想象一下，世界上一半的电力是通过海上风电场可再生产生的世界。现在想象一个强大的飓风，击中该农场的海岸。如果开发人员，工程师和政策制定者尚未为此活动做好准备，海岸可能会面临诸如停电和褐火之类的主要后果。这是一场苏美拉姆·阿默斯特（Umass Amherst）的公民和环境工程教授的一个情况，正在努力防范海上风在美国市场变得更加突出。
“海上风是美国的巨大机会，特别是在东海岸......但沿着美国东海岸，有飓风风险，我们知道如何模拟和减轻的问题。arwade说，这只是将采取研究工作来确保我们做出正确的发展。“
UMass Amherst has the necessary tools and experts to take on the research problems posed by offshore wind. The campus is home to the Wind Energy Center (WEC), where much of these risk assessments are studied, and UMass researchers contributed extensively to a recently-published offshore wind assessment andrecommendation reportby the Massachusetts Research Partnership in Offshore Wind. The report suggests Massachusetts could be a leader in US offshore wind development. Arwade, a member of WEC and a co-author of the report, has led a team of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to determine the risks posed by hurricanes through simulations and experiments.
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“A lot of what we’re doing is putting together components of research that are well understood on their own but haven’t been linked in meaningful ways,” Arwade said, “People know how to do the analysis of offshore structures, from the oil and gas industry in the U.S. to the offshore wind industry in Europe. People to a large extent know how to model hurricanes, but what hasn’t been done is to put those two things together.”
通过与其他大学的合作，ARWADE表示，他的团队和合作者已发现飓风在其风野中具有可能对近海风力涡轮机的设计很重要。他们也看着破碎的波浪与结构相互作用。其他研究艺术团队正在努力的研究包括查看固定和浮动的底部涡轮机以及从中出现的机会，创造了破坏波浪发生的地图，并使用场景来看看未来气候变化相关的飓风的概率。
In turn, WEC’s research on hurricane risk assessment will benefit the offshore wind industry by providing developers with information they need to design and implement offshore farms with energy security and reliability in mind.
“By providing better models for hurricane risk I think we can help to insure energy security, essentially to help regulators make sure that 20 years from now when we achieve a stronger renewable energy presence, that when you flip the switch, the lights go on” Arwade says.
离岸设计的另一个主要安全影响正在改变标准，以确保安全有效的海上风力结构。
“将发生的最大的事情是修改设计代码，”Arwade说过他的团队正在做的研究，“所以当一群工程师设计一个结构时，他们所做的就是他们参考设计代码或设计规范和设计规范设计代码有效地指导工程师在给定位置制作结构的强度。它讲述了工程师的负载是什么和类似的东西。这方面已经存在一些进展，以发展为基于飓风的设计标准，但我认为这就是影响会感受到的地方。“
Offshore wind is becoming a global industry that needs to undergo further research to advance in the United States. The aforementioned report estimated that “electricity as a fraction of the world’s energy consumption will rise from 18 percent now to 40 percent in 2050”, and that “86 percent of that electricity will be generated from renewable resources, nearly all of which will come from wind energy (on land and offshore), solar photovoltaics, and hydropower.”
ARWADE AMHESTER在Mashsachusetts的未来风也很重要。校园准备在研究中获利，报告中包含许多建议。
“We can’t afford to have this industry be harmed by unexpected failures,” says Arwade.
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