Deborah Greaves

Deborah Greaves
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (BEng)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (DPhil)
AwardsOBE (2018)
FREng (2020)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Bath
University of Plymouth
ThesisNumerical modelling of laminar separated flows and inviscid steep waves using adaptive hierarchical meshes (1995)

Deborah Mary Greaves (born March 1967) is a British engineer, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Head of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[1]

Early life and education

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Greaves studied civil engineering at the University of Bristol. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1988 and started work as a civil engineer.[2] In 1992 Greaves returned to academia, and moved to St Edmund Hall, Oxford for her doctoral studies.[3] Her doctoral research considered the numerical modelling of fluid flows, and she graduated in 1998.[3]

Career

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After earning her doctoral degree Greaves joined University College London as a lecturer in mechanical engineering.[4] In 2002 Greaves joined the University of Bath as a lecturer in architecture and civil engineering. She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Here she investigated the impact of wind on fabric in an effort to design new materials to cover large open spaces.[5]

In 2008 Greaves moved to the University of Plymouth. Greaves studies offshore renewable energy as well as creating numerical models of wave-structure interactions.[6] At the University of Plymouth she serves as Head of School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics. Here she led the €2 million European Commission project Streamlining of Ocean Wave Farm Impacts Assessment (SOWFIA), which looked at the development of wave farms in European countries.[7] SOWFIA considered several Wave Energy Converters in an attempt to improve expertise of large scale energy projects.[7] An outcome of SOWFIA was a catalogue of wave energy test sites,[8] as well as several workshops and reports on the environmental risks and benefits associated with the use of wave energy.[7] She leads the Collaborative Computational Project in Wave Structure Interaction (CCP-WSI), a project which develops wave tank codes for tackling challenges that arise from complex wave-structure interactions.[6][9]

Greaves is director of the Sustainable PowER GENeration and supply (Supergen) Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub, which researches several renewable energy technologies.[10][11] Supergen ORE is a £9 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project that looks at future challenges for renewable energy sources and looks at how the offshore energy distribution system will need to be transformed in the future.[12][13][14] She had developed the University of Plymouth Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory which looks at marine energy devices and environmental impact modelling.[15]

Academic service

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Greaves is the chair of the board of the Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE)[16][17] and Directs the Supergen ORE Hub.[18][19] She serves on the Carbon Trust Advisory Board She is a Fellow of the Women's Engineering Society and the Institution of Civil Engineers as well as serving as an expert advisor for the United Nations. She was shortlisted for the WISE Campaign Research Award in 2014.[20] In 2018 Greaves was awarded an Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her services to marine engineering, equality and higher education.[21][22]

Selected publications

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  • Greaves, Deborah (2018). Wave and Tidal Energy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119014454.
  • Greaves, Deborah (2012). "Air–water two-phase flow modelling of hydrodynamic performance of an oscillating water column device". Renewable Energy. 41: 159–170. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2011.10.011.
  • Greaves, Deborah (1999). "Hierarchical tree‐based finite element mesh generation". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 45 (4): 447–471. Bibcode:1999IJNME..45..447G. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990610)45:4<447::AID-NME592>3.0.CO;2-#.
  • Greaves, Deborah (2005). "Simulation of viscous water column collapse using adapting hierarchical grids". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 50 (6): 693–711. doi:10.1002/fld.1073. S2CID 124488159.

Greaves is on the editorial board of Engineering and Computational Mechanics[23] and the International Journal for Marine Energy.

References

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  1. ^ "New Fellows 2020". Royal Academy of Engineering. 21 September 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  2. ^ Bristol, University of. "2018: Major conference to address challenges in the marine energy sector | Cabot Institute for the Environment | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Deborah Mary Greaves — Civil Engineering Research". www2.eng.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  4. ^ "PRIMaRE Steering Committee The Partnership for Research in Marine Renewable Energy". www.primare.org. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  5. ^ "REF Case study search". impact.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  6. ^ a b Maps, University of Plymouth Drake Circus Plymouth Devon PL4 8AA United Kingdom +44 1752 600600; vacancies, directions Visit us Job. "Professor Deborah Greaves, OBE". University of Plymouth. Retrieved 9 November 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ a b c "Streamlining of Ocean Wave Farm Impacts Assessment - Intelligent Energy Europe - European Commission". Intelligent Energy Europe. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  8. ^ "SOWFIA Data Management Platform". sowfia.hidromod.com. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Welcome to CCP-WSI | CCP-WSI". www.ccp-wsi.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  10. ^ "ORE SuperGen Leader Deborah Greaves". gow.epsrc.ukri.org. EPSRC. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Southampton at heart of investment to keep UK as global leader in offshore renewables | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  12. ^ Bush, Steve (26 July 2018). "EPSRC puts £16m into low-carbon research". Electronics Weekly. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  13. ^ Maps, University of Plymouth Drake Circus Plymouth Devon PL4 8AA United Kingdom +44 1752 600600; vacancies, directions Visit us Job. "Supergen ORE Hub". University of Plymouth. Retrieved 9 November 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Supergen ORE Hub Boosts Renewables R&D with £1M Funding". Marine Energy. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Professor Deborah Greaves OBE - University of Plymouth". www.plymouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  16. ^ "PRIMaRE Home The Partnership for Research in Marine Renewable Energy". www.primare.org. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  17. ^ "Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE)". UKRI. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  18. ^ "Our Co-Directors - Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub". www.supergen-ore.net. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  19. ^ "News | New £1m solar research network will be led by Loughborough University | CREST | Loughborough University". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  20. ^ "2014 WISE Awards in association with Bloomberg". Welcome to the WISE Campaign. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  21. ^ "Deborah GREAVES". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  22. ^ Freeman, Martin (9 June 2018). "The unsung Plymouth heroes on Queen's Birthday Honours list". plymouthherald. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  23. ^ "ICE Virtual Library". www.icevirtuallibrary.com. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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