Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi

Position

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Research
  1. Offshore wind energy,
  2. Environmental impacts of offshore wind turbines: noise
  3. Wind-wave-turbulence-structure interaction,
  4. Mutual interactions between climate change and offshore wind parks
  5. Large Eddy Simulation (wind turbine/farm interactions),
  6. Physical oceanography (ocean mixing and transport, Lagrangian particle tracking),
  7. Air-sea interaction, turbulence, and coherence structures,
  8. Meso and submesoscale oceanic eddies in the North Sea,
  9. Data assimilation and digital twin of wind energy
  10. Reduced order modelling for offshore energy systems
Outreach

Model Uncertainity Reduction Using LiDAR-based Data Assimilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysLP8l41NM&t=162s

 

Multiscale scale modelling of wind and wake using WRF-LES: Area requirement study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Q-3dI737Y&t=156s

Underwater noise emission from floating turbine: https://zenodo.org/records/14065613

 

 

Teaching

ENERGI321 2022-on (lecturer)

ENERGI322 2022-on (course responsible)

ENERGI101 - 2021-on (course responsible)

ENERGI360 2024 (co-lecturer)

HTEK101 2024 (co-lecturere)

ENERGI200 (this is now ENERGI300) will provide an overview over various energy resources focusing on renewable resources, as well as national and international energy use and production. 

Field course in wind energy (Fall)

GEOF210 (2016)

Post-docs/researchers

  • Hai Bui (researcher at HIPERWIND and ImpactWind, 2021-on)
  • Mohammadreza Mohammadpour Penchah (researcher at HIPERWIND, 2021-on)
  • Devanil Choudhury (2021)
  • Maria Krutova (2024-on )
  • Shokoufeh Malekmohammadi (2025), Wind3D project
  • Xu Ning (2025): FHF project

Current supervision/co-supervision of PhD students

  • Christiane Duscha (GFI/UiB): Remote sensing of the atmospheric boundary layer for wind energy research (2019-2024)
  • Maria Krutova (GFI/UiB): Investigation of wave meandring behind wind turbines (2019-2023)
  • Martin Flügge (GFI/UiB): Characterization of the marine atmospheric boundary layer for offshore wind energy applications (2010-2013).
  • Xu Ning: Wind-wave-turbine interactions (2020-)
  • Kaan Akkas: Fluid-structure interaction amd noise emission from floating turbines (2024-on)
  • Øystein Husevåg Døskeland: Improved Operability and Decision-Making for Weather Sensitive Marine Operations (2022-2025)

Accomplished supervision of PhD students:

Maria Krutova (GFI/UiB), 2024 as main supervisor

Christiane Duscha (GFI/UiB), 2024 as co-supervisor

Hamman Deilami Azodi (2018) co-supervisor (applied mathematics) 

Nasim Maddah (2023) co-supervisor (applied mathematics)

Øystein Husevåg Døskeland (2025) NTNU . co-supervisor

Supervision of master students:

  • Rouzbeh Siavashi, 2017-2018: Modelling power output and structural response of offshore wind turbines as function of atmospheric stability and sea state.
  • Tiril Konow, 2021-2022: Underwater noise emitted by offshore wind turbines.
  • Christina Ekrem Dimmen:Atmospherice noise emitted by wind turbines (completed 2022).
  • Tore Totland Skjerdal: Wind-wave misalignments and offshore wind turbine power variations (completed 2022).
  • Adrian Nilsen Grotle: Impact of Wind-wave interactions on offshore turbine structural responses (completed 2022).
  • Martine Rønning: Reduced order models based on model results and LiDAR measurements (completed 2022).
  • Fahim Masud Ahmed: Low-level jet height’s impact on wind turbine loads: A case study (completed 2023)
  • Tord Nylan Malmei: Load/structural analysis of offshore wind turbines under varying atmospheric and sea-state conditions (completed 2024).
  • Frida Stokkenes Eliassen: Offshore wind park and upper ocean interaction focusing on environmental impacts of offshore wind (part of WindSYS project).
  • Assma Karouach: Turbine induced noise (part of WindSYS project).
  • Rebekka Mongstad : Turbine induced noise (part of WindSYS project).
  • Viktor Dahl: Wind intermittency and resource assesment at different offshore sites: analyses using historical NORA3 data

 

Publications
Poster
Academic lecture
Doctoral dissertation
Academic article
Lecture
Report
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Popular scientific lecture
Errata

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Projects

[1] LESWIND: Large Eddy Simulation Modelling of Offshore Wind Farms Under the Influence of Varying Atmospheric Stability and Sea-State Conditions

[2] CONWIND: Research on smart operation control technologies for offshore windfarms (lead by NORCE)

[3] HIPERWIND:  HIghly advanced Probabilistic design and enhanced Reliability methods for high-value, cost-efficient offshore WIND (EU H2020 lead by DTU)

[4] Noise measurement in Hywind Tampen (led by IMR)

[5] WindSys: Effects of floating wind farms on the marine ecosystem, with a focus on pelagic fish (WP leader and PI - led by IMR)

[6] FHF: Effects on the seafood industry of offshore wind development (WP leader and PI - led by IMR)

[7] Wind3D: Nonuniform and Three-Dimensional Design of Offshore Wind Parks (WP-leader)

[8] Optimizing wind energy production and operability for multi-decadal climate fluctuations in the Euro-Atlantic region

[9] Mutual Impact of Climate Change and Offshore Renewable Energy (project leader).