Professor Atilla Incecik
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Personal statement
Atilla Incecik is Professor of Offshore Engineering. During the last sixteen years he served as the Head of Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, and Associate Principal and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Professor Incecik’s research activities include the development of hydrodynamic design and analysis tools and model testing of marine and offshore engineering systems, including marine renewable energy devices. Professor Incecik was the Research Manager of Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) and is a Chair Professor at Zhejiang University. Professor Incecik was Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Engineering Journal between 2006 and 2023. In 2019 Professor Incecik was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in recognition of his research on green shipping and environmental sustainability. In 2022, Professor Incecik was recipient of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects’ William Froude Medal awarded for making a conspicuous contribution to naval architecture and/or shipbuilding. The William Froude Medal is the Institution’s highest award for professional achievement. In 2022 Professor Incecik was awarded the Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies (CEMT) award in recognition of his ‘significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the field of ocean engineering’.
Prize And Awards
- The David W. Taylor Medal
- Recipient
- 2025
- William Froude Gold Medal
- Recipient
- 2022
- The Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Tekn Dr h.c.
- Recipient
- 2019
- OMAE Subrata Chakrabarti Young Professional Award 2017
- Recipient
- 2017
Publications
- Energy harvesting and wave attenuation performance of a floating flexible annulus-shaped wave energy converter
- Teng Zhiyuan, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
- Ocean Engineering Vol 358 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.125872
- RETRACTED: Measuring liquid droplet size in two-phase nozzle flow employing numerical and experimental analyses
- Lin Jianguo, Rao Wei, Deng Lei, Incecik Atilla, Królczyk Grzegorz M, Li Zhixiong
- Micromachines Vol 13 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13050684
- Environmental consequences of ship-induced drawdown in shallow waterways
- Kang Naiyu, Terziev Momchil, Incecik Atilla
- Estuarine Management and Technologies Journal Vol 3, pp. 123–134 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.3897/emt.3.188082
- Hydroelastic performance of a flexible pontoon-type floating breakwater embedded with multiple oscillating-water-column devices
- Hu Yinong, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
- Renewable Energy Vol 259 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.125065
- Wave energy harvesting of a floating membrane carpet tethered by array-arranged power take-off units
- Teng Zhiyuan, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
- Renewable Energy Vol 254 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.123744
- Design sea state assessment via IFORM-based environmental contour approach derived with Gaussian mixture model
- Zhao Yuliang, Dong Sheng, Liang Bingchen, Yuan Zhi-Ming, Incecik Atilla
- Ocean Engineering Vol 340 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.122259
Professional Activities
- Marine Energy Research (Journal)
- Editor
- 1/7/2025
- International Conference on Large Floating Offshore Structures
- Participant
- 9/10/2024
- Webinar: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Researchers in Scotland and Japan
- Speaker
- 15/3/2024
- Malta University
- Visiting researcher
- 16/5/2022
- Decarbonising inland waterway transportation in the UK
- Speaker
- 23/2/2021
- Gongxing Wu
- Host
- 16/7/2019
Projects
- Survivability of Floating Offshore Solar Farms under Extreme Weather Conditions (International Joint Project)
- Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Co-investigator) Terziev, Momchil (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 29-Jan-2028
- Analysis for a wave energy converter
- Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2029
- High-resolution ship-environment hydrodynamic interaction (Naiyu Kang)
- Terziev, Momchil (Principal Investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Principal Investigator)
- Student Excellence Award for Naiyu Kang to carry out a PhD on the project 'High-resolution ship-environment hydrodynamic interaction.'
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- Development of short-term wave prediction method for the motion control of offshore installation and crew transfer vessels
- Incecik, Atilla (Principal Investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 28-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
- Strathclyde Inspire Gate 2 Award
- Terziev, Momchil (Principal Investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Principal Investigator)
- Funding to support commercialisation activities
- 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Atilla
Incecik
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: atilla.incecik@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3144