Professor Qing Xiao
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Personal statement
I joined the University of Strathclyde in 2007 and I’m currently a Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering. I am committed teaching in thermodynamics, heat transfer, energy system management, marine pipeline and computational fluid dynamics.
I have more than 25 years of research experience in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) field with extensive experience ranging from numerical simulation of aerodynamic compressible flow to bio-mimetic and ocean renewable energy incompressible flow. My main research interests lie in the application of CFD for flow analysis of bio-inspired studies and ocean renewable energy. Some of my main research themes include the physical phenomena associated with a flapping wing and swimming fish with their applications in bioinspired under-water robots; flapping-based tidal energy device; the offshore renewable energy devices such as tidal turbine, the fixed and floating wind turbine; wave energy converter and offshore fluid-structure interaction such as Vortex Induced Vibration.
In addition to my extensive research activities, I am currently an ITTC Ocean Engineering Committee member, Associated Editor of OMAE Journal, Editorial Board member of Ocean Engineering; a senior member of AIAA, member of OMAE.
For more information please visit our research team webpage:
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/qing.xiao/
Prize And Awards
- OMAE Subrata Chakrabarti Young Professional Award 2017
- Recipient
- 2017
- Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards 2013
- Recipient
- 2013
Publications
- Developing an OpenFOAM solver for coupled aero-hydrodynamic analysis of integrated structure with floating offshore wind turbine and aquaculture net cage
- Cai Yefeng, Zhao Haisheng, Li Xin, Shi Wei, Xiao Qing
- Coastal Engineering Vol 198 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104720
- 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)
- Aeroelastic investigations of composite blade on floating offshore wind turbine : insights into stress responses on multi-hierarchy blade structures
- Deng ZhongSheng, Xiao Qing, Yang Liu, Liu YuanChuan, Wang Enhao
- Ocean Engineering Vol 330 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121305
- 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)
- 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
- Improving power stability in floating offshore wind turbines through control systems : an aero-hydro-servo-elastic study
- Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Wan Decheng
- Ocean Engineering Vol 329 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121116
Professional Activities
- Keynote presentation on modelling and control of bio-inspired autonomous underwater vehicles
- Contributor
- 26/4/2023
- 29th International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC)
- Participant
- 13/6/2021
- Energies (Journal)
- Guest editor
- 5/2021
- ASME 2021 International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, IOWTC2020
- Participant
- 16/2/2021
- Chinese Journal of Ship Research (Journal)
- Advisory Board Member
- 2021
- Taiwan Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (Publisher)
- Advisory Board Member
- 1/2021
Projects
- Bionic Adaptive Stretchable Materials for WEC (BASM-WEC)
- Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator) Huang, Yang (Co-investigator)
- This project aims to develop an advanced numerical modelling tool to investigate the fluid-flexible structure-interaction mechanism of Wave Energy Converters (WECs) and Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs). The focus is on studying the impact of elasticity on the aero- and hydro-elastic responses of these structures using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) approach. The current state-of-the-art modelling tools for flexible structures in Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) have limitations in accurately predicting complex behaviours and non-linear strain-stress relationships.
The methodology involves expanding existing computational tools to incorporate hyper-elastic material models and using a multi-physics simulation approach with the help of open-source codes. The project team requires powerful supercomputer resources to handle large-scale simulations of 3D flexible WEC and FOWT cases. The successful implementation of this project will have significant implications for the ORE industry and contribute to the well-being of the UK people. - 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Digital Twin model of Floating offshore wind turbine with fully coupled aero-hydrodynamic simulation (JARA Studentship External Funding - Kobe Hoi Yin Yung)
- Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Offshore Inspection Sensor Technology Review for Modular Magnetic Bio-Inspired Autonomous Underwater Robot
- Wright, Marvin Stuart (Co-investigator) Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator)
- IAA Commercialisation funding for bio-inspired underwater robot prototype.
- 15-Jan-2022 - 15-Jan-2023
- EPSRC IAA - Offshore Inspection Sensor Technology Review for Modular Magnetic Bio-Inspired Autonomous Underwater Robot
- Xiao, Qing (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- Multiphysics Study on Flexible Material Applications in Ocean Renewable Energy
- Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator) Li, Xiang (Co-investigator) Deng, Zhongsheng (Co-investigator)
- Access to Tier-2 Cirrus Service, 4.0 million CPU hours, £38,704
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Strathclyde Inspired Gate 2 Award
- Wright, Marvin Stuart (Principal Investigator) Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator)
- Funding Award to Support Commercialisation Opportunity
- 30-Jan-2022
Contact
Professor
Qing
Xiao
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: qing.xiao@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4779