
Dr David Dai
Senior Lecturer
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
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Prize And Awards
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane Award
- Recipient
- 23/6/2022
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Publications
- Wave energy harvesting performance of a novel Dual-mode Oscillating Buoy- Parabolic Oscillating Water Column (DOB-POWC) hybrid system
- Liu Weifeng, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
- Renewable Energy Vol 248 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.123157
- Bio-inspired adaptive flexible tube wave energy eonverters : resonant fluid-structure interaction and power extraction
- Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Idarraga Alarcon Guillermo, Yang Liu, Dai David, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
- Physics of Fluids (2025)
- Evaluation of Push-Pull manoeuvring mode for a naval ship using CFD
- Min Gyeongseo, Choi Wooseok, Yun Haechan, Kim Kangmin, Terziev Momchil, Dai David, Kim Daejeong, Song Soonseok
- Ocean Engineering Vol 330 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121143
- Harmonic decomposition of forces and estimates of reduced mean flow in jackets subjected to waves and current
- Archer Aidan J, Taylor Paul H, Wolgamot Hugh, Orszaghova Jana, Dai Saishuai
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 1009 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2025.180
- 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
- Modelling and testing of hinged connected VLFS with applicability to offshore renewables
- Arredondo-Galeana Abel, Li Shen, Dai David, Collu Maurizio
- Large Floating Solutions Design, Construction, Legality of Offshore Structures and Buoyant Urbanism (2025) (2025)
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Teaching
NM978: Physical Testing of Offshore Renewable Energy Systems.
NM423: Seakeeping and Manoeuvring.
NM522/969: Renewable Marine Energy Systems.
IDCORE CDT: Fluids and Structures.
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Professional Activities
- Strategic Themes: EPSRC Critical Mass Programmes to Drive a Sustainable Future
- Participant
- 30/1/2025
- Renewable Energy (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 11/1/2024
- 50 primary school pupils
- Host
- 2/11/2023
- Applied Sciences (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2023
- Marine Structures (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2023
- Kelvin hydrodynamics Laboratory and recent research activities
- Speaker
- 7/8/2022
Projects
- Low Cost Underwater Glider
- Aktas, Batuhan (Principal Investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Lazakis, Iraklis (Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Model stability training for Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Dai, David (Principal Investigator)
- 26-Jan-2024 - 27-Jan-2024
- 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
- Offshore Floating Structures (RAE visiting professor scheme -Dr Aijun Wang LIoyds Register)
- Dai, David (Principal Investigator)
- 16-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
- Computational Optimisation of the Vortex Turbine
- Terziev, Momchil (Principal Investigator) Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Principal Investigator) Iqbal, Muhammad (Research Co-investigator)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling and optimisation of a propriatery renewable energy device.
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- Underwater Radiation noise
- Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Black, Steven (Co-investigator) Jia, Laibing (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2024
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Contact
Dr
David
Dai
Senior Lecturer
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: saishuai.dai@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 330 2650