This research area is focused on fluid behaviour in the maritime environment and in particular the interface between the interpretation of analysis (be it experimental, numerical or theoretical) and maritime design.? Areas of expertise include:

• maritime computational fluid dynamics CFD
• safety and the environment
• high performance computing
• experimental aero/hydrodynamics
• ship manoeuvring, propulsion and thrusters

Some of our recent research projects are:

• Mechanical and hydrodynamic design of integrated electric thrusters for ROVs with novel design of foil sections for bi-directional propellers
• Computational analysis and design of high performance rudders
• Automated computational mesh generation for complex hull forms, control surfaces and marine propulsors
• CFD code development including 3D surface panel code (PALISUPAN) and 3D Euler solvers using flow and grid quality driven mesh adaptation
• Investigation of unsteady flow behind bluff bodies using Large Eddy and Detached Eddy Simulation and associated wind tunnel tests
• System identification techniques applied to flow feature capture and in particular vortex capture using mesh adaptation
• Wind turbine design, section analysis and experimental testing
• Interaction of arrays of tidal current generators
• Rudder-Propeller-Hull interaction and influence on ship manoeuvring, including extensive wind tunnel testing
• Hydrodynamic shape optimization for underwater vehicles using numerical evaluations of self-propulsion and manouvering
• Turbulent Taylor-Couette flow in small gap/diameter ratio geometries
• Coupled fluid-structure analysis of marine structures
• Interface of CAD to CFD and model creation using 5-axis model cutting machine
• Computational prediction of yacht aero/hydrodynamics including evaluation upwind performance of 14th Century Hanse Cog