Professor Feargal Brennan

Head Of Department

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 Head of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering. He is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Strathclyde-Oxford-Cranfield Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) Doctoral Training Centre and Research Director of the Wind & Marine Systems and Structures (WAMSS) Centre for Doctoral Training.

He is the Offshore Wind Champion for the EPSRC Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Programme and Principal Investigator of the major new Ocean-Refuel UKRI EPSRC grant. He sits on the BEIS (UK Government Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) Science Expert Group, SOWEC (The Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council) and the NZTC (Net Zero Technology Centre) academic advisory 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.

Publications

Future offshore floating wind platforms – challenges and opportunities: Liang Yibo, Ioannou Anastasia, Zhang Xiantao, Brennan Feargal; Progress in Energy (2022)
Influence of soil–structure modelling techniques on offshore wind turbine monopile structural response: Sunday Kingsley, Brennan Feargal; Wind Energy Vol 25, pp. 998-1012 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2711
A simplified formula for calculating the limit load of cracked offshore wind turbine monopile under bending: Fajuyigbe A, Brennan F; Marine Structures Vol 83 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marstruc.2022.103164
Cavitation shotless peening effects on fatigue crack growth behaviour under bending loads: Al-Turaihi Ali, Mehmanparast Ali, Brennan Feargal, Soyama Hitoshi; Material Design & Processing Communications Vol 3 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1002/mdp2.88
Floating offshore vertical axis wind turbines : opportunities, challenges and way forward: Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Brennan Feargal; Energies Vol 14 (2021); https://doi.org/10.3390/en14238000
A methodology for the structural design of LiftWEC : a wave-bladed cyclorotor: Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Shi Weichao, Olbert Gerrit, Scharf Martin, Ermakov Andrei, Ringwood John V, Brennan Feargal; The 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (2021)

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Professional activities

9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering: Organiser; 2/6/2021

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Projects

Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) ‎- Bridging the Gaps (BTG) – Net Zero / Circular Economy: Javadi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Lotfian, Saeid (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator); In-situ Robotic and Ultrasonic Stress Measurement for Predictive ‎Maintenance of Offshore Wind Bolted Flange Connections; 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
REMS EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Marine Structures | Ermakova, Anna: Mehmanparast, Ali (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Ermakova, Anna (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
REMS EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Marine Structures | Annoni, Alessandro: Mehmanparast, Ali (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Annoni, Alessandro (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
Ocean Renewable Energy Fuel (OCEAN-REFuel): Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Collu, Maurizio (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2026
Bionic Adaptive Stretchable Materials for WEC (BASM-WEC): Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator) Bomphray, Iain (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Day, Sandy (Co-investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
NEPTUNE CMDC: Boulougouris, Evangelos (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022

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Henry Dyer Building

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