Getting Greece on the AWE Map! EU Commission Funded AWES Metamaterial Lattice Research?

You are the longtime lead contact for EU AWE research funding inclusion, via programs like AWESCO, for EU Commission and other major EU public R&D funding. Everyone is aware of expanded new EU funding rounds in preparation, addressing clean energy research, with AWE as a focus, and AWEurope as an R&D umbrella.

Anastasios "Tassos" Kanellos is a great latest addition to EU AWE R&D, to add Greece as a participating EU country, to help expand the scope of cutting-edge EU engineering science to include AWES Metamaterial Lattices. Tassos not only did applicable foundational thesis work on Topological Structural Form-finding, but is ideally placed in interdisciplinary public Greek research via the ISL Lab of IIT and NCSRD, at the intersection of informatics, telecom, robotics, and computational materials science.

"I would find research in form-finding efficient airborne lattice structures with three-dimensional topology to be a particularly interesting and challenging topic, as this needs to consider dynamic elements related to wind load bearing and motion of the lattice. After an overview of the information you have shared, as far as I understand, such an endeavor would require expertise from several domains, such as structural/mechanical/electrical engineering, geometrical modelling, construction detailing and ICT-based form-finding algorithms and simulations. From my end, I would certainly find a keen interest in the part of geometrical modeling by applying algorithms based on spring-mass simulations, similar to the ones described in my thesis. This could also be coupled with some optimization algorithms (e.g. genetic) and/or machine learning techniques for increased efficiency. I also suppose that an evaluation mechanism would also be required that would include CFD simulations and structural assessment possibly with FEA.

I have been a research associate with the ISL Lab of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT) at the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" in Greece, where we have been active in several EU-funded ICT projects in various fields (see past projects here and ongoing here).

If you see a prospect of collaboration with me individually or with the organization I am affiliated with, please let me know."

Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

TUDelft itself needs to participate in advancing EU research beyond single-line single-kite reeling topology that AWESCO and AWEurope exclusively studied, now confirmed to have severe scaling and density limits. An ideal new internal AWES R&D collaborator may be TUDelft's Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics (home link and related pdf below).

JoeF and I leave it to EU academic players to organize pending EU Commission AWE funding. under optimal research-design principles. The US is lining up complimentary AWES research constellations, under DOE NREL NWTC auspices. IEA TEM#102 will further the harmonization of global AWE R&D in September. EU, US, and other major AWES R&D will no doubt become an increasingly integrated community to make megascale AWES a TRL9 reality by 2030.