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 comprehensive fatigue test programme to better understand offshore steel monopile durability
- Brennan Feargal, Mehmanparast Ali
- Marine Structures Vol 109 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marstruc.2026.104078
- Adapting floating offshore wind-hydrogen systems for emerging markets : the case of the Ica region, Peru
- Rodríguez Claudio A, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
- Marine Systems & Ocean Technology Vol 21 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40868-026-00215-1
- Experimental motion and load comparison of rigidly and hinged connected very large floating platforms
- Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Chen Yongqiang, Dai Saishuai, Zhang Xiantao, Brennan Feargal
- Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science Vol 11, pp. 222-237 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joes.2025.11.008
- A hybrid floating wind-wave energy platform for minimum power baseload
- Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Scarlett Gabriel Thomas, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
- Ocean Engineering Vol 343 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.123090
- Multiphysics analysis of a flexible oscillating water column wave energy converter with dielectric elastomer membrane
- Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Yang Liu, Dai Saishuai, Lotfian Saeid, Brennan Feargal
- Journal of Fluids and Structures Vol 140 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2025.104447
- Virtual sensing of offshore tubular structures using Kalman Filter estimation
- Li Shen, Wang Jinsheng, Brennan Feargal
- 19th International Symposium on Tubular Structures (2025)
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