N0MES PGRs’ co-designed and challenge-led projects are addressing the four aforementioned thematic challenges, while developing their skills in one or more of five science and engineering focus areas:
- Net zero energy generation, storage infrastructure design and location (e.g. offshore wind and tidal generation, floating solar, installation and design; interactions between facilities and their surroundings; shore-to-ship power; alternative motive power solutions)
- Numerical and computational modelling and simulation, visualisation, algorithm development, and supercomputing, including the use of digital twins to improve understanding of processes and operations
- Data analytics and artificial intelligence
- Planning, permitting and the environmental impacts of such developments and decommissioning both locally and nationally
- Optimisation of installations and operations, linking logistics with safe operation of facilities
N0MES will equip its PGRs with core engineering and disciplinary expertise. N0MES PGRs will achieve excellence in their domain and cultivate their creativity to push beyond their area of expertise (Frontiers in Engineering and Technology), whilst honing their ability to advance the solutions-focused, systems-thinking approaches demanded by the decarbonisation challenge.
Inspired by the challenges of harnessing renewable energy and by observations that contemporary engineering often involves the over-design of assets to resist the forces of nature (Engineering Net Zero – building a net zero future), N0MES uses a fundamental understanding of nature as the basis for design to fill knowledge and skills gaps in marine, structural, electrical and geotechnical engineering, marine archaeology, nature-based solutions, statistics and data processing and analysis, AI & digitalisation and data, transport optimisation and automation.
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