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 60 journal articles on these areas. I is currently acting as the Scientific Managing Editor for Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, Coastal Engineering, and Marine Structures, 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 £1M 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
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;
- 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
- The 2nd International Conference on Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
- Participant
- 28/5/2023
- Ocean Engineering (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/2023
- Keynote presentation "Lessens learnt from ducklings"
- Speaker
- 6/2022
- PhD examiner
- Examiner
- 5/2022
- IWWWFB 2022
- Participant
- 4/2022
- External examiner at Uni. Malta
- Examiner
- 2/2022
More professional activities
Projects
- 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
- KTP - TechnipFMC - Floating Wind Analysis: development of reliable and cost-efficient mooring solutions
- Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Project ZERO - Zero Emission Research and Offshore Service Vessel
- Tao, Longbin (Principal Investigator) Shi, Weichao (Co-investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- REDEFINE ENERGY EFFICIENCY SOLUTIONS FOR HYDROGEN POWERED SHIPS IN MARITIME AND INLAND TRANSPORT
- Shi, Weichao (Principal Investigator) Atlar, Mehmet (Co-investigator) Jia, Laibing (Co-investigator) Tao, Longbin (Co-investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- Hydrodynamics of an integrated WEC-breakwater system under extreme wave conditions
- Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Co-investigator) Shi, Weichao (Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2024
- MarRI-UK (SMLO call): Land, Sea and Port Integration of a Smart Hydrogen Highway (Funded by MarRI-UK, DfT UK: £1,320,706.48; UOS: £271,687.92)
- Tao, Longbin (Principal Investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator) Shi, Weichao (Co-investigator)
- MarRI-UK Smart Maritime Land Operations (SMLO) call (DfT UK)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
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Henry Dyer
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