James Mcnaughton Email & Phone Number

Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Oxford, United Kingdom

Teaching assistant for 3rd year hydraulics module in engineering science degree. Marking tutorial sheets and collection papers;Preparing and delivering tutorials and revision classes to groups students.

Oxford, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Carrying out and supervising technical studies for offshore renewable energy in the topics of offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M), floating wind and marine energy.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Responsible for a variety of tasks related to the design, validation, certification and in-service support of tidal turbines. Day-to-day work involved numerical modelling, data analysis and researching new ideas to.
• Development of tests to understand turbine performance in a range of design and off-design conditions.
• Performed a detailed assessment of the deployed tidal turbine’s performance in line with the IEC Technical Standard (TS\62600-200).
• Created numerical models of tidal sites using open-source shallow water model (Fluidity) to understand the resource and support the design of tidal farm layouts.
• Processed data measured from Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) to understand characteristics of tidal sites.
• Validated blade-element momentum software (Tidal Bladed) using measured performance and loads data to reduce uncertainty in future turbine design.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Working on a variety of projects relevant to existing and future technologies which have included:+ CFD modelling at different scales;+ Fatigue and ultimate loads calculations;+ Data analysis (device and flow data);+ Involvement in Research and Technology.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• This was a short-term contract to ensure the benefits of my PhD research could be realised and that knowledge could be shared within the department to allow for the continuation of research using methodologies.
• Continued PhD research to consider blade-pitch control in CFD model of a tidal turbine in order to represent the control strategy of a tidal turbine. Developed complex meshes with nested sliding-mesh interfaces.
• Prepared technical deliverable reports to meet project requirements. Authored two journal papers and presented a conference paper at the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference.
• Transferred knowledge through delivering training to post-doctoral assistant and producing documentation to ensure research could be continued effectively.

Demonstrating laboratory experiments to undergraduate students, experiments include open channel flow, axial flow pumps, pipe flow.Helping students in CFD workshops, software includes Star CCM+, Code_Saturne and post-processing using Paraview, explaining basics of Linux operating system.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Coaching korfball players at University of Manchester.Players range from beginner to advanced and experienced.Working alone and alongside other coaches to plan and deliver sessions of different ability.

Egham, Surrey

Supervising first year workshops in applied maths, helping develop confidence in students to develop problem solving initiative, marking weekly worksheets and providing explanations where answers have gone wrong.

Egham, Surrey

Working as part of the library support team, sorting returned books to be re-shelved efficiently, re-shelving books, keeping the library clean and systematically reorganising books to keep them in order in the long term.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd)

Activities and Societies: Korfball PhD title: Turbulence modelling in the near-field of an axial flow tidal stream turbine. Supervisors.

Master Of Science (Msc), Theoretical And Applied Fluid Dynamics, Distinction

Master Of Science (Msci), Mathematics