Advanced Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures

Professor Longbin Tao is currently working in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde since 2017, Longbin Tao received his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2002 for research on offshore hydrodynamics. In 2008, he was appointed Lloyd's Register Chair Professor of Offshore Engineering at Newcastle University (UK) and had held the position for nine years. Before moving to the UK, he lectured at Griffith University in Australia from 2001 to 2008. Longbin's primary research interests are in offshore engineering and offshore renewable energy systems. In addition to academic research, he was employed as an engineer at Maritime Safety in China and naval architect at a shipbuilding company in Australia from 1988 to 1997. Throughout his academic and professional career, Longbin has led and participated many external-funded research and knowledge transfer projects, and published over 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences

Dr Martin Nuernberg received his PhD in Marine Technology from Newcastle University in 2017, for experimental and numerical work on tidal stream turbine array hydrodynamics and has worked as a research fellow in the field of offshore hydrodynamics and mooring system design at Strathclyde University from 2017 to 2019. Since 2015 he has been the director of a specialist engineering consultancy and offshore service vessel provider to the offshore wind industry as well as being actively involved in a number of research and development projects. His main research interests lie within the field of offshore hydrodynamics and mooring solutions for renewable energy application as well as in the design and development of innovative offshore supply vessels.

Longfei Xiao, Ph.D., Tenure Professor in School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He has worked in the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering since 1998, and as a Senior Visiting Scholar at Newcastle University in UK from 2013 to 2014. His scope of research work consists of hydrodynamics of floating offshore structures with focus on physical and numerical modelling of environments, motions and loads of floating platforms, deep sea mining system, and fluid-structure interactions. He has completed more than 60 research projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, and etc. In recent five years, he has been awarded 25 invention patents and published more than 90 papers. He has jointly won the Second Prize of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress in 2018.