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.
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.
Publications
- 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
- 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
- Design considerations and preliminary hydrodynamic analysis of an offshore decentralised floating wind-hydrogen system
- Rodríguez Castillo Claudio A, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Vol 89, pp. 496-506 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.09.340
- Time-domain fatigue reliability analysis for floating offshore wind turbine substructures using coupled nonlinear aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations
- Zhu Fengshen, Yeter Baran, Brennan Feargal, Collu Maurizio
- Engineering Structures Vol 318 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118759
- Digital twin enabled structural integrity management : critical review and framework development
- Li Shen, Brennan Feargal
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment Vol 238, pp. 707-727 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14750902241227254
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 - 28-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