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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.

Head of Group: P rofessor Dominic A Hudson

We conduct fundamental and applied research in topics related to the dynamic behaviour of marine structures involving: the prediction of wave-induced motions and loads; mechanics of lightweight and composite structures; underwater systems engineering; and marine vehicle design. Other research strengths include:

Members of the group have a wide range of international links. Examples include: University of Delaware, USA (modelling risk in UAVs); Beijing University, China (intelligent structural health monitoring); University of Limerick (joint PhD supervision on stress analysis of biomedical devices); University of Perugia, Italy (joint PhD supervision on yacht–sailor interaction modelling); University of Newcastle, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, and University of Galati, Romania (benchmarking experimental and theoretical modelling of composite structures); and Yokohama National University, Japan (fluid–structure modelling in ocean space structures).

A significant feature of the work is the coalescing of fundamental research with the potential application domains which are achieved in collaboration with external partners. Four examples of such a linkage are:

  • Lloyd's Register University Technology Centre (LR UTC) in Hydrodynamics, Hydroelasticity and Mechanics of Composites
  • Advanced Technology Partnership with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI ATP) on Maritime Science and Engineering
  • Performance Sports Engineering in collaboration with UK Sports
  • Centre of Excellence in Marine Structures in collaboration with Ministry of Defence, Lloyd's Register and University College London

Members of the group are also involved in various committees of the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) and International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC)

Fluid Structure Interactions Blog

Southampton Sailing Robot Team Blog

Contact us:

Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering
Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton Boldrewood Innovation Campus
Burgess Road
Southampton
SO16 7QF

Administrative officers:

Satwant Virdee
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7745
Email: [email protected]

Melanie Hallford
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2192
Email: [email protected]

Azra Jaffry
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4914
Email: [email protected]

Postgraduate programme:

We also contribute to the Maritime Technology Education Consortium (MTEC)

List of all staff members in Maritime Engineering
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
List of related projects to Maritime Engineering
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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