Professor Feargal Brennan
James Blyth Chair
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Personal statement
Feargal Brennan is the James Blyth Distinguished Professor of Offshore Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
He is Research Director of the Wind & Marine Systems and Structures (WAMSS) Centre for Doctoral Training. He is a Director and the Offshore Wind Champion for the EPSRC Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Programme, Principal Investigator of Ocean-Refuel and Co-Investigator of the CoTide UKRI/EPSRC Programmes. He is a member of the UK Government Department of Energy Security and Net Zero STAC (Science and Technology Advisory Council) among other advisory roles both nationally and internationally. He is the UK standing member and leader of the UK delegation to the ISSC (International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress) and has served as expert witness for commercial offshore wind litigation cases at the High Court in London and the London Court of International Arbitration.
Publications
- A hybrid floating wind-wave energy platform for minimum power baseload
- Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Scarlett Gabriel Thomas, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
- Ocean Engineering (2025)
- Structural integrity evolution of composite tidal turbine materials : correlating surface roughness with progressive erosive damage
- Habibi Payvand, Algaddaime Talal F, Abad Farhad, Stack Margaret M, Mehmanparast Ali, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
- Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics Vol 139 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2025.105076
- Hinged connected platforms for floating tidal turbines
- Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Chen Yongqiang, Dai Saishuai, Zhang Xiantao, Brennan Feargal
- Proceedings of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Vol 16 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.36688/ewtec-2025-1034
- Probabilistic failure assessment diagram with reliability update
- Li Shen, Brennan Feargal
- Applied Ocean Research Vol 162 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2025.104702
- Synergising Floating Wind and Hydrogen Production and Storage: Insights From the HyFloat Concept
- Rodríguez Castillo Claudio Alexis, Dai Saishuai, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
- ASME 2025 44th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering 44th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1115/omae2025-157614
- Experimental investigation of hydroelastic response and resonance characteristics in Anaconda wave energy converter
- Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Dai Saishuai, Cui Lin, Yang Liu, Lotfian Saeid, Abad Farhad, Idarraga Guillermo, Brennan Feargal
- Ocean Engineering Vol 334 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121554
Professional Activities
- Digital twin for risk-based structural integrity management of offshore structures
- Contributor
- 2/2025
- 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering
- Organiser
- 2/6/2021
Projects
- COLLU_OSI_ATLP_DLC12
- Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Li, Shen (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator)
- 10-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Strathclyde Inspire Gate 2 Award
- Li, Shen (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator)
- Funding to support commercialisation activities
- 29-Jan-2023
- Strathclyde Inspire Gate 1 Award
- Li, Shen (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator)
- Funding to support patent application
- 27-Jan-2023
- CoTide – Co-design to deliver Scalable Tidal Stream Energy
- Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator) Oterkus, Selda (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2028
- Supergen ORE Hub 2023
- Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Arredondo Galeana, Abel (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2027
- Oil States Industries ATLP review and analysis
- Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Feargal
Brennan
James Blyth Chair
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: feargal.brennan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4093