Advanced Structures & Composites Center

Research Area:  Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency

Publications:

Title	Publication Date	Publication Name	Author(s)	Research Area(s)	Keywords
Toolbox created for efficient towing of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines	2025	Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering	Verma, Amrit Viselli, Anthony Allen, Christopher Davis, Samuel	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency	dynamics of structures floating offshore wind turbines fluid-structure interaction maintenance marine operations ocean energy technology ocean waves and associated statistics offshore safety and reliability operations
A Floating Offshore Wind Toolbox for Planning of Towing Operations: Validation and Application to the University of Maine’s VolturnUS Design	2025	Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering	Davis, Samuel Verma, Amrit Viselli, Anthony Allen, Christopher	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency	dynamics of structures fluid-structure interaction ocean energy technology ocean waves and associated statistics offshore safety and reliability probabilistic model of forces and motions wave mechanics and wave effects
Uncertainty-Guided Prediction Limits of Phase-Resolved Ocean Wave Forecasting under Data Sparsity: Experimental and Numerical Evaluation	2025		Alkarem, Yuksel Huguenard, Kimberly Richard Kimball, Stephan Grilli	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency	data masking digital twin dynamic prediction horizon floating sensors LSTM machine learning offshore monitoring phase shift TiDE model uncertainty quantification
Design and Demonstration of a Nylon Semi-Taut Mooring System for a 225-kW Floating Wind Turbine off the Coast of Maine	2025	Offshore Technology Conference	Ward, Jacob S. T. Hallowell C. K. Allen Viselli, Anthony C. Karakus P. Foxton L. Bello	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency	american bureau geologist geology maine mooring system social responsibility subsea system sustainability sustainable development wind turbine
Characterizing Turbulence in the Background Flow and Wake of a Stationary Porous Disk: A Two-phase Wind Tunnel Study Under Dry Conditions	2024	Bulletin of the American Physical Society	Verma, Amrit Codjo, Aenor Bay, Tristan Kuzmenko, Hlib EShukuru, Emmanuel Goupee, Andrew.	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency
Tower Top Motion of a Bottom-Fixed Offshore Wind Turbine in the Hammerhead Configuration: Root Causes and System Identification Tests	2024	Bulletin of the American Physical Society	Bhaskaran, Saravanan Kruse, Max Goupee, Andrew Verma, Amrit	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency
Design and Deployment of a Floating Porous Screen Breakwater in a Mesotidal Environment	2024	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	Lieberthal, Brandon Richard Perry Younce, Elizabeth Hanley, Liam Bryant, Mary Huguenard, Kimberly	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency
Exploiting the Properties of Non-Wood Feedstocks to Produce Tailorable Lignin-Containing Cellulose Nanofibers	2024	Polymers	Lamm, Megan Johnson, Donna Copenhaver, Katie Bhagia, Samarthya Hubbard, Amber Walker, Collen Doyle,Kevin Ozcen, Soyden	Additive Manufacturing Composite Testing Diatoms Engineering Education Environmental Analysis Food Packaging Industry 4.0 inflatable structures Maine Climate Change Material Development & Characterization Nanocellulose Nanocomposites Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency Research & Development Management Smart Materials & Textiles Structural Testing Thermoplastics Transportation Infrastrucutre Durability Water Carcinogens Wood Composites	agricultural residue bleached softwood kraft pulp (BSKP) flax hemp lignin-containing cellulose nanofibrils (LCNFs) non-wood feedstock wheat straw
Molecular-level design of alternative media for energy-saving pilot-scale fibrillation of nanocellulose	2024	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	Liu, Shih-Hsien Rukmani, Shalini Mohan, Mood Yu, Yan Vural, Derya Johnson, Donna Copenhaver, Katie Bhagia, Samarthya Lamm, Meghan Li, Kai Chen, Jihua Goswami, Monojoy Smith, Micholas Petridis, Loukas Ozcan, Soydan Smith, Jeremy	Additive Manufacturing Composite Testing Diatoms Engineering Education Environmental Analysis Industry 4.0 inflatable structures Maine Climate Change Material Development & Characterization Mechanical Engineering Pedagogy Nanocellulose Nanocomposites Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency Research & Development Management Smart Materials & Textiles Structural Testing Thermoplastics Transportation Infrastrucutre Durability Water Carcinogens Wood Composites
A Toolbox for Towing Dynamics Predictions for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Validation and Parametric Study	2024	Proceedings of International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering	Davis, Samuel Verma, Amrit Viselli, Anthony Allen, Christopher	Offshore Wind & Coastal Resiliency	Design Dynamics (Mechanics) Floating wind turbines Matlab Ocean Engineering Propellers Safety Seas Tension Waves Wind