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Research
Current research
Philip has supported research supervsion for doctoral students in the following areas: seakeeping, ship manoeuvring, control of surface following ships, control of autonomous underwater vehicles, fluid dynamic flow in composite materials, collision avoidance techniques. Recent research has been funded on contract from the EU in the following areas: reduction of ship wash, updating the aspects of voyage data recorders (black boxes), autonomous underwater vehicle design and operation. A Tempus project was completed with the emphasis on masters and doctoral education training with Russia, Poland, Ukraine as partners. Within the UK funding was overseen for the RNLI in studying the performance of rigid inflatable boats, both the A and D classes. He has current interests in historic ships and the development of these during the past 500 years. Current research students are working on prediction of turbulence levels associated with flow around offshore structures; the optimisation of a fleet of AUVs; and the performance characteristics of RIBs. Recently he was testing a ship model of USS Somers which was sunk during the Mexico-USA war of 1846-1848. The work was funded by the Arts Council in the UK and the Mexican Research Council
Finally the Lloyd’s Register Foundation collegium is being funded this year for the third time with 25 researchers fully funded for a period of nine weeks to study Eco-cities.
Linear interaction between compressibility and a gravity field for barotropic fluids
The effect of flexibility on the design and performance of inflatable boats, plus environmental considerations
Optimisation of a fleet of AUVs to minimise energy dissipation
Novel statistical approaches to chemical, biological or radiological source term estimation
Assessment of the effectiveness of fuel cell as an alternative technology for marine propulsion systems
Development of Printed Smart Fabric Sensors for the Marine Industry
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Biography
Professor Philip A Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Ship Dynamics within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Philip studied Mathematics for his first degree at the University of Leicester and was subsequently awarded a DSc by publication by the University of Leicester. Following work for Plessey Underwater systems he started in the University of Southampton in 1973 as a research fellow in the former Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as part of the fledgling Ship Science group. He is a founder member of the former Department of Ship Science and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Currently he is the founding editor of the International Journal of Maritime Engineering of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. He has published more than 350 academic papers and has appeared in such television programmes as Blue Peter, What Sank the Mary Rose? and as a judge in Scrapheap Challenge. More recently he showed how HMS Queen Mary sank during the Battle of Jutland in the television programme Battle of Jutland: The Royal Navy's Bloodiest battle.
Philip has successfully supervised more than 50 doctoral students in subjects spanning seakeeping, ship manoeuvring, autonomous underwater vehicle control and guidance, sail aerodynamics, preliminary ship design, underwater noise to race car aerodynamics.
He has been the recipient of awards from the Royal Institution of Naval Architects in terms of the medal distinction twice in recent years as well as the award of the Donald Groen medal from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Also he was part of a team was that awarded the RINA-Lloyd’s Register Ship Safety award.
He was also director for more than 15 years, until his retirement, of the multi-University MTEC course which provides education at MSc on a part-time basis for fully employed naval architects, marine engineers and offshore engineers, details at www.mtec.ac.uk.
Prizes
- DSc (2001)
- D Groen medal (1999)
- Medal of Distinction (2007)
- PPE prize (1999)
- Medal of Distinction (2005)
- Medal of Distinction (2009)
- Lloyd's Register Safety Prize (2007)
- FRINA (2001)
- CEng (1997)
- MRINA (1977)
- A low wash design for a river patrol craft with minimal environmental impact. (2008)
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