At a Crosswind: Could hybrid substructures redefine βfloatingβ offshore wind in the UK?
#FOW is one of the most exciting opportunities in the energy transition but it's not without its challenges.
Our latest blog explores the idea of hybrid technology, an emerging concept which could bridge the gap between fixed and #floating.
ore.catapult.org.uk/resource-hub...
05.09.2025 15:24 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Boundary control systems on a one-dimension spatial domain - new paper co-authored by #ModConFlex researcher Bouchra Elghazi:
The paper studies when mathematical models of flexible structures with control at their boundaries are well posed.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.01634
#HamiltonianSystems
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19.01.2026 11:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#ModConFlex researcher Qian Liu recently co-authored a paper in #IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
#gridforming #IBR #powersystem #powerelectronics #renewables #stability #protection #relay
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08.12.2025 09:03 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Currently, #MSCA researcher Ignacio Diaz is visiting Wuppertal. We present his simulation: an energy preserving #PortHamiltonian system. It could be interpreted as an example for a wing of a plane / a floating platform.
#PortHamiltonian #simulation
#discretization #flexibleMechanics
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04.12.2025 14:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
During science night, #MSCA researcher Albert Alcalde presented an interactive web app on Sentiment Analysis with Transformers, which lets visitors type any sentence and instantly see whether it expresses a positive or negative sentiment.
The App: albertalcalde.github.io/SentimentAna...
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18.11.2025 08:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#ModConFlex' third Network Meeting took place at BesanΓ§on (France).
The meeting started with the project management meeting, followed by the 13 Ph.D. students presentations - and one presentation prize. Followed by several days of scientific and complementary teaching.
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29.10.2025 10:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
How does AI know how you feel?
Join our ModConFlex members Albert Alcalde and Giovanni Fantuzzi at Erlangen's Long Night of Science on 25 October to find out!
For more details, see the event's webpage:
nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/sentime...
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09.10.2025 12:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Text: Sentiment analysis with Transformers in action. Logos of EU and ModConFlex. Date and time of event: Sat, 25.Oct, 17:00-24:00.
How does AI know how you feel?
Join our ModConFlex members Albert Alcalde and Giovanni Fantuzzi at Erlangen's Long Night of Science on 25 October to find out!
For more details, see the event's webpage:
nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/sentime...
#horizonEU
09.10.2025 12:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Usually, #ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau works at the University of Bordeaux.
Currently, he is spending two months at the University of Wuppertal.
On Wednesday, he presented his research on floating objects to the Work Group.
#horizonEU
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25.09.2025 12:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βChina Is the Engineβ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says
"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."
09.09.2025 07:23 β π 508 π 174 π¬ 8 π 16
#ModConFlex researcher Alan Valadez presented his work on
βEnhancing Grid Stability with Synchronverter-Based Control for Grid-Side Converters in Wind Power Systemsβ
at ECCE Europe 2025 (Birmingham).
#HorizonEU
#WindPower
#SyntheticInertia
#GridForming
#PowerElectronics
#OffshoreWind
08.09.2025 14:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New method to model the complex, flexible motion of aircraft wings.
M. A. Sinani, R. Palacios and A. Wynn: "Physics-Informed Data-Driven Modelling of Nonlinear Aerodynamic Forces of the Pazy Wing", 2025, AIAA SciTech Forum, 6-10 January, Orlando
#machineLearning
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06.08.2025 08:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to Marius Tucsnak, who received the W.T. and Idalia Reid prize at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMs Annual Meeting last week:
www.siam.org/publications...
Marius Tucsnak is the ModConFlex Consortium member @univbordeaux.bsky.social
04.08.2025 07:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tonight, #ModConFlex will be on TV!
A few weeks ago, a small team from regional TV passed by @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social to meet with our coordinator and one of the PhD students. In 2 days here:
www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/loka... (in German, though - we will translate in a few days).
#HorizonEU
17.07.2025 15:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
#ModConFlex researcher Mario Sinani co-authored
"Capturing & Bounding Nonlinear Modal Energy Transfer for Geometrically Exact Beams using Semi-Definite Programming"
css.paperplaza.net/images/temp/...
#nonlinearStructuralDynamics #aeroelastics
30.06.2025 08:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Last week, several #ModConFlex researchers presented at the 5th IFAC Workshop - CDPE 2025 - at Beijing. A group of 8 from the project attended
Ignacio Diaz and Bouchra Elghazi were on the shortlist for the Young Author Award and Bouchra even won the prize in the end. Congratulations!
#HorizonEU
23.06.2025 12:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
CPDE 2025 Program | Wednesday June 18, 2025
On Wednesday afternoon several of our #MSCA project's researchers present at the "Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures" session at the
5th IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE 2025)
ifac.papercept.net/conferences/...
#ModConFlex
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16.06.2025 09:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hybrid SchrΓΆdinger-Liouville and projective dynamics
Quantum dynamics provides the arguably most fundamental example of hybrid dynamics: As long as no measurement takes place, the system state is governed by the SchrΓΆdinger-Liouville differential equati...
Hybrid SchrΓΆdinger-Liouville and projective dynamics:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.05532
Presentation at cpde2025.bjut.edu.cn (Beijing) this week by #ModConFlex researcher Kaja KrhaΔ.
There is a special session on Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures with several other of our #MSCA PhD students.
16.06.2025 09:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Discussion with group in the lab.
Prof. Weiss, his two ModConFlex PhD students (left and rightmost) and an additional scientist.
#ModcConFlex researcher Maddalen Irigoien and Prof. George Weiss from Tel Aviv University visited #MSCA project colleague Alan Valadez during his stay at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Many thanks to the "Real Time Systems for Energy Technologies" group at KIT:
www.itep.kit.edu/rtset/english/
03.06.2025 08:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Some equations from the paper
New paper by #ModConFlex researcher Zhuo Xu on the robustness of a fluid-particle interaction system.
"A distinctive feature, not yet considered in the ISS literature, is that our system involves a free boundary..."
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08393
#PDE
#MSCA
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27.05.2025 08:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Two photos: Bouchra Elghazi explaining control theory by balancing a pen in her hand and Birgit Jacob talking about a career in mathematics to students from different schools. Photographer: Luka Storms (BUW)
At the 2025 #GirlsDay #MSCA researcher Bouchra Elghazi explained the idea behind her mathematical research with a pen - balancing it on her palm and talking about dynamical systems and controls in a very illustrative way.
The 15 students from different schools also met with professor Birgit Jacob.
14.05.2025 07:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Figure 1 from "On an Initial Value Problem Describing the Small Oscillations of a Floating Cylinder"
#ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau co-authored a study of small oscillations of a floating cylinder:
#existence, #uniqueness and #regularity results for the #solutions of the governing #equations.
arxiv.org/abs/2504.20523
#wellposedness
#waterwaves
#floatingbodies
#floatingWindTurbines
12.05.2025 07:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Continue operation or replace? The BAM tool is designed to help wind farm operators make the best decision for their turbines. - Copyright BAM
Digital tool to optimize the use of older wind turbines
Berlin, 09.04.2025 β The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is developing a digital tool to help wind farm operators decide whether to continue operating older win...
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09.04.2025 08:41 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Several PhD students and supervisors from the #ModConflex #EUhorizon #MSCA project met - and presented - at the Spring School on Theory and Applications of Port-Hamiltonian Systems (PHS2025) last week.
For program details and some more photos, see www.epc.ed.tum.de/rt/phs2025/
03.04.2025 12:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Paper on global #exponential #stabilization (including the position of the particle) for fluid-particle interaction system: design of a PD control acting on the particle.
by #ModConFlex researcher Zhuo Xu and Marius Tucsnak.
#globalStabilization
#globalWellPosedness
arxiv.org/abs/2501.11446
31.03.2025 14:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Small-signal synchronization stability of sequence-decomposed grid-forming IBRs - WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal
"Small-signal synchronization stability of sequence-decomposed grid-forming IBRs" by #ModConFlex researcher Qian Liu:
open:
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/18...
IEEE:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/107...
#GridForming
#PowerSystemStability #InverterBasedResources #BatteryEnergyStorageSystems
25.02.2025 09:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
EU flag with text "funded by the European Union" and ModConFlex logo
As of today, we have 12 papers by #ModConFlex researchers on our website.
That is on average one paper every two months since the start of our #MSCA project - great. Thanks to everyone for their contribution!
modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/publicati...
#HorizonEU
12.02.2025 09:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx
11.02.2025 17:10 β π 722 π 180 π¬ 10 π 29
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