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

Near wake hydrodynamics and structural design of a single foil cycloidal rotor in regular waves: Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Olbert Gerrit, Shi Weichao, Brennan Feargal; Renewable Energy Vol 206, pp. 1020-1035 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.02.068
Hyperelastic modelling of elastomers for wave energy convertors: Idarraga Guillermo, Yang Liu, Abad Farhad, Huang Yang, Dai David, Xiao Qing, Lotfian Saeid, Brennan Feargal; Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2023)
Control strategies for power enhancement and fatigue damage mitigation of wave cycloidal rotors: Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Ermakov Andrei, Shi Weichao, Ringwood John V, Brennan Feargal; (2022); https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4346306
A framework for optimal sensor placement to support structural health monitoring: Li Shen, Coraddu Andrea, Brennan Feargal; Journal of Marine Science and Engineering Vol 10 (2022); https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10121819
Near wake hydrodynamics and structural design of a single foil cycloidal rotor in regular waves: Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Olbert Gerrit, Shi Weichao, Brennan Feargal; (2022); https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4239352
Estimating stress intensity factor for semi elliptical circumferential cracks in offshore wind turbine monopiles using weight functions: Fajuyigbe Ayodele, Brennan F; Ageing and Life Extension of Offshore Facilities (2022) (2022); https://doi.org/10.1115/1.885789_ch10

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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 | Annoni, Alessandro: Mehmanparast, Ali (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Annoni, Alessandro (Research Co-investigator); 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
Ocean Renewable Energy Fuel (OCEAN-REFuel): Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Collu, Maurizio (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2026
NEPTUNE CMDC: Boulougouris, Evangelos (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
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

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Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
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