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
- Advancing floating offshore wind turbine construction from the perspective of wet towing using a tugboat with autonomous control
- Tang Yichang, Chen Mingsheng, Yuan Zhiming, Jiang Xingyu, Yu Ning, Li Tingqiu, Choo Yoo Sang
- Marine Structures Vol 107 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marstruc.2025.103973
- Wave energy harvesting of a floating membrane carpet tethered by array-arranged power take-off units
- Teng Zhiyuan, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
- Renewable Energy Vol 254 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.123744
- Design sea state assessment via IFORM-based environmental contour approach derived with Gaussian mixture model
- Zhao Yuliang, Dong Sheng, Liang Bingchen, Yuan Zhi-Ming, Incecik Atilla
- Ocean Engineering Vol 340 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.122259
- Performance investigation of an oscillating-body WEC with the tristable energy capture mechanism
- Wu Haitao, Yuan Zhiming
- Ocean Engineering (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.123538
- A new web-type concept of floating photovoltaic farms in open sea environment
- Yuan Zhiming, Yu Shuangrui, Incecik Atilla
- Engineering (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2025.10.002
- Enhancing wave energy conversion by multi-floating bodies arrayed within near-trapping modes
- Yu Jianyou, Cheng Yong, Dai Saishuai, Li Mingxin, Yuan Zhiming, Incecik Atilla
- Energy Vol 329 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.136756
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
- Workshop on Environmental Technologies in Navel Architecture and Ocean Engineering 2024 (WETNAOE 2024)
- Participant
- 11/2024
Projects
- 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
- 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
Contact
Dr
Zhiming
Yuan
Reader
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: zhiming.yuan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3308