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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">We have a PhD opportunity available in<b> Offshore Windfarm Array Scale Sediment Transport Dynamics </b>through The Aura Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore
Wind Energy and the Environment. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">The Aura CDT is led by the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull with academic partners Durham, Newcastle and Sheffield Universities and over
20 Industry partners. Working closely with Siemens Gamesa and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the Aura CDT has developed <b>industry sponsored scholarships</b> that directly address a challenge facing the offshore wind energy sector. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">The Aura CDT invites applications for this fully funded, 4-year PhD scholarship. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">Project overview:</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">Future offshore wind farm (OWF) arrays will be built further from shore. As a result, there is a need to advance both planning and design of foundations and electrical
infrastructure to cope with greater depths, and more extensive exposure in the hostile marine environment. Built OWF array configurations are not optimised for the different predominant hydrodynamic conditions and large-scale, long-term sediment transport
processes at future development sites. Therefore, different optimal design concepts to those adopted for current sites might be needed.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">Little is known about array-scale longshore and cross-shore sediment transport budgets, sediment mobility and increased turbidity effects in OWFs in the UK and emerging
markets. Moreover, by 2034, up to 1,000 turbines in UK windfarms will reach the end of their design life, requiring decommissioning work, which will trigger seabed instabilities and modify sediment transport fluxes.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">This PhD will explore the following research questions:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(28, 52, 94);"></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">How are the flow and sediment transport processes in future OSW sites different to those in current sites?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(28, 52, 94);"></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">How would current array configurations modify those conditions? What are the potential impacts to array scale seabed dynamics?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;"></span>How can current cable installation be modified to facilitate site decommissioning and future repurposing?</li></ul>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;">The post is available from September 2021 as a full-time position. You will join Cohort 3 of the Aura CDT in Hull, in the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary – the global
centre for research, innovation and development for the sector. Initially, you will study for a Postgraduate Diploma in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment, followed by a 3-year PhD supported by ORE Catapult.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;"><b>For questions about the project please email me directly (R.Fernandez@hull.ac.uk). </b>For questions about the Aura CDT please email auracdt@hull.ac.uk.</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
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more details on the CDT and here </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><a href="https://aura-innovation.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk240928" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: black;">https://aura-innovation.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;"> on
our wider work facing the sector.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
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