DEVELOPMENT ANDOPTIMISATION OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVICES AT LOW TO MID TRLs USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELS.

Josh Davidson was born in is from Townsville, Australia, where he studied at James Cook University, where he earned a first class honors degree and a Ph.D. from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences. He served as Deputy Director at the Center for Ocean Energy Research (COER), University of Maynooth, Ireland, working on nonlinear hydrodynamic modeling and control of wave energy converters and the development of numerical wave tanks based on the computational fluid dynamics. He was Chairman of the International Network for Offshore Renewable Energies (INORE) Committee. He is currently a researcher at the Department of Fluid Mechanics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics supported by an EU grant for the project Nonlinear Rock and Roll-Modeling and Control of Parametric Resonance in Wave Energy Converters.