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Dr Agota Mockute

Dr Agota Mockute

NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow

Faculty and Department

  • Institutes
  • Energy and Environmental Institute

Qualifications

  • MEng (University of Birmingham)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Florence (UNIFI))

Summary

Agota Mockute is a lecturer, researcher and knowledge exchange fellow, focussing on offshore wind and decarbonisation.

On the decarbonisation front, Agota is keenly engaging with local and national organisations on their net zero and sustainability journey. She is also supervising PhD research project on carbon footprint of elite sport organisations.

On the offshore wind front, Agota focusses on knowledge exchange between the key stakeholders in offshore wind and the natural environment, to map out research gaps for sustainable expansion of offshore wind, thus enabling sustainable evidence-based expansion of this renewable energy technology to meet the UK's Net Zero emissions targets.

Moreover, work through supervision is continued on wave loading on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines in rough seas, and the effect of highly nonlinear resonant phenomena on the structural response and remaining useful lifetime.

Before joining the EEI in 2019, Agota was an Early Career Researcher for Horizon 2020 project Aeolus4Future, and attained an International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering between the University of Florence (Italy) and TU Braunschweig (Germany). She has graduated from the University of Birmingham with MEng in Civil and Energy Engineering, Honours, in 2015.

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Wind–Wave Loading and Response of OWT Monopiles in Rough Seas

Mockute, A., Borri, C., Marino, E., & Lugni, C. (2019). Wind–Wave Loading and Response of OWT Monopiles in Rough Seas. In F. Ricciardelli, & A. M. Avossa (Eds.), Proceedings of the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering. IN VENTO 2018 (507-518). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12815-9_39

Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges

Marino, E., Mockute, A., Borri, C., & Lugni, C. (2018). Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges. In H. R. Reza Karimi (Ed.), Structural Control and Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Systems (9-44). London: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBPO117E_ch2

Journal Article

Comparison of nonlinear wave-loading models on rigid cylinders in regular waves

Mockute, A., Marino, E., Lugni, C., & Borri, C. (2019). Comparison of nonlinear wave-loading models on rigid cylinders in regular waves. Energies, 12(21), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12214022

Comparison of hydrodynamic loading models for vertical cylinders in nonlinear waves

Mockute, A., Marino, E., Lugni, C., & Borri, C. (2017). Comparison of hydrodynamic loading models for vertical cylinders in nonlinear waves. Procedia Engineering, 199, 3224-3229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.329

Research interests

Knowledge exchange and offshore wind.

Offshore wind energy and monopile-supported offshore wind turbines, wave loading on them, numerical modelling of fluid-structure interaction, lifetime fatigue assessment.

Academia-industry-government-public knowledge exchange, stakeholder engagement, open dialogue on decarbonisation and offshore wind.

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Natural Environment and Offshore Wind (NEOW)

Funder

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

Grant

£191,578.00

Started

1 August 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

Offshore Wind Library for ICURe funding

Funder

SetSquared

Grant

£46,164.00

Started

1 January 2021

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Towards enabling sustainable expansion of offshore wind while protecting marine benthic biodiversity and functioning (BEcoWIND)

Funder

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

Grant

£612,236.00

Started

1 April 2023

Status

Ongoing

Project

Scour Tilting and Ringing in Monopiles

Funder

Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

Grant

£50,008.00

Started

1 March 2019

Status

Complete

Project

FF2021 -1049 - Physics -informed machine learning for rapid fatigue assessments in offshore wind farms

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£96,941.00

Started

1 June 2021

Status

Complete

Project

On the Edge: a co-created exploration of young people’s eco-anxiety in the face of climate uncertainty

Funder

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

Grant

£10,000.00

Started

1 July 2021

Status

Complete

Project

NERC Discipline Hopping: Pursuing a Climate Resilient AND Net Zero Future

Funder

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

Grant

£4,000.00

Started

1 March 2022

Status

Complete

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