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Contact

University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of mechanical Engineering
Ship Technology and Ocean Engineering
Bismarckstraße 69, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
E-Mail: simon.mewes[at]uni-due.de

CV

• Present Positions
  Since 2017 PhD student at University of Duisburg-Essen
   
• Professional Activities
  Member: International Network on Offshore Renewable Energy (INORE)
  Reviewer: OMAE, Ocean Engineering, IOWTC, IJCM
   
• Past Positions
  2017 - 2020       Secretary of INORE
  2015                   Secondment to WavEC – Offshore Renewables
  2014 - 2017       Early Stage Researcher at MARIN
  2013                   Internship at MARIN
  2012                   Internship at MARIN
   
• Education
  2011 - 2014       M.Sc Maritime Engineering at University of Duisburg-Essen
  2011                   ERASMUS Exchange semester at NTNU
  2007 - 2011       B.Sc Mechanical Engineering at University of Duisburg-Essen

Teaching

• Exercises: CFD for incompressible flows 2

Publications

Journal publications (peer-review)

• Burmester, S., Vaz, G., el Moctar, O.
  Towards credible CFD simulations for floating offshore wind turbines.
  Ocean Engineering, 209, 107237, 2020.
   
• Burmester, S., Vaz, G., Gueydon, S., el Moctar, O.
  Investigation of a semi-submersible floating wind turbine in surge decay using CFD.
  Ship Technology Research, 67(1), 2-14, 2020 (online 2018).
• Burmester, S., Gueydon, S., Make, M.
  Determination of scaled wind turbine rotor characteristics from three-dimensional RANS calculations.
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 753(8), 2016.
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Conference publications (peer-review)

• Wang, Y., Chen, H-C., Vaz, G., Mewes, S.
  Verification Study of CFD simulation of Semi-Submersible Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Under Regular Waves.
  Proc. of the 3^rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. IOWTC2020-3558. Boston, MA, USA. 2020.
• Burmester, S., Vaz, G., el Moctar, O., Gueydon, S., Koop, A., Wang, Y., Chen, H-C.
  High-Fidelity Modelling of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Platforms.
  Proc. of the 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering. OMAE2020-18913. Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 2020.
• Wang, Y., Chen, H-C., Vaz, G., Burmester, S.
  CFD simulation of semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine under pitch decay motion.
  Proc. Of the 2^nd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. IOWTC2019-7515. St. Julian’s, Malta. 2019.
• Burmester, S., de Ridder, E-J., Wehmeyer, C., Asp, E., Gujer, P.
  Comparing different approaches for calculating wave impacts on a monopile turbine foundation.
  Proc. of the 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering. OMAE2017-61182. Trondheim, Norway. 2017.
• Burmester, S., Guerinel, M.
  Calculations of Wave Loads on a Vertical Cylinder Using potential-flow and viscous-flow solvers.
  Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering. OMAE2016-54467. Busan, Korea. 2016.
• Make, M., Vaz, G., Fernandes, G., Burmester, S., Gueydon, S.
  Analysis of aerodynamic performance of floating wind turbines using CFD and BEMT methods. Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering.
  OMAE2015-42086. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. 2015.

Conference publications

• Burmester, S., Gueydon, S., Vaz, G., el Moctar, O.
  Surge decay simulations of a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine.
  Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS). Wageningen, The Netherlands. 2017

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