Marine Science and Technology Research Staff in Singapore

Our academic staff located in Singapore actively conduct research for industry and government in many diverse fields of interest. The table below introduces our key staff members and current research interests:

School of Marine Science and Technology
Name Research Interests Include:

Dr Cheng Siong Chin
Lecturer

Cheng Chin

Remote Control Technologies (RECT) for deep water applications that includes cascade/decoupled/robust sliding-mode control (MIMO Control), modelling & mechatronics system design (Martronics) with battery power system, remote monitoring system (Monitoring) and ROVs/AUVs (Marine Robotics).

Acoustics and noise control of small (e.g. hard disk drive) and large-scale systems (e.g. engine room) that cover prediction, analysis and noise control. Psychoacoustics analysis of system performance (describing the physiological and subjective responses of humans exposed to noise and vibration) by quantifying the exposure and assessing the response.

Clean energy systems design, modelling and optimization such as a solar tracker, linear generator and magnetic levitation at different operating conditions on land and maritime applications.

Dr Arun Dev
Senior Lecturer

Arun Dev

Ship and Offshore Hydromechanics and design (resistance, propulsion, sea keeping, manoeuvring and stability) including ship performance. Major expertise in all aspects of Tugs and Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs) design (concept, preliminary and Class) including resistance & powering, ice class & ice breaking, propulsion plant, dynamic positioning and IMO rules & regulations, etc. Model testing of ships and offshore floating structures including model tests in ice.

Propulsion design - Electric and Hybrid Propulsion including Dynamic Positioning, safety and FMEA for ships and semisubmersibles capability simulation. Propulsion plan architecture and thruster disposition. Motion minimization of Floating Offshore Structures.

Uncertainty & risk management, arctic engineering, deep water technology and subsea engineering.

Renewable Energy: floating substructure, floating platform, wind, wave and tidal energy, etc.

Green ship technology, ship Recycling, Offshore Decommissioning, HAZMAT, ship-breaking yards development, etc.

Dr Jonathan Downes
Lecturer

Jonathan Downes

Marine structures and fluid-structure interaction, with a current focus on the characteristics of damaged ships.

Development A of theoretical methods for predicting the nonlinear elasto-plastic collapse and post collapse behaviour of plates and stiffened panels in marine structures. Theoretical methods for predicting the ultimate strength of a ship's hull girder and novel structures. Modelling of accidental loadings such as collisions and grounding, development of methods for predicting the resulting damaged residual strength and the consequent ability to survive in the damaged state. Development of damage tolerant configurations for ships and offshore platforms.

Risk based inspection and maintenance techniques, improved decision making based on statistical and reliability based analysis for the safe, cost effective structural inspection, repair and design-rule improvement of existing ships.

Risk Based design framework and tools for a methodological assessment of risk to provide a rational basis for making decisions pertaining to the design, operation, and regulation of commercial vessels. Techniques are primarily aimed towards the structural design and analysis fields, but have wide applicability to other areas of Naval Architecture such as vessel design and stability analysis.

Dr Ana Mesbahi
Teaching Fellow

Ana Mesbahi

 Hydrodynamics - Evaluation of ships’ and offshore structures motions and loads responses by means of using a range of 2-D and 2.5-D analysis tools and methods.

Ship Design - Optimisation of vessel hull-form based on multi criteria hydrodynamic performance targeting the different stages of the design process.

Drilling Engineering - Design and analysis of drill string and drilling riser to take into account natural movement of the string as well as reducing vortex induced vibrations.

Dr. Sergio Ribeiro e Silva
Senior Lecturer

Sergio Ribeiro e Silva

Hydrodynamics of ships and floating offshore structures in waves, including assessment of ship’s R&P, parametric rolling, roll stabilisation systems and wave energy converters.

R&D activity concerns with potential flow modelling of non-linear ship motions in waves, where a time-domain non-linear strip theory model of ship's motions in six DoF has been developed and extensively validated by comparing numerical predictions with experimental results of parametric rolling of containerships, RoRo and fishing vessels.

Developing a computer code based on Michell’s theory and Salvesen’s method to predict the ship resistance in waves and voyage optimisation studies.

In terms of CFD, both OpenFOAM and STAR-CCM+ Navier-Stokes solvers are being utilised to assess resistance of fully-displacement hullforms and a high-speed sailing boat, seakeeping and roll damping characteristics of ships, as Prime Investigator of an ongoing 200 kEuros R&D project entitled: “Experimental and Numerical Study of Ship Responses in Waves”.

Numerical analysis of the hydrodynamic performance of wave energy devices of the OWC type that culminated in the development of the prototype “UGen”, whose patent registry was accepted.

Dr Ivan Tam
Senior Lecturer

Ivan Tam

 The combination of experimental technique and theoretical study with use of simulation software developed to investigate combustion process and its correlation with fuel efficiency and exhaust emissions in marine and engines and steam power plants.

Complex heat exchangers with two phase flow used to harness energy stored in the cryogenic LNG which is the next generation marine fuel to improve sustainability and achieve the goal of zero-carbon emission shipping.

Alternative solutions to treatment of ballast water on/off board vessel with the aim of reduction of harmful pathogen, energy requirement, capital costs and environment impact across regions.