Dr Zhiming Yuan
Reader
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
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
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
Publications
- Adaptive backstepping sliding mode control for an under-actuated Dish-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle
- Sun Yu, Kong Linghui, Zhu Zijian, Zhang Ming, Yuan Zhiming, Du Peizhou
- Ocean Engineering Vol 358 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.125835
- 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
- Dynamic coupling mechanism and parametric study of mooring chain–seabed interaction based on a global-to-local nested modeling approach
- Li Xiang, Yin Qilin, Li Kejiang, Yuan Zhiming, Zhou Yijun
- Ocean Engineering Vol 353 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124701
- Influence of WEC geometric variables on the performance of an integrated WEC–VLFS system
- Wu Haitao, Yuan Zhiming
- Ocean Engineering Vol 352 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124470
- Collision avoidance decision-making method for unmanned surface vehicles considering uncertain navigation intent of target ships
- Li Yuqin, Wu Defeng, Li Guoqiang, Fan Zhenhong, Yuan Zhi-Ming
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Vol 27, pp. 4750 - 4765 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2025.3649489
- Coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic analysis of advanced wet-towing schemes for the IEA 15MW floating wind turbine
- Tang Yichang, Chen Mingsheng, Chen Yingjie, Yu Ning, Wu Jiaxi, Jiang Xingyu, Liu Suqian, Yuan Zhi-Ming
- Ocean Engineering Vol 356 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.125321
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
- 7th International Conference on Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water
- Participant
- 18/5/2025
- 40th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies
- Participant
- 11/5/2025
- National Taiwan University
- Visiting researcher
- 4/2025
- PhD examiner
- Examiner
- 3/2025
- BSI Committee SME/32 – Ships and Marine Technology (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 12/2024
- China Ocean Engineering (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 11/2024
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
- Hydrogen Floating Powerhub - Feasibility Study
- Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Khaled (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Li, Shen (Co-investigator) Turan, Osman (Co-investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- 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
- EPSRC and NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Renewable Energy 2 (IDCORE 2) | McAlister, Liam
- Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator) McAlister, Liam (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- Subsea and Pipeline Engineering & Management (RAE Visiting Professor- Ibrahim Hussein Fahmy Mohamed Abdelaty)
- Yuan, Zhiming (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
Contact
Dr
Zhiming
Yuan
Reader
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: zhiming.yuan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3308