Dr David Dai
Senior Lecturer
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Personal statement
Dr Saishuai (David) Dai has been a research assistant (2015-2016), then a research associate (2016-2020) and then a research fellow (2020-2023) in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. Since 2023, Dr Dai has taken on the role of the director of the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory and a lecturership in the department.
Dr Dai's research mainly focuses on hydrodynamics tank testing and CFD simulations of hydrodynamics problems, including but not limited to offshore renewable energy (wind, wave, tidal), conventional floating structures (floating/fixed oil&gas platforms) and offshore vessels.
Prize And Awards
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane Award
- Recipient
- 23/6/2022
Publications
- Experimental investigation of hydroelastic response and resonance characteristics in Anaconda wave energy converter
- Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Dai Saishuai, Cui Lin, Yang Liu, Lotfian Saeid, Abad Farhad, Idarraga Guillermo, Brennan Feargal
- Ocean Engineering (2025)
- 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
Teaching
NM978: Physical Testing of Offshore Renewable Energy Systems.
NM423: Seakeeping and Manoeuvring.
NM522/969: Renewable Marine Energy Systems.
IDCORE CDT: Fluids and Structures.
Professional Activities
- Facility Showcase Event
- Participant
- 20/5/2025
- Strategic Themes: EPSRC Critical Mass Programmes to Drive a Sustainable Future
- Participant
- 30/1/2025
- EPSRC Scoping Worskhop (Critical mass)
- 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
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
Contact
Dr
David
Dai
Senior Lecturer
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: saishuai.dai@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 330 2650