{"id":1536,"date":"2023-11-24T22:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2023-11-24T22:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T03:45:42","slug":"giving-thanks-for-nils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2023\/11\/giving-thanks-for-nils\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving thanks for Nils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A crazy Fall schedule that included a fair bit of travel has me behind on posting to the website, but the Thanksgiving holiday is an appropriate time for a post about Nils Horneff. Nils joined Water Bros Desal in April as an engineering research assistant from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT<\/em>) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He came with a strong background in numerical modeling that we wanted to leverage to improve the rigor of our wave energy converter (WEC) modeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a couple of weeks of his arrival, we had him helping craft responses to reviewer queries on our proposal to the Department of Energy for a 4-year project to do long-duration testing of a ruggedized version of our Waves to Water design. Beyond the WEC modeling work, Nils was also great a disseminating our work through technical conferences like the Appalachian Energy Summit in Boone, NC and the University Marine Energy Research Community conference in Durham, New Hampshire. I even had him pop in as a fresh set of eyes and technical consultant on my North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landon and I are thankful for the technical contributions that Nils made and the friendships that developed before Nils returned to Germany in the middle of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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