February 2009
Curriculum vitae for Johannes Falnes
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Address: |
Division of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway. |
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Phone, office: |
+47-735 93452 ….. Fax: +47-735 97710 |
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Private: |
Johan Falkbergets veg 11 C, N-7021 Trondheim, Norway. |
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Phone, private: |
Home: +47-72 55 96 07 Cell (mobile): +47-91114619 |
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Position: |
Professor Emeritus (of Experimental Physics). |
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Born: |
1931 at Skudenes, Norway. |
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Citizenship: |
Norwegian. |
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Academic degrees: |
"Sivilingeniør" 1957 in electronic engineering from the Electrotechnical Department of the Norwegian Institute of Technology (N.T.H.), Trondheim, Norway. "Dr.techn." 1972 at N.T.H. |
Main professional activities:
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Research: |
Plasma physics and solid state electronics (1957-1973) |
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Teaching: |
Lecturing in applied mathematics (1963,1964) Lecturing in physics (1972-2001) Occational lecturing on ocean-wave power (2002- ) |
Teaching at and organising three two-week EEU (Continuing Examination-Based) Courses on ocean-wave energy and ocean-wave measurements in:
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Trondheim (1986), Rarotonga, Cook Islands (1989) and Suva, Fiji (1992). |
Teaching also at courses on ocean-wave energy in:
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Suva, Fiji (1993) Gothenburg, Sweden (1998) Gothenburg, Sweden (2005) |
These three courses, which were without exam, lasted for two weeks, except for the first-mentioned one that lasted for one week only.
Supervising students who completed their doctorate study in wave-energy research 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1995, 1996 and 2005 at the University of Trondheim/NTNU. External examinator for student completing the doctorate study at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 1998.
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Affiliations: |
Norwegian Institute of Technology (N.T.H)., Trondheim, Norway 1956-1959 |
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 1959-1961 |
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University of Bergen, Norway 1961-1964 |
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N.T.H. 1965-1995. NTNU 1996-2001 (Electronics Research Laboratory 1965-72, Department of Physics 1972-2001.) (In 1968 NTH became part of the new-established University of Trondheim which after 1995 changed name to Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU.) |
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NTNU 2002- (Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics) |
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Visiting Professor at:- |
University of Bristol, School of Mathematics, UK (2 months in 1984, 2 months in 1987 and 4 months 1994-95), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering, MA, USA (2 months in 1988), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, (3 months in 1998), Statoil, Stavanger, Norway (4 months in 1986) and Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS), NTNU, (from August 2005 -). |
Memberships, invitations, trusts, etc.:
Head of Department of Experimental Physics, NTH, from 1979.07.01 to 1985.06.30, except for the two years 1980.08.01-1982.07.31, when he had leave in order to function as Project Coordinator for the government-funded wave-power project at NTH.
Group Leader for Department of Physics' group for Radiation and Wave Physics, NTH, from 1989.01.01 to 1991.12.31.
Member of The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 1982.
Member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) from 2008.
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Member of: |
the Organizing Committee of the Second International Symposium on Wave Energy Utilization, 22-24 June 1982, Trondheim,Norway, the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Ocean Energy Development ODEC'93, 26-27 August 1993, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, the International Advisory Committee of the 5th International Energy Conference, 18-22 October 1993, Seoul, Korea, and the Conference Advisory Committee of the Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth/Seventh/Eighth European Wave Energy Conference, 8-10 November 1995, Lisbon, Portugal/30 Sept.- 2 Oct. 1998, Patras, Greece/4-6 December 2000, Aalborg, Denmark/17-20 Sept. 2003, Cork, Ireland/11-13 Sept. 2007, Porto, Portugal/7-10 Sept. 2009, Uppsala, Sweden. |
1997-2003: Member and Steering Committee Member of the ECOR Working Group on Wave Energy Conversion.
2008- : Member of The Saltire Prize Technical Advisory Board.
Advice given in connection with promotion of a U.K. university teacher as a Personal Professor in 1985 and with employment of a scientist as Lecturer at another British university in 1990. and a scientist as a College Lecturer at an Irish University in 1998.
Referee for scientific papers submitted to Applied Ocean Research (1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1997, 1999), to Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1998, 2008), to Oceanic Engineering International (2000, 2002), to International Journal of Engineering Science (2005), to Journal of Marine Science and Environment (2005), to Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment (2006, 2007, 2008), to OMAE International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (1984, 1993, and most years since 1996) and to International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (most years since 1995).
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Invited lecture and paper at: |
the 2nd World Renewable Energy Congress, Reading, UK,1992, and the International Symposium on Ocean Energy Development, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, 1993. |
Invited lecture "A review of wave-energy extraction" at a two-day seminar on Challenges for wave energy technology, in tribute to Professor Emeritus Johannes Falnes on his 75th anniversary, 14-15 December 2006, Trondheim.
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Guest lectures: |
University of Tromsø (Norway) 1976, University of Bergen (Norway) 1978, University of Bristol (UK) 1982 and 1984, University of Washington (Seattle, USA) 1988, University of Osaka (Japan) 1991. Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (China) 1996. Northwestern Polytechnic University (Xian, China) 1996. University of Hong Kong 1996. University of Saint Cloude (Minnesota, USA) 2000. Uppsala University (Sweden) 2004 |
Since 1976 more than 40 invited presentations and popular talks on wave energy utilisation.
Recent books:
Falnes, J.: "Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems: linear interactions including wave-energy extraction". Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2002 ( ISBN 0-521-78211-2). In paperback version 2005 ( ISBN 0521017491). This textbook is available also in electronic version.
Co-author of the book "Wave Energy Conversion", Elsevier Scienc Ltd., 2003 (ISBN 0-08-044212-9). [The book is a review of the state-of-the-art in wave-energy technology.]
Selected scientific - and a few review - papers
Budal, K. and Falnes, J.: "A resonant point absorber of ocean-wave power". Nature, Vol 256, pp 478-479, 1975. (With Corrigendum in Vol 257, p 626.)
Falnes, J.: "Radiation impedance matrix and optimum power absorption for interacting oscillators in surface waves." Applied Ocean Research, Vol 2, No 2, pp 75-80, 1980.
Budal, K., Falnes, J., Iversen, L.C., Lillebekken, P.M., Oltedal, G., Hals, T., Onshus, T. and Høy, A.S.: "The Norwegian wave-power buoy project". Proc. Second International Symposium on Wave Energy Utilization (H. Berge, ed), pp 323-344, 1982. Tapir, Trondheim, Norway.
Falnes, J.: "Wave-power absorption by an array of attenuators oscillating with unconstrained amplitudes". Applied Ocean Research, Vol 6, No 1, pp 16-22, 1984.
Falnes, J. and McIver, P.: "Surface wave interactions with systems of oscillating bodies and pressure distributions". Applied Ocean Research, Vol 7, No 4, pp 225-234, 1985.
Falnes. J.: "Small is beautiful: How to make wave energy economic." 1993 European Wave Energy Symposium. Proceedings of an International Symposium held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 21-24 July 1993, pp 367-372, 1994.
Falnes, J.: "Research and development in ocean-wave energy in Norway". Proceedings of International Symposium on Ocean Energy Development, 26-27 August 1993, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, (ed. H. Kondo) pp 27-39.
Falnes, J.: "On non-causal impulse response functions related to propagating water waves". Applied Ocean Research, Vol 17, No 6, pp 379-389, 1995.
Yu, Z. and Falnes, J.: "State-space modeling of dynamic systems in ocean engineering". Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, Vol. 10, pp.1-17, 1998
Falnes, J. "Wave-energy conversion through relative motion between two single-mode oscillating bodies". Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (ASME Transactions), Vol.121, pp.32-38, 1999.
Falnes, J. "Optimum control of oscillation of wave-energy converters". International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 147-155, 2002.
Hals, J., Bjarte-Larsson, T., and Falnes, J. "Optimum reactive control and control by latching of a wave-absorbing semisubmerged heaving sphere". Proceedings of OMAE'02 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, June 23-28, 2002, Oslo, Norway. Paper 28172 (9 pages) published on a CD (ISBN 0-7918-3599-5) by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 2002.
Falnes, J. and Lillebekken, P.M. "Budal's latching-controlled-buoy type wave-power plant". Fifth European Wave Energy Conference: Proceedings of an International Conference held at University College Cork, Ireland, 17-20 September 2003. (Edited by Anthony Lewis and Gareth Thomas. Organised & Published by Hydraulics & Maritime Research Centre, Cork, Ireland, 2005) pp. 233-244.
Bjarte-Larsson, T. and Falnes, J. "Laboratory experiment on heaving body with hydraulic power take-off and latching control". Journal of Ocean Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 447-477, 2006.
Falnes, J. "A review of wave-energy extraction". Marine Structures, Vol 20, No 4, pp 185-201, 2007.
For a complete list of publications by J. Falnes, click here.