Yang Yang, male, born in August 1992 at Jiangxi, China. He obtained his Engineering Bachelor degree from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) in 2013. From 2013, he studied in USST for further research and obtained his PhD degree in April 2020. His current research interests include aero-hydro coupled modeling of offshore wind turbines and the corresponding structural control.

He visited Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) for one year in 2017 under the financial support from China Scholarship Council. During his visit period in LJMU, he was employed as a post-doctoral research associate to be involved in the ARCWIND project, focusing on the research with a topic of structural health monitoring of 10 MW floating offshore wind turbines funded by Interreg/ERDF. He started the position in October 2018 following the completion of CSC funding until the present.

In his post-graduate study, he has published 22 academic papers as the first author on reputable journals including Renewable Energy, Ocean Engineering and Wind Energy. In addition, he was authorized the copyright of a software package named SAF that is a seismic analysis framework for offshore wind turbines.

Sept. 2015 ~ April  2020 University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) Ph.D

Major: Seismic analysis of offshore wind turbines

Oct. 2017 ~ Oct. 2018 Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) Visiting Scholar (CSC funded)

Subject: Mitigation of seismic responses of offshore wind turbines

Sept. 2013 ~ Aug. 2015 University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) MSc candidate

Major: Blade design and dynamic modelling of wind turbines

Sept. 2009 ~ Jun. 2013 University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) BSc

Major: Power Machinery and Engineering

Oct. 2018 ~ Present Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) Post-Doctoral Research Associate    Under the supervision of Dr. Musa Bashir and Professor Jin Wang

Responsibilities 1) Development of a fully coupled tool for a multi-body floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT);

2) Development of the controller of the FOWT considering the platform motion feedback;

3) Identification of damage hotspots of the FOWT;

4) Development of a damage diagnosis approach for the FOWT.

Seismic behavior of wind turbines; Coupled modelling of offshore wind turbines; Aero-elasticity of wind turbines; Modelling of nonlinear dynamics of integrated floating offshore renewable energy systems; Structural health monitoring of offshore wind turbines;

1. Optimization for the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades. 

Project category: Innovation Project of Shanghai for Postgraduates. (JWCXSL1402, CNY: 8,000)

Role: PI.

Responsibilities: 1) Preliminary design of the aerodynamic shape of wind turbine blades based on Wilson theory;

2) Optimization design of wind turbine blades based on multi-objective genetic algorithm.

2. Adaptation and implementation of floating wind energy conversion technology for the Atlantic region

Project category: EU-Interreg project. (Reference No. EAPA_344/2016, EUR: 3,920,146)

Role: Participant.

Responsibilities: 1) Fully-coupled analysis of a two-body novel floating platform supporting a 10 MW wind turbine;

2) Development of an interface between AQWA and AeroDyn for performing dynamic analysis

3) Development of a controller considering platform motion feedback;

4) Identification of structural damage using the multi-scale convolutional neural network approach.

3. Investigation on the flow control mechanism of self-adaptive flexible blades for VAWTs mechanism

Project category: Natural Science Foundation of China. (Reference No. 51676131, CNY: 600,000)

Role: Investigator.

Responsibilities: 1) Evaluation of the aerodynamic performance of vertical axis wind turbines using CFD technique.

2) Investigation of active flow control of a flapped VAWT.

4. Research on vibration characteristics of “Sodium Pump” in secondary circuit main cycle

Project category: Technical support project provided by Shanghai Apollo Machinery Co. Ltd.

Role: Investigator.

Responsibility: Structural analysis of Na pumps using ANSYS tool.

5. Coupling mechanism and decoupling algorithm of aero-elastic and hydro-dynamics for offshore floating wind turbines in deep sea

Project category: Natural Science Foundation of China. (Reference No. 51176129, CNY: 600,000)

Role: Investigator.

Responsibility: Analysis of structural dynamic responses of wind turbines under coupled conditions;

6. Resilience design of offshore wind systems against extreme events

Project category: Natural Science Foundation of China. (Reference No. 51811530315, CNY: 100,000)

Role: Investigator.

Responsibilities: 1) Implementation of seismic analysis capacity of FAST

2) Coupled analysis of offshore wind turbines under earthquake loadings;

3) Passive control of offshore wind turbines subjected to earthquakes.

7. Investigation on Seismic Damage Prevention Mechanism of Offshore Wind Turbine Towers Based on Bionics and Fractal Theory turbines in deep sea

Project category: Natural Science Foundation of China. (Reference No. 51976131, CNY: 580,000)

Role: Investigator.

Responsibility: Analysis of structural dynamic responses of wind turbines under coupled conditions;

[1] Yang Yang, Musa Bashir, Chun Li, et al. Mitigation of coupled wind-wave-earthquake responses of a 10 MW fixed-bottom offshore wind turbine [J]. Renewable Energy, 2020, accepted. (SCI, 中科院一区，JCR Q1)

[2] Yang Yang, Musa Bashir, Jin Wang, et al. Wind-wave coupling effect on the fatigue damage of tendons for a 10 MW multi-body floating offshore wind turbine [J]. Ocean Engineering, 2020, accepted. (SCI, 中科院一区, JCR Q1)

[3] Yang Yang, Musa Bashir, Chun Li, et al. Analysis of seismic behaviour of an offshore wind turbine with a flexible foundation [J]. Ocean Engineering, 2019, 1781(7): 215-228. (SCI, 中科院一区, JCR Q1, WOS: 000464483700017).

[4] Yang Yang, Chun Li, Musa Bashir, et al. Investigation on the sensitivity of flexible foundation models of an offshore wind turbine under earthquake loadings [J]. Engineering Structures, 2019, 183(5): 756-769. (SCI, 中科院二区, JCR Q1, WOS: WOS:000462690000054).

[5] Yang Yang, Kehua Ye, Chun Li, et al. Dynamic behavior of wind turbines influenced by aerodynamic damping and earthquake intensity [J]. Wind Energy, 2018, 21(5): 303-319. (SCI, 中科院二区, JCR Q1, WOS:000430134000002)

[6] Yang Yang, Chun Li, Wanfu Zhang, et al. A multi-objective optimization for HAWT blades design by considering structural strength [J]. Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 2016, 30(8): 3693-3703. (SCI, WOS: 000382138000030).

[7] Yang Yang, Chun Li, Wanfu Zhang, et al. Investigation on aerodynamics and active flow control of a vertical axis wind turbine with flapped airfoil [J]. Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 2017, 31(4): 1645-1655. (SCI, WOS: 000399821100012).

[8] Yang Yang, Chun Li, Musa Bashir, et al. Seismic analysis of a 10 MW offshore wind turbine with a monopile[C]. //7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Bangkok, 2018.

[9] Yang Yang, Chun Li, Musa Bashir, et al. Analysis of the dynamic behaviour of 10 MW bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines[C]. //3rd International Conference on Offshore Renewable Energy, Glasgow, 2018.

1. A double flapped blade for vertical axis wind turbine. Publication Number: CN104265561, China.

2. A vertical axis wind turbine with adaptive flapping blade. Publication Number: CN105840428, China.

3. A generic seismic analysis tool of offshore wind turbines (SAF). 2019SR0646580.

4. A fractal tower for vertical axis wind turbine. Publication Number: CN106321366, China.

5. A vertical axis wind turbine with an adaptive pitching blade. Publication Number: CN205578183, China.

6. A wind turbine blade with edge flap. Publication Number: CN104989591, China.

7. An offshore device for generating electricity. Publication Number: CN103925159, China.

8. A tower designed using fractal theory for horizontal axis wind turbines. Publication Number: CN106351802, China.

9. Heating and cooling system drove by wind and solar energy. Publication Number: CN103822322, China.

1. 2017 Chinese Government Scholarship for abroad study sponsored by the China Scholarship Council. 

2. 2016 Second outstanding student of Shanghai Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

3. 2016 Best prize in an invitational tournament for “academic star” in Yangtze River Delta region of China.

4. 2016 Best prize, Annual award for excellent postgraduate research in SEPE of USST.

5. 2016 The Talent award supported by BOTH engineering.

6. 2015 Best prize, Annual award for excellent postgraduates in SEPE of USST.

7. 2015 Third best prize, National Postgraduate Mathematics Contest in Modeling

8. 2014 National scholarship for postgraduate.

9. 2014 Outstanding student of USST.

10. 2014 Outstanding league member of USST.

Email: yangyangusst@gmail.com

Address: Jungong Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China.