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Dr Luke Blunden PhD, MRes, MEng

Researcher in Sustainable Energy

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Dr Luke Blunden is Researcher in Sustainable Energy within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.

Previously awarded degrees:

MEng Engineering from University of Cambridge (2003)
MRes Coastal Engineering for Climate Change (2005)
PhD (2009) from the University of Southampton. Dr Blunden’s PhD research was related to flow impact and resource assessment for marine renewable energy

Other current areas of research include Energy for Development and the energy performance of cities.

Research

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Research interests

Marine renewable energy resources
Energy for development
Sustainability of cities

Research group

Energy and Climate Change

Research project(s)

(E4D) Replication of Rural Decentralised off-grid Electricity Generation through Technology and Business Innovation

Feasibility Study of the Impacts of Proposed Tidal Array Installations in Channel Islands

(Liveable Cities)Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing

Articles

Coles, D. S., Blunden, L., & Bahaj, A. (2017). Assessment of the energy extraction potential at tidal sites around the Channel Islands. Energy, 124, 171-186. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.02.023

Coles, D. S., Blunden, L., & Bahaj, A. (2016). Experimental validation of the distributed drag method for simulating large marine current turbine arrays using porous fences. International Journal of Marine Energy, 16, 298-316. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijome.2016.10.001

Essendi, H., Amoako Johnson, F., Madise, N., Matthews, Z., Falkingham, J., Bahaj, A., ... Blunden, L. (2015). Infrastructural challenges to better health in maternity facilities in rural Kenya: community and health worker perceptions. Reproductive Health, 12(103), 1-11. DOI: 10.1186/s12978-015-0078-8

Blunden, L. S., Bahaj, A. S., & Aziz, N. S. (2012). Tidal current power for Indonesia? An initial resource estimation for the Alas Strait. Renewable Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.046

Calles, O., Olsson, I. C., Comoglio, C., Kemp, P. S., Blunden, L. S., Schmitz, M., & Greenberg, L. A. (2010). Size-dependent mortality of migratory silver eels at a hydropower plant and implications for escapement to the sea. Freshwater Biology, 55(10), 2167-2180. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02459.x

Blunden, L. S., & Bahaj, A. S. (2007). Tidal energy resource assessment for tidal stream generators. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 221(2), 137-146. DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE332

Blunden, L. S., & Bahaj, A. S. (2006). Initial evaluation of tidal stream energy resources at Portland Bill. [In special issue: Marine Energy]. Renewable Energy, 31(2), 121-132. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.016

Conferences

Harrison, M. E., Batten, W. M. J., Blunden, L. S., Myers, L. E., & Bahaj, A. S. (2008). Comparisons of a large tidal turbine array using the boundary layer and field wake interaction models. Paper presented at Second International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE 2008), .

Blunden, L., & Bahaj, A. S. (2006). Comparison of different approaches to tidal stream energy resource assessment. 139-144. Paper presented at Renewable Energy in Maritime Island Climates, .

Dr Luke Blunden
Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number:7/5013

Telephone:(023) 8059 3941
Email:lsb1@soton.ac.uk

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