Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Lecturer in Naval Architecture, Ship Manoeuvring and Control, High Speed Craft Hydrodynamics

Qualifications

DSc Newcastle 2002
PhD London 1976
BSc(Eng) London 1961
DLC Loughborough 1960
FRINA 1980
CEng 1971

Research Roles

Dr. Clarke joined the previous Department with many years of industrial experience at the former BSRA, where he was responsible for initiating and managing research activities over a wide range of hydrodynamics, structures and other naval architectural topics.

He has also carried out research into ship manoeuvring and control over many years and was concerned in a four-year managed programme concerned with the effect of trailing vortices on the calculation of ship stability derivatives. Recently he has just completed his involvement in a three-year EU funded project concerned with the steering of ships with podded propulsion.

His other interests include the hydrodynamics and stability of high speed planing craft, as well as the use of virtual reality displays within simulators for ship manoeuvring and port approach training.

Dr. Clarke has also taken a leading role in chairing several technical committees at IMO and ITTC. He is currently the Secretary to the Executive Committee of ITTC, which is concerned with the organisation of the 24th ITTC Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in September 2005.

Projects

• FASTPOD - Fast Ship Applications for Pod Drives
  Project Leader(s): Professor Mehmet Atlar

Undergraduate Teaching

Marine Dynamics (MAR 201)
Ship Structures IB (MAR 207)
Ship Structures IIA (MAR 319) Module Leader.
Offshore Studies (MAR 325)
High Speed and Advanced Craft (MAR329)

• Atlar M, Clarke D, Glover EJ, McLean D, Sampson R, Woodward MD, ed. First International Conference on Technological Advances in Podded Propulsion. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Marine Science & Technology, 2004.
• Woodward MD, Clarke D, Atlar M. On the manoeuvring prediction of pod driven ships. In: International Conference on Marine Simulation and Ship Maneuverability (MARSIM'03). 2003, Kanazawa, Japan: The Society of Naval Architects of Japan.
• Park JJ, Downie MJ, Clarke D. The Estimation of the Hydrodynamic Forces acting on a Manoeuvring Ship Using the Discrete Vortex Method. Ship Technology Research 2003, 50(2), 66-76.
• Woodward MD, Clarke D, Atlar M. An investigation into the course stability and control of a fast, pod driven Ropax. In: 3rd International EuroConference on High-Performance Marine Vehicles - HIPER'02. 2002, Bergen, Norway.
• Woodward MD, Clarke D, Atlar M. Some aspects of the equations used for manoeuvring analysis. In: 1st Postgraduate Research Conference. 2002, Newcastle University, UK: School of Marine Science and Technology.
• Clarke D, Yap MLR. A multi-criteria view of the IMO ship manoeuvring requirements. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 143, Part A, pp. 98-110. ISSN 0373-529X 2001.
• Clarke D. Calculation of the added mass of elliptical cylinders in shallow water. Ocean Engineering 2001, 28(10), 1361-1381.
• Clarke D. Calculation of the added mass of elliptical cylinders in shallow water. Ocean Engineering 2001, 28(10), 1361-1381.
• Clarke D. Ship auto-pilot tuning using the Vishnegradskii-Aizerman Diagram. In: Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, (CAMS2001). 2001, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Clarke D, Kurniawati HA. Can ship manoeuvring be chaotic?. In: Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft 2000. 2000, Aalborg, Denmark: Pergamon.
• Clarke D, Kurniawati HA. Can ship manoeuvring become chaotic?. In: 5th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Crafts (MCMC2000). 2000, Aalborg, Denmark.
• Clarke D, Downie MJ, Park JJ. Modelling Trailing Vortices for Manoeuvring Calculations. Trans RINA 2000, 142, 259-267.
• Clarke D. The effect of shallow water on manoeuvring derivatives using conformational mapping. Control Engineering Practice, IFAC, (Elsevier Press), Vol. 6, Issue 5, pp. 629-634. ISSN 0967-0661 1998.
• Clarke D, Horn JR. Estimation of hydrodynamic derivatives. Proceedings of the 11th Ship Control Systems Symposium, Southampton, Volume 2, pp. 275-289, 14th-19th April 1997. ISBN 1-85312-523-7. 1997.
• Hearn, G. E., Clarke, D., Chan, H. S., Incecik, A. and Varyani, K. S. The influence of vorticity upon estimation of manoeuvring derivatives. In: Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Santa Barbara, California, USA, pp. 669-681, August 1994. (National Academy Press, Washington D. C., 1996.. 1994.
• CLARKE, D., COX, C. and FOX, P. The manual steering criterion based upon phase margin. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Practical Design of Ships and Mobile Units (PRADS 92), Newcastle upon Tyne, Volume 1, pp. 266-283, May 1992. ISBN 1-85166-861-6. 1992.