Sithik Aliyar
PhD Candidate, Department of Wind and Energy Systems
Research scholar specializing in Wind Turbine Design and Ocean Engineering. My work focuses on high-fidelity numerical simulations (CFD), wave-structure interaction, and robust algorithms for floating body dynamics. I contribute to the development of offshore wind energy solutions through innovative coupling strategies and experimental validation.
EXPERTISE
- - CFD & OpenFOAM
- - Fluid-Structure Interaction
- - Offshore Wind Turbines
- - Hydrodynamics
- - SPAR Type Platforms
- - Numerical Coupling (HOS)
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COUNTRIES TRAVELED
Denmark, France, India, Germany, Norway, USA, Spain
COLLABORATIONS
DTU, Centrale Nantes, IIT Madras, LUH Hannover
Academic Publications
2025
Numerical coupling strategy using HOS-OpenFOAM-MoorDyn for OC3 Hywind SPAR type platform
2025
Directional focused wave group response of a floating wind turbine
2025
CFD Modeling of Heave Plate motions in Irregular Waves
2024
A robust algorithm for computational floating body dynamics
2024
Robust CFD analysis of floating wind turbine wave responses
2024
The effect of directional spreading on extreme sea state response
2023
Upending of SPAR type wind turbines in waves
2022
Efficiency and accuracy of decomposition strategies for wave-interaction
2022
Breaking focused wave interaction with cylinder using HOS-OpenFOAM
2022
Extreme wave interaction with fixed and floating structures
2021
Nonlinear interaction between focusing wave and cylinder using state-of-the-art solvers
2021