Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Centrale Nantes Offshore sea test site
The collective impact of the growth in the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) sector, the increase in demand for oceanographic instrumentation, and more generally speaking, issues related to naval and offshore sector needs; presents a new challenge: that of developing effective scientific equipment, which is able to meet the needs of research work and foster innovation.
Centrale Nantes, Ifremer, University Gustave Eiffel and the OPEN-C Foundation are taking up this challenge by networking their hydrodynamic and mechanical test facilities, to carry out research activities and collaborative projects with French and international companies. This is how THeoREM came into being.
THeoREM promotes research partnerships between academics, technical centers and industry. Companies can carry out risk-reduction by combining experimental modelling and numerical modelling, before proceeding to pre-commercialisation stage. In addition to the Marine Renewable Energy sector, our experimental resources are intended for the offshore oil and the naval sector.
The THeoREM network includes:
These facilities can test oceanographic equipment and models of posed, floating or underwater systems, and cover a wide range of applications: sea behaviour studies, wave/wind and wave/current combined effects, performance measurements for marine renewable energies, immersion constraints, hydrodynamic structures, soil mechanics in marine conditions, mooring lines and umbilicals behaviour, etc.
Centrale Nantes
CNRS
Fondation Open-C
IFREMER
Université Gustave Eiffel
The THeoREM infrastructure is listed on the research infrastructure roadmap of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It is due to become the French contribution to the European Marinerg-i infrastructure. A Scientific Interest Grouping - setting out THeoREM's mode of operation - was established and signed on 13 March 2017 by Centrale Nantes and Ifremer.