ESRU undertakes research into new technologies and methods for energy utilisation and supply, and evolves computational tools to assist practitioners in their attempts to devise clean and sustainable overall solutions.
Our research goals include:
- improving the accuracy of the mathematical models and numerical methods used to represent heat, mass, light and power flow;
- applying simulation to optimise energy component and system performance, and promote energy efficiency measures;
- evolving software engineering techniques that increase researcher efficiency and program robustness;
- improving confidence in predictions through the development of program validation, calibration and accreditation procedures; and
- constructing knowledge-based design support environments to enable application interoperability and effective team working.
Our dissemination goals include:
- establishing simulation as a core teaching technology within undergraduate and postgraduate courses; extending, through consultancy and Open Source licensing arrangements, the power of simulation to the design profession; and
- fostering the uptake of a computational approach to energy systems design through practitioner training activities.