Emma Edwards

Emma's research interests are centered around offshore renewable energy. She has particular interests in wave-structure interaction of floating bodies, with applications to wave energy and floating offshore wind. Emma has a particular interest in the effect of geometry of a floating body on wave-structure interaction, and the resulting performance of offshore renewable energy devices. She is a fluid dynamists with research expertise in analytical, numerical and physical modelling. Emma's PhD at MIT focused on semi-analytical research on floating Wave Energy Converters (WECs), optimising geometry to maximise power and minimise cost. She continues to work in this area today. She also works on multiple aspects of floating offshore wind: she performed a review of floating offshore wind platform designs, and she works in numerical and experimental modelling of floating offshore wind. She collaborates with colleagues at MIT and the University of Plymouth.

Scaled Physical Modelling of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Using a Neural Network‐Based Surrogate Model for Aerodynamic Emulation Edwards EC, Barbour E, Tosdevin T, Ransley E, Monk K et al. (2025), Wind Energy, 28(10) Low fidelity modeling for the prediction of long-term floating offshore wind turbine performance Hardin J, Zilic de Arcos F, Adcock T & Edwards E (2025) Experimental–numerical model comparison of a dynamic power cable for a floating offshore wind turbine Holcombe A, Hann M, Brown S, Cheng S, Rawlinson-Smith R et al. (2025), Ocean Engineering, 321, 120384 Modelling the hydrodynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine – a comparative study Yu S, Ransley E, Qian L, Zhou Y, Brown S et al. (2025), Applied Ocean Research, 155, 104441-104441 Optimisation of the ge