Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & MARINE ENGINEERING
The NAME faculty include an integrative multi-disciplinary team of experts and researchers focusing on design and engineering analysis of marine vessels and offshore platforms. Current research areas encompass hydrodynamics, marine structures, fluid-structure interaction, dynamics and control, marine renewable energy, structural and hydro-acoustics. Marine vessels and offshore structures must maximize both energy and environmental efficiency (e.g., minimizing GHG emissions and noise pollution) to improve their sustainability. In that regard, the faculty develop and employ advanced tools and techniques for multiphysics and multiscale analysis, design optimization and control of intelligent and green marine vessels and offshore structures. The research area also places a strong emphasis on the education and mentoring of our graduate and undergraduate students by integrating teaching and research activities.
FACULTY
Rajeev Jaiman
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interaction
Research Interests: fluid-structure interaction, computational methods and numerical analysis, data-driven computing, model order reduction, bluff-body flows and flow-induced vibration, flow control and drag reduction, multiphase flows
Jasmin Jelovica
Structural Analysis and Optimization Methods for Marine Vessels
Research Interests: beams, plates and shells; finite element analysis; machine learning and optimization; efficient structural forms
Patrick Kirchen
Combustion
Research Interests: thermochemical energy conversion, combustion, internal combustion engines, ion transport membranes
Jon Mikkelsen
Hydrodynamics and Naval Architecture
Research Interests: ocean renewable energy, development of selective fishing gear, mechanical design
Ryozo Nagamune
Robust and Optimal Control
Research Interests: control engineering: multiple robust control, parameter variation identification, nevanlinna-pick interpolation approach to robust control, machine tool servo control, wind turbine control, automotive engine control, hard disk drive track-following control, robust chatter stability analysis, magnetically actuated microlens control
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