Staff Profile

Dr Serkan Turkmen, a lecturer in Marine Engineering, has been employed by Newcastle University since November 2012 in the School of Engineering, Marine Technology.

He has been working in various research projects and is an expert user of Newcastle University’s research facilities including the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel, towing tank, flowcell, and performance monitoring systems of the research vessel the Princess Royal RV.  He completed EU and UK funded projects, e.g. the FP7 EU project SONIC, the Seafront project and the Innovate UK funded project Hydrofoil catamaran-Flying Princess Royal.

He was involved in a novel way of propelling and steering ships, an innovative rudder technology “The Gate Rudder system” https://youtu.be/55LIHKVgBhM.

He also initiated interdisciplinary collaborations with Marine Biology at Newcastle University regarding a project involving fouling control as well as Chemical Engineering involving testing of cavitation erosion.

He is a user of High-Performance Computing with the MPI parallel programming tools to simulate the hydrodynamic performance of ships, propeller, tidal turbines, and pipe flow.

His teaching responsibilities included marine engineering and material science for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Naval architecture,

Marine engineering,

Marine Coatings, Biofouling,  

Roughness, Underwater Radiated Noise, Computational Fluid Dynamics,

Hull vibration,

Smart materials,

Piezoelectricity

MAR8067 Marine Machinery system

MAR2018 Marine Engineering 2

MAR3071 Fundamentals of Marine Engineering

MAR1009 Marine Mechanics

MAR8499 Group Project and Report Master of Engineering in Marine Technology

SFY0013 Material Sciences

• Turkmen S, Aktas B, Atlar M, Sasaki N, Sampson R, Shi W. On-board Measurement Technıques to Quantify Underwater Radiated Noise Level. Ocean Engineering 2017, 130, 166-175.
• Turkmen S, Yeginbayeva I, Atlar M. Design of pressure drop section to measure frictional drag of fouling control surfaces. In: International Congress on Marine Corrosion and Fouling. 2016, Toulon, France.
• Shi W, Atlar M, Norman R, Aktas B, Turkmen S. Numerical optimization and experimental validation for a tidal turbine blade with leading-edge tubercles. Renewable Energy 2016, 96(Part A), 42-55.
• Aktas B, Atlar M, Turkmen S, Shi WC, Sampson R, Korkut E, Fitzsimmons P. Propeller cavitation noise investigations of a research vessel using medium size cavitation tunnel tests and full-scale trials. Ocean Engineering 2016, 120, 122-135.
• Aktas B, Atlar M, Turkmen S, Korkut E, Fitzsimmons P. Systematic cavitation tunnel tests of a Propeller in uniform and inclined flow conditions as part of a round robin test campaign. Ocean Engineering 2016, 120, 136-151.
• Turkmen S, Sasaki N, Atlar M, Miles A, Takeda T. The Gate Rudder application to improve poor course keeping ability of ships. In: A. Yücel Odabaşı Colloquium Series 2nd International Meeting on Recent Advances in Prediction Techniques for Safe Manoeuvring of Ships and Submarines. 2016, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Shi W, Atlar M, Norman R, Aktas B, Turkmen S. Biomimetic improvement for a tidal turbine blade. In: 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2015). 2015, Nantes, France.
• Aktas B, Turkmen S, Sampson R, Shi W, Politis G, Fitzsimmons P, Korkut E, Atlar M. Underwater radiated noise investigations of cavitating propellers using medium size cavitation tunnel tests and full-scale trials . In: 4th International Symposium on Marine Propulsion & 2nd Workshop on Cavitating Propeller Performance. 2015. In Preparation.
• Atlar M, Aktas B, Sampson R, Seo KC, Turkmen S, Fitzsimmons P. A marine science and technology catamaran-platform for full-scale observations and measurements. In: 3rd International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (AMT’13). 2013, Gdansk. In Preparation.
• Carchen A, Atlar M, Turkmen S, Pazouki K, Murphy AJ. Ship performance monitoring dedicated to biofouling analysis: Development on a small size research catamaran. Applied Ocean Research 2019, 89, 224-236.
• Li C, Atlar M, Haroutunian M, Anderson C, Turkmen S. An experimental investigation into the effect of Cu₂O particle size on antifouling roughness and hydrodynamic characteristics by using a turbulent flow channel. Ocean Engineering 2018, 159, 481-495.
• Turkmen S, Atlar M, Yeginbayeva I, Benson SD. Development an Experimental Method to Investigate Hydrodynamic Drag. GMO Journal of Ship and Marine Technology 2018, 24(213), 54-65.
• Lim S, Turkman S, Rostami AB, Prini F, Kurniawati V, Carchen A, Gibson M, Benson SD, Pazouki K, Murphy AJ, Dow RS, Birmingham R. Ship performance- using the real world as a laboratory . In: Full Scale Ship Performance Conference. 2018, London, UK: Royal Institute of Naval Architecture (RINA).
• Li C, Atlar M, Haroutunian M, Anderson C, Turkmen S. An experimental investigation into the effect of Cu2O particle size on antifouling roughness and hydrodynamic characteristics by using a turbulent flow channel. In: 5th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for The Maritime Industry (AMT’17). 2017, Glasgow, UK: University of Strathclyde.
• Carchen A, Turkmen S, Pazouki K, Murphy AJ, Aktas B, Atlar M. Uncertainty Analysis of full-scale ship performance monitoring onboard The Princess Royal. In: The 5th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for The Maritime Industry. 2017.