
Dr Zhiming Yuan
Reader
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
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Prize And Awards
- Ig Nobel Prize
- Recipient
- 9/2022
- External examiner for PhD
- Recipient
- 12/2019
- Best Reviewer of NAOME
- Recipient
- 11/2018
- Distinguished Professor
- Recipient
- 10/2018
- Visiting Professor
- Recipient
- 7/2018
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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:
- Offshore renewable energy system, including offshore wind, solar and wave energy;
- Controllability and autonomous ships;
- Offshore hydrogen;
- Floating Offshore PV;
- Hydrodynamics of ship and offshore structures;
- Multibody hydrodynamic interaction and wave interference;
- Ship-bottom, Ship-bank, Ship-lock, Ship-ship interactions;
- Very large floating structures;
- Real-time control of wave energy converters;
- 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
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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Contact
Dr
Zhiming
Yuan
Reader
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: zhiming.yuan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3308