Adi Kurniawan

Adi Kurniawan is a research fellow with the Marine Energy Research Australia (MERA), The University of Western Australia (UWA). His research covers aspects of wave energy conversion, wave-structure interactions, and multi-objective optimisation. He has numerically modelled a variety of wave energy converters (WECs) and is deeply interested in how geometry and motion influence wave absorption. Adi obtained his PhD in Marine Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Before joining UWA, he worked at Aalborg University, Denmark, and the University of Plymouth, UK. Adi is the co-author of Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems: Linear Interactions Including Wave-Energy Extraction (2nd edition). He is a member of the Standards Australia Committee EL-066 on Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters.

Education/Academic qualification

Marine Technology, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2009 → 2013 Award Date: 23 Apr 2013

Civil and Environmental Engineering, MEng, Nanyang Technological University 2004 → 2006 Award Date: 9 Feb 2007

Civil and Environmental Engineering, BEng, Nanyang Technological University 2000 → 2003 Award Date: 24 Jan 2004

Roles and responsibilities

Adi is a research fellow with the Marine Energy Research Australia in the Great Southern Marine Research Facility (GSMRF) in Albany, where he conducts research and supervision on wave energy. He is part of the Oceans Graduate School, which conducts research across the fields of oceanography, hydrodynamics, offshore geotechnics, coastal engineering, marine geoscience, and ecology.

Research

Recent and ongoing research include

• Compressible and flexible wave energy devices
• Deterministic wave-by-wave prediction in unidirectional and multidirectional seas
• Simplified modelling of parametric resonance in wave energy converters
• Development of new metric for comparison of wave energy converters
• Multi-objective optimisation of arrays of wave energy converters
• Modelling and optimisation of articulated wave energy converters
• Characterisation of Albany wave climate using buoy data

Research interests

• Wave-structure interactions
• Wave energy conversion
• Multi-objective optimisation