Marine Technology – (M.Phil.)

MPhil supervision is typically available in the following areas:

Offshore and pipeline engineering: hydrodynamics of fixed and floating offshore platforms; mooring design and analysis; reliability-based strength analysis of fixed and floating offshore platforms; residual strength of damaged ships and offshore structures; pipeline design; pipeline integrity and integrity management; decommissioning; strength, fatigue and fracture analysis; corrosion and defect assessments; dent strain modelling (Professor M Downie, Professor R Dow, Professor L Tao, Dr J Race, Professor E Mesbahi, Dr H Chan, Dr Y Pu).

Technology for the marine environment: environmental impact of marine design and operations; ballast water treatment techniques; biofouling and environmentally friendly coatings; engine emissions; wash effects; artificial reefs; environmental sustainability assessment; sustainable shipping (Professor R Birmingham, Professor M Downie, Professor E Mesbahi, Professor G Burgess, Professor M Atlar, Professor A Clare, Professor M Bentley).

Marine design: optimal marine design; multiple objective decision support; scheduling in marine construction; safety and security; reliability; dependability; marine transport; virtual reality in ship design; composite warship structures (Professor R Dow, Professor E Mesbahi, Dr P Wright, Professor R Birmingham, Dr H Chan).

Marine engineering: marine systems; dynamic modelling; power and propulsion systems; marine actuation and control; motion control of marine vehicles; artificial neural networks; intelligent modelling; simulation and adaptive control; diagnosis and sensor validation; all-electric ship; water jets; turbines (Professor E Mesbahi, Dr A Murphy, Dr R Norman, Mr K Pazouki).

Marine structures: ultimate hull girder strength; non-linear finite element analysis; fire resistance of composite materials; large-scale structural testing; fatigue reliability analysis of ships; structural reliability analysis (Professor R Dow, Professor L Tao, Dr H Chan, Dr Y Pu, Dr P Wright).

Ship hydrodynamics: marine and ship hydrodynamics; marine computational fluid dynamics; high-speed and advanced marine craft seakeeping; propulsors and cavitation; podded propulsion systems; seakeeping and resistance (Professor M Atlar, Professor M Downie, Dr P Wright, Dr M Woodward, Dr H Chan).

Renewable energy: electrical generation systems; marine renewable energy; wave and tidal power devices; tidal power; CO2 transport and sequestration (Professor M Downie, Professor M Atlar, Professor E Mesbahi, Dr R Norman, Dr J Race).

Small craft: design methodologies; design for safety ship stability; tugs; fishing vessels; small commercial craft; sustainability of fisheries; small craft electrical systems; leisure craft (Professor R Birmingham, Professor M Downie).

Shipbuilding and repair: shipbuilding; ship repair; ship outfitting; welding fabrication; benchmarking; design for production (Professor G Bruce).

Marine transport and management: shipping economics and management; marine transport systems; modelling and forecasting (Mr P Stott, Professor J Mangan, Visiting Professors M Stopford and C Lalwani).

We offer different routes to a research degree qualification including full-time supervised research projects, and part-taught part-research programmes. Integrated PhD and part-time programmes are also available.

For more information about staff specialisms please see the School's website.