About the project
In this project you will have the opportunity to develop and test novel methodologies to extract ship hydrodynamic characteristics from a focused set of tests. The ambition is to disrupt conventional approaches, by exploring novel hydrodynamic test and evaluation practices.
Ship model testing is expensive and time consuming. Can we derive hydrodynamic seakeeping and manoeuvring characteristics with focused datasets, eliminating time consuming single variable investigations?
In this project you will have the opportunity to develop and test novel methodologies to extract ship hydrodynamic characteristics from a focused set of tests. You will benefit from the use of world class facilities including the 138x6x3.5m University of Southampton Boldrewood towing tank and 120x60x5m QinetiQ Ocean Basin. In addition, support, advice and guidance from industrial partners and the PhD supervisors Dr Townsend and Professor Hudson.
The research, exploring the cyber-physical domain for enhanced hydrodynamic test and evaluation, ambition is to disrupt conventional approaches and accelerate research and development cycles.
You will be based in the Maritime Engineering group. You will have access to a large array of facilities, networking opportunities and training throughout the program.
