Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory

Equipments Details

Keywords

• Hydrodynamic Tank testing
• Shipping
• Offshore Renewable technologies

Contact information

Name	David Dai
Emails	[email protected]

Terms of loan/booking

Available for loan - internal and external

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Explore the research areas in which this equipment has been used. These labels are generated based on the related outputs. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

• Ships Engineering 100%
• Hydrodynamics Engineering 99%
• Experimental Investigation Engineering 82%
• Models Engineering 71%
• Ship Resistance Engineering 70%
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Engineering 60%
• Performance Engineering 57%
• Fouling Engineering 48%

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Research output

Research output per year 2014 2019 2020 2021 2023 2024 2025

• 33 Article
• 9 Conference contribution book
• 7 Paper
• 4 Poster
• 3 More
  • 1 Abstract
  • 1 Proceeding
  • 1 Conference Contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

• Experimental investigation of nonlinear forces on a monopile offshore wind turbine foundation under directionally spread waves

  Ding, H., Zhao, G., Tang, T., Taylor, P., Adcock, T. A. A., Dai, S., Ning, D., Chen, L., Li, J., Wang, R. & Zang, J., 31 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. 147, 4, 9 p., 042002.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Offshore Wind Turbines 100%
  • Experimental Investigation 100%
  • Harmonics 100%
  • Wave Loading 33%
  • Accurate Prediction 16%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  7 Downloads (Pure)

• Nonlinear analysis of hydrodynamics of a shallow-draft floating wind turbine

  Terrero-Gonzalez, A., Dai, S., Papadopoulos, J., Neilson, R. D. & Kapitaniak, M., 1 Mar 2025, In: Nonlinear Dynamics. 113, 5, p. 4511-4529 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Nonlinear Analysis 100%
  • Hydrodynamics 100%
  • Sea State 100%
  • Floating Wind Turbine 100%
  • Turbine 75%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)

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Datasets

• Data for: "Numerical Modelling of the Nearfield Longitudinal Wake Profiles of a High-Speed Prismatic Planing Hull"

  Gray-Stephens, A. (Creator), Tezdogan, T. (Contributor) & Day, S. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 14 Jul 2020

  DOI: 10.15129/35ef2762-5cd4-480a-90be-745b38ef1539

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Projects

Projects per year 2007 2012 2014 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2026

• 1 Not started
• 1 Active
• 37 Finished

Projects per year

• A low-cost wind load modelling technique for offshore floating wind tank testing (International Exchanges 2022)

  Dai, D. (Principal Investigator), Jia, L. (Co-investigator) & Yuan, Z. (Co-investigator)

  Royal Society

  31/03/23 → 30/03/26

  Project: Research

• Performance of VIV suppression strakes

  Day, S. (Academic), Srinil, N. (Academic) & Zanganeh, H. (Academic)

  Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)

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Student theses

• Assessing the performance of an oscillating water column type wave energy device

  Dai, S. (Author), 12 Dec 2016

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Activities

Activities per year 2023 2023 2023

• 1 Hosting an external, non-academic visitor

Activities per year

• 50 primary school pupils

  Dai, D. (Host), Black, S. (Host), Ilter, Y. K. (Host) & Tacar Ilter, Z. (Host)

  2 Nov 2023

  Activity: Hosting a Visitor › Hosting an external, non-academic visitor