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 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

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
Numerical analysis of structured sheet material in flexible oscillating water column wave energy converter
Huang Yang, Idarraga Guillermo, Xiao Qing, Yang Liu, Dai Saishuai, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
Proceedings of the ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2024) 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2024-121318
Inspection planning optimisation for offshore energy structures using digital twin
Li Shen, Brennan Feargal
ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2024-122381
Evaluation of a multi-turbine floating platform concept considering wake effect
Li Shen, Brennan Feargal
ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2024-123734
Offshore support structures for green hydrogen systems : Overview and Perspectives
Rodriguez Castillo Claudio Alexis, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering, pp. 1-12 (2024)

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Professional Activities

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

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Projects

Strathclyde Inspire Gate 2 Award
Li, Shen (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator)
Funding to support commercialisation activities
29-Nov-2023
Strathclyde Inspire Gate 1 Award
Li, Shen (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator)
Funding to support patent application
27-Sep-2023
CoTide – Co-design to deliver Scalable Tidal Stream Energy
Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator) Oterkus, Selda (Co-investigator) Stack, Margaret (Co-investigator)
01-Jul-2023 - 30-Jun-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-Apr-2023 - 31-Oct-2023
Assess the performance of an innovative offshore platform for wind turbine
Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Collu, Maurizio (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Zhao, Guangwei (Co-investigator) Black, Steven (Co-investigator)
30-Jan-2023 - 04-Dec-2023
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-Sep-2022 - 01-Mar-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