Dr Zhiming Yuan

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Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

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Personal statement

I have been a Lecturer (2014-2019), then a Senior Lecturer (2019-2022), and then a Reader (2022- ) in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. I received my PhD degree at Strathclyde in 2014 on Ocean Engineering. My research activity mainly focused on the Marine Hydrodynamics and Offshore Renewable Energy, and I have published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on these areas. I is currently acting as the Deputy Editor of Ocean Engineering, and editorial board member for couple of international journals. I am an ITTC committee member and sectary of ITTC Maneuvering Committee. I has been the PI/CoI for more than 10 research projects, securing more than £3M grants from various funding sources, and I was invited by Prof. Ronald Yeung to carry out joint research at UC Berkeley under Sir David Anderson Bequest Award. I am currently leading the Hydrodynamics and Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory (HOREL) at Strathclyde, acting as the first supervisor of 9 PhD students. My research work on wave interference has been selected as Focus on Fluids article of Journal of Fluid Mechanics and highlighted by Nature (Nature. 565(7741):538), and these works have also been widely reported by TheTimes, DailyMail, Today Headline, ScienceNews, etc. In 2022, I shared the Ig Nobel prize in the field of Physics for “trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation”. 

For more information about our research group, please visit our webpage Hydrodynamics & Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory @ Strathclyde

 

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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
WEC spacing effects on the performance of a floating energy harvesting platform
Wu Haitao, Yuan Zhiming
Ocean Engineering Vol 327 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.120971
A time-domain BEM for instantaneous interaction by two ships head-on encountering in incident waves
Zhang Xiao, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Li Mingxin, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements Vol 172 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2025.106128
Resistance experiments on ships in a leader-follower formation
Zhu Fengshen, Dai David, Yuan Zhiming
Physics of Fluids Vol 37 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0249171
Dynamic response characteristics of floating offshore photovoltaic systems with anchor position deviations under extreme environmental conditions
Du Jun-Feng, Zhang De-Qing, Jin Tao, Zhu Feng-Shen, Yuan Zhi-Ming, Incecik Atilla
Physics of Fluids Vol 37 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253742
Dynamic analysis and experimental testing of a multi-tagline anti-sway and positioning system for slender-beam payload lifting during offshore operations
Sun Maokai, Deng Wanru, Sun Zewen, Han Guangdong, Wang Shenghai, Zhang Hongpeng, Wei Yi, Sun Yuqing, Yuan Zhiming
Ocean Engineering Vol 315 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119790

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Research Interests

The recent research directions carried out by my group include:

  1. Offshore renewable energy system, including offshore wind, solar and wave energy;
  2. Controllability and autonomous ships;
  3. Offshore hydrogen;
  4. Floating Offshore PV;
  5. Hydrodynamics of ship and offshore structures;
  6. Multibody hydrodynamic interaction and wave interference;
  7. Ship-bottom, Ship-bank, Ship-lock, Ship-ship interactions;
  8. Very large floating structures;
  9. Real-time control of wave energy converters;
  10. Free surface waves and the bio-mimetic study on animal swim.

Professional Activities

BSI Committee SME/32 – Ships and Marine Technology (External organisation)
Advisor
12/2024
China Ocean Engineering (Journal)
Peer reviewer
11/2024
International Conference on Large Floating Offshore Structures
Participant
9/10/2024
Lecture on Wave interference between multiple floating bodies
Speaker
2024
The Royal Institute of Naval Architects (RINA) (External organisation)
Advisor
2024
BSI Committee SME/32 – Ships and Marine Technology (External organisation)
Advisor
2024

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Projects

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
CPD course on seakeeping and manoeuvring
Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Terziev, Momchil (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2026
Subsea and Pipeline Engineering & Management (RAE Visiting Professor- Ibrahim Hussein Fahmy Mohamed Abdelaty)
Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
Tank Testing of Hydrogen Offshore Transfer System
Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator) Shi, Weichao (Co-investigator) Tao, Longbin (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
Hydrodynamic testing of a jacket platform under wave and current loading
Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Black, Steven (Co-investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator) Zhao, Guangwei (Co-investigator)
03-Jan-2023 - 09-Jan-2023
A low-cost wind load modelling technique for offshore floating wind tank testing (International Exchanges 2022)
Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Jia, Laibing (Co-investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
31-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026

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Dr Zhiming Yuan
Reader
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

Email: zhiming.yuan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3308