Professor Feargal Brennan

James Blyth Chair

Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

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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 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.

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Publications

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
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

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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
Supergen ORE Hub 2023
Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Arredondo Galeana, Abel (Researcher)
01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2027
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
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