Professor Feargal Brennan

James Blyth Chair

Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

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Personal statement

Feargal Brennan is the James Blyth Distinguished Professor of Offshore Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

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 sits on the UK Government Department of Energy Security and Net Zero Science Expert Group, SOWEC (The Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council) the NZTC (Net Zero Technology Centre) academic advisory board and the GUH (Global Underwater Hub) board.  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 London Court of International Arbitration.

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Publications

Digital twin-enhanced risk-based inspection for offshore structures considering fatigue cracks
Li Shen, Brennan Feargal
Innovations in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures (2025)
Comparative design space exploration of centred and off-centred semisubmersible configurations for floating offshore wind turbines
Rodríguez Castillo Claudio A, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
Ocean Engineering Vol 324 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.120740
Bio-inspired adaptive flexible tube wave energy eonverters : resonant fluid-structure interaction and power extraction
Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Idarraga Alarcon Guillermo, Yang Liu, Dai David, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
Physics of Fluids (2025)
Oscillating water column wave energy converter with flexible structured sheet material for enhanced power output
Huang Yang, Idarraga Guillermo, Abad Farhad, Xiao Qing, Yang Liu, Dai Saishuai, Lotfian Saeid, Brennan Feargal
Energy Conversion and Management Vol 333 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2025.119794
Laboratory-scale validation of modal expansion for virtual sensing of offshore tubular structures
Annoni Alessandro, Gaubert Marie, Li Shen, Dai David, Li Mingxin, Zang Jun, Brennan Feargal
13th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures (2024)
Hyperelastic behaviour of elastomers for wave energy applications
Idarraga Guillermo, Yang Liu, Abad Farhad, Huang Yang, Dai Saishuai, Xiao Qing, Lotfian Saeid, Brennan Feargal
Ocean Engineering Vol 313 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119652

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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

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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

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Professor Feargal Brennan
James Blyth Chair
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

Email: feargal.brennan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4093