Research Group: Maritime Engineering

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The aim of our work is to explore and understand the behaviour of engineering systems in a maritime environment with a view to improving the integration of design, production and operation, accounting for safety, economic and societal viewpoints. Systems include ships, submarines and submersibles, yachts and offshore structures. We seek to unify aspects of naval architecture, marine engineering, ocean engineering, offshore engineering and the emerging subject of maritime engineering sciences.

Staff Member	Primary Position
Dominic A Hudson	Head of group
Joseph Banks	Lecturer in Ship Science/Maritime Engineering
Janice M Barton	Visiting Professor of Experimental Mechanics
James I R Blake	James is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Composites and High Performance Marine Vehicles and is the Director of Programmes for Maritime Engineering.
Jeanne M.F.A. Blanchard	Visiting Researcher
Adrian Bodenmann	Senior Research Assistant
David Bossens	Postgraduate research student
Stephen W Boyd	Associate Professor
Alex Cattrell	Postgraduate research student
John Chaplin	Emeritus Professor
R M Cripps	Visiting Professor
Kamal Djidjeli	Lecturer
Jon Downes	Associate Professor in Maritime Autonomous Systems
Magnus Gregory	Doctoral Research Candidate for Maritime Engineering
Przemyslaw Grudniewski	Visiting Fellow
Grant E Hearn	Emeritus Professor of Offshore Engineering Science
Dominic A Hudson	Shell Professor of Ship Safety and Efficiency
Eko Ilman	Postgraduate research student
Georgina Keane	Senior Teaching Fellow
Puramharikrishnan Arun Lakshmynarayanana	Adjunct Fellow
Artur K Lidtke	Visiting Researcher
Jin Wei Lim	PhD Student
Thomas Lloyd	Visiting Researcher
Bertrand Malas	Towing Tank Manager
Laura Marimon Giovannetti	Visiting Researcher
Miguel F Massot-Campos	Senior Research Fellow
Anthony F Molland	Emeritus Professor
Christopher W.G. Phillips	Visiting Researcher
Geraint Price	Emeritus Professor
Hossam Ragheb	Postgraduate research student
R Ajit Shenoi	Professor of Lightweight Structures
Adam J Sobey	Associate Professor
Mingyi Tan	Lecturer
Dominic Taunton	Associate Professor in Ship Science and Maritime Engineering
Pandeli Temarel	Emeritus Professor of Hydroelasticity
Ole Thybo Thomsen	Professor of Structures and Materials
Blair Thornton	Professor of Marine Autonomy
Nicholas Townsend	Lecturer
Stephen R Turnock	Professor of Maritime Fluid Dynamics
Yikun Wang	Senior Research Fellow
ZhenZhou Wang	Research Fellow in Infrastructure group
Gabriel D Weymouth	Associate Professor of Marine Hydrodynamics
Philip A Wilson	Emeritus Professor
Björn Windén	Visiting researcher
Jing Tang Xing	Emeritus Professor of Applied Mechanics
Y P Xiong	Associate Professor

Related Projects	Status
Maritime Energy – sustainable and secure	Active
Passive-Adaptive Composite Structures for Unsteady Fluid Loading	Active
Structural Analysis and Loads for a Modular Nuclear Merchant Ship	Active
Smart Materials and Structures with Hybrid Nonlinear Vibration Control for Marine Applications	Active
Full-Field Optical Techniques for High Strain Rate Behaviour Investigation on Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers	Active
Assessment of the effectiveness of fuel cell as an alternative technology for marine propulsion systems	Active
The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Exchanges with China Major Award 2010	Active
Aesthetic consideration in ship design	Active
A new tool to identify defects in adhesively bonded joints	Active
Numerical simulation of interfacial fluid flows by an anti-diffusive VOF method	Active
Fluid Structure Interactions projects summary	Active
Simulating high performance craft for design and training	Active
Advanced Multi-scale Strain Based Non-Destructive Evaluation (AMUSED)	Active
How important are defects in marine structural composites?	Active
INSPIRE CASE PhD: Drones Against Climate Change (DACC): improving the estimates of forest fire smoke emissions	Active
Investigation of Wall-Bounded Turbulence over Sparsely Distributed Roughness	Active
Interactions of Fluid and Soft Bodied Structures with Applications to Wave Energy Device	Active
Design and Development of Duct-Diffuser Augmented Propeller Low Head Hydro Turbines	Active
Wave Making Drag Prediction for Improved Design of Marine Crafts	Active
Hydrothermal Ageing and the Implications of Adopting Sustainable Composite Materials for Structural Marine Applications	Active
Design of High Speed Craft from a Human Factors Perspective	Active
Fluid-structure interactions for yacht sails	Active
Wave making drag prediction for improved design of marine crafts	Active
Predicting tidal turbine noise for environmental impact assessment	Active
Low carbon and hazardous emissions shipping	Active
Influence of Ultimate Strength on Aged and Corroded Ships	Active
Investigations on power flow analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems and applications	Active
Anaconda - Wave Energy Converter	Active
Investigation of Wave Impact on Permeable Structures for Coastal Defences	Active
Novel co-blended polymer matrix systems for fire resistant structural marine composites	Active
LR/MoD Centre of Excellence for Marine Structures	Active
Smart MRE Materials and Structures for Adaptive Vibration Control	Active
REsidual Stress and structural Integrity Studies using Thermography (RESIST)	Active
Crust Formation on Natural Rubber	Active
Pulse Phase Thermography and its Application to Defects in Adhesively Bonded Joints	Active
Numerical Investigations on Fluid-Structure Ineractions Using Particle Based Methods for Marine Applications	Active
Portus Project	Active
Numerical Investigation into Potential Flow Around High-Speed Hydrooil Assisted Craft	Active
Smart vibration control using magnetorheological elastomers in hybrid shear-compressive modes with application to maritime engineering	Active
Energy harvesting utilising the gyroscopic effect	Active
Improvements to experimental approach for application of optical methods to high-speed testing of composites	Active
Lightweight composite and sandwich structures	Active
Prediction of Aircraft Exhaust Noise	Active
Adaptive and smart materials and structures for more efficient vessels (Adam4eve)	Active
A Mixed Finite Element-Smoothing Particle method for Nonlinear FSI Problems, with Applications to Maritime Engineering	Active
Optimized athlete body sensor networks for simulation-based performance analysis	Active
The Performance of Ships in Abnormal Waves	Active
EPSRC-Shaping Capacity Award: “Novel energy flow based dynamic topology optimizations for light-weight marine structures to suppress vibration and noise radiation"	Active
Maritime sport and leisure	Active
Permeability and Cure Measurements in the Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Process for Validation of PAM-RTM	Active
Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Analysis of Floating Structures Subject to Ocean Environments	Active
Adaptive Composite Blades for Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbines	Active
RNLI University Technology Centre	Active
Fluid loads and motions of damaged ships	Active
MoD Centre of Excellence	Active
Digital image correlation for high strain rate behaviour investigation on glass fibre reinforced polymers	Active
The use of optical techniques to assess the performance of composite materials under high velocity deformations	Active
The influence of surface waves on the added resistance of merchant ships	Active
Numerical Modelling of Scour around Complex 3D Structures	Active
Through life performance of sustainable composites	Active
Why Do Wings Make Engines Noisier?	Active
Security of boat moorings and harvesting their energy	Active
Ocean Survey and Autonomous Sampling Using Multi-Agent Systems	Active
Accurate Cartesian-grid modeling of unsteady and separating flows	Active
Development of Printed Smart Fabric Sensors for the Marine Industry	Active
Novel approach to MRE smart materials and structures for suppressing vibration and noise	Active
The Influence of Surface Waves on the Added Resistance of Merchant Ships	Active
Design and Development of Effective Nonlinear Energy Harvesters	Active
Hydroelastic Inflatable Boats: A Possible Design Methodology	Active
Ship Hydrodynamics - Wave Induced Motions and Loads	Active
Lightweight and High Performance Ships	Active
Analysis of adhesively-bonded composite joints	Active
Lloyds Register University Techology Centre	Active
Body Non Linear 3D Hydroelasticity	Active
Minimising the propulsive power consumption of a fleet of AUVs	Active
Nonlinear Power Flow Active Control of Aeroelastic Flutter of Flappled Airfoils	Active
Lessons from nature for engineering	Active
Development of a Hover Capable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	Active
Development of advanced non-destructive damage detection approach using vibrational power flow	Active
Design and Development of Duct-Diffuser Augmented Propeller Low Head Hydro Turbines	Active
Thermal Degradation of Polymeric Foam Cored Sandwich Structures	Active
Unstructured MEL modelling of 3D Ship Hydrodynamics	Active
Low Carbon and Hazardous Emissions Shipping	Active
Power Flow Active Control of Aeroelastic Flutter for a Nonlinear Airfoil with Flap	Active
Infra-red Sensing for Materials Characterisation and Damage Assessment	Active
Linear interaction between compressibility and a gravity field for barotropic fluids	Active
Thermal degradation of foam cored sandwich structures	Active
Innovative smart magnetic materials and smart structures with hybrid vibration energy control for marine application	Active
Simulation of tactical yacht racing: a human-psychological-physical AI-system in a dynamically changing yacht racing environment	Active
Air entrainment in the wake of a transom stern	Active
Full-field data-rich experimental approaches to explain composite material and structural performance and its damage tolerance (DAMTOL)	Active
Modelling and prediction of residual stress	Active
Investigations on Structure-Isolator Interaction System for Particular Vibration Isolation Performance	Active
Prediction of hydrodynamics characteristics of naval vessels	Active
Modelling Characterisation and Development of New Magnetorheological Materials with Enhanced Vibration Control	Active
Vibration Power Flow Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems and Applications	Active
Investigation of Wall-Bounded Turbulence over Sparsely Distributed Roughness	Active
Investigation of Numerical Methods for Achieving Energy Efficient Ships	Active
Infra-red Technique for Damage Tolerant Sandwich Structures	Active
Low Carbon Ship Design	Active
Investigation and development of a new effective nonlinear energy harvester	Active
Reliability based life-time prediction and assessment of composite sandwich structures	Active
Preparation of section properties for 2d anti-symmetric analysis of ship with structural discontinuities	Active
Dynamic characteristics of ocean platform with mooring system	Active
Design and development of cost effective surface mounted water turbines for rural electricity production	Active
Structural modelling of damaged steel structures	Active
Strength assessment of damaged ship structures	Active
Greenboat	Active
Investigations of Nonlinear Fluid-Solid Interaction Dynamic Systems for Wave Energy Harvesting	Active
INSPIRE CASE PhD: Developing a practical application of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for conservation research and monitoring of endangered wildlife	Active
A Particle Based Method for Flow Simulations in Hydrodynamics and Hydroelasticity	Active
Minimising the Propulsive Power Consumption of a Fleet of AUVs	Active
Syncronised IRT and DIC Capture to Measure the Strain Rate Dependency of Fibre Reinforced Composites	Active
Using Synthetic Turbulence as an Inlet Condition for Large Eddy Simulations	Active
Gyroscopic Energy Harvesting	Active
Swimming Data Capture	Active
Tailored composites for deformation control in unsteady fluid-structure interactions	Active
Potential for evaluating residual stress using thermoelastic stress analysis	Active
The effect of flexibility on the design and performance of inflatable boats, plus environmental considerations	Active
Applications of thermography for material and structures monitoring and assessment	Active
Optimisation of a fleet of AUVs to minimise energy dissipation	Active
Methodology for assessing the life extension of high performance marine craft	Active
Use of cryogenic buoyancy systems for controlled removal of heavy objects from the seabed	Active
Numerical investigations on fluid-structure interactions using particle based methods for marine applications	Active
An investigation into the face sheet debonding of glass balsa sandwich composites	Active
Gothenburg 2010: rans simulations of the multiphase flow around the kcs hullform	Active
Ship Hydraulics (Sloshing)	Active
Integrated Design for Production to Ensure Sustainability in Marine Transportation	Active
Damage Assessment Tool for Marine Structures	Active
RNLI Advanced Technology Partnership	Active
Enhanced Performance of Sandwich Structures by Improved Damage Tolerance (SANTIGUE2)	Active
IRIS PhD Studentship - Including the Aurora in Spacecraft Orbit Prediction	Active
Fast escape underwater vehicle inspired by the octopus jetting	Active
Wake Detection Ability and Self-Induced Motion Suppression of Whisker-like Geometries	Active
Power flow topology optimizations for engineering structures to suppress vibration and noise	Active
Aquatic Soft Robots for Environmental Sensing	Dormant

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