About
Stephen is Head of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering, a 50-strong academic department, a previous head of the Maritime Engineering Group (FSI), set up the Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory (awarded Queen鈥檚 Anniversary prize for higher and further education, 2012) and founded the Maritime Robotics Laboratory in 2008.
Stephen is Academic Lead at Boldrewood Towing Tank (2012-present).
At present he is leading the fit-out on behalf of the Faculty for the 拢25M Fluids Research Complex including a 138 x 6 x 3.5 m tow/wave tank with a maximum carriage speed of 12m/s and 0.9m wave height from 12 HR Wallingford wavemakers.
He is co-author of two books:
- , Butterworth- Heinemann (2007, 2nd Ed due late 2021) and
- , CUP (2011, 2nd Ed 2017)
You can update this in . Select 鈥楨dit profile鈥. Under the heading and then 鈥楥urriculum and research description鈥, select 鈥楢dd profile information鈥. In the dropdown menu, select - 鈥楢bout鈥.
Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
You鈥檒l be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.
Research
Research interests
- decarbonisation of shipping
- maritime robotics and ship autonomous systems
- performance sport and sailing
- hydrodynamics including hull-propeller-rudder interaction, manoeuvring in waves, propeller noise and energy harvesting
Current research
His fluid dynamics expertise lies in the synthesis of analytical, experimental and computational methods for a diverse range of applications. Examples of such work are in the development of a patented integrated tidal energy generator (winner of The Engineers鈥 Energy Sector Innovation award 2008), supervision of the students who designed Amy Williams鈥 Gold medal winning bob skeleton sled (winner of The Engineer鈥檚 Sport Technology Innovation award in 2010) and with continued support for Gold medal success in 2014 and 2018, academic supervisor for the Delphin Autonomous underwater vehicle (winner of the SAUC-E competition in 2007).
He has acted as a consultant to diverse organisations including NOC, Speedo, Shell Shipping, BAEsystems, Rolls Royce, dstl, QinetiQ, and WS Atkins.
Expertise:
- Future Fuels for Shipping
- Maritime Robotics and Autonomy
- Rudder, hydrofoil, and control surface design
- Unsteady race simulation for kayak, rowing and sailing
- Hull-propeller-rudder interaction
- Ship added resistance and manoeuvring in waves
- Underwater noise prediction using CFD
- Experimental techniques for use of wave/tow tank testing
- Tidal turbines, wave energy and offshore wind turbine design
- Wind turbine array power prediction
- Hydrogen fuel cells for hybrid ship propulsion
- Hydrodynamics of swimming assessment by pool based test techniques and using CFD.
PhD Supervision:
I lead a team of researchers and PhD students with funding of from a wide range of sources including EPSRC, dstl, EU, UK Sport, and industry.
Details of the
My 50+ PhD graduates work throughout the maritime sector and beyond, including CFD simulation code developers, performance sport, sailing including AC teams, energy efficiency start-ups, offshore, renewable energy, research organisations, academia worldwide,
Please contact me directly if you have an interest in what PhD opportunities are currently available
Research Projects
Prosperity Partnership with BAESystems
Predicting power output of wind farms using SAR images
鈥 design of a new deep sea underwtaer glider for ocean exploration 鈥 hull designed using cfd and wind tunnel testing
Fluid-structure interactions for yacht sails
Optimized athlete body sensor networks for simulation-based performance analysis
We have developed a system of wearable sensors that gather information about the movement of athletes so that we can then simulate what their muscles are doing, their aerodynamic drag, etc. This will allow us to optimize the athlete's technique in much the same way as an aircraft's shape is optimized.
Cavitation erosion-corrosion of ship propeller materials
Cavitation erosion-corrosion phenomenon is inevitable in marine propulsion system and has adverse effects on the life and functioning of the propellers. The intensity of the cavitation wear and the exact location of its occurrence have been found to be difficult to predict.The main aim of this PhD project is to identify cavitation wear-corrosion mechanism of marine materials used in propellers and rudders in order to characterize the materials based on their behaviour to cavitation erosion simulated by a vibratory probe device. Several tests will be conducted, with and without cavitation protection, using both direct and indirect methods of cavitation erosion tests along with incorporation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of the experiment.This research is sponsored by the university research groups National Centre of Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS) and Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), along with Lloyd鈥檚 Register.
Development of a Hover Capable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Delphin2 is a hover capable torpedo style AUV, developed at the 黑料社 to provide a test bed for research in marine robotics
Assessment of the effectiveness of fuel cell as an alternative technology for marine propulsion systems
You can update the information for this section in .
Research groups
Any research groups you belong to will automatically appear on your profile. Speak to your line manager if these are incorrect. Please do not raise a ticket in Ask HR.
Research interests
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.
In , select 鈥楨dit profile鈥. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.
Current research
Update this in . Select 鈥楨dit profile鈥 and then 鈥楥urriculum and research description - Current research鈥.
Describe your current research in 100 to 200 words. Write in the third person. Include broad key terms to help people discover your work, for example, 鈥渟ustainability鈥 or 鈥渇ashion textiles鈥.
Research projects
Research Council funded projects will automatically appear here. The active project name is taken from the finance system.
Publications
Public outputs that list you as an author will appear here, once they鈥檙e validated by the ePrints Team. If you鈥檙e missing any outputs that you鈥檝e added to Pure, they may be waiting for validation.
Supervision
Current PhD Students
Contact your Faculty Operating Service team to update PhD students you supervise and any you鈥檝e previously supervised. Making this information available will help potential PhD applicants to find you.
Teaching
Lead modules:
SESS6063 Advances in Ship Resistance and Propulsion
SESS6067 Renewable Energy from Environmental Flows: wind, wave and tide
Contribute to:
SESG6041 Introduction to Energy Technologies, Environment and Sustainability
FEEG1003 ThermoFluids
You can update your teaching description in . Select 鈥楨dit profile鈥. Under the heading and then 鈥楥urriculum and research description鈥 , select 鈥楢dd profile information鈥. In the dropdown menu, select 鈥 鈥楾eaching Interests鈥. Describe your teaching interests and your current responsibilities. Aim for 200 words maximum.
Courses and modules
Contact the Curriculum and Quality Assurance (CQA) team for your faculty to update this section.
External roles and responsibilities
You can update your external roles and responsibilities in . Select 鈥+ Add content鈥 and then 鈥楢ctivity鈥, your 鈥楶ersonal鈥 tab and then 鈥楢ctivities鈥. Choose which activities you want to show on your public profile.
You can hide activities from your public profile. Set the visibility as 'Backend' to only show this information within Pure, or 'Confidential' to make it visible only to you.
Biography
Head of Department, Civil, Maritime and Environmental engineering (2018-2021)
He is on the editorial board of two journals, deputy editor of Journal of Marine Science and Technology and regularly reviews papers for many Journals as well as a member of research panels in Norway, Netherlands and Germany
He served on the technical committees of International Towing Tank Conference (NGO member of IMO) from 2002-2014 including as Chair of the Resistance Committee of the 27th ITTC (2011-2014). He is the ITTC representative for the 黑料社.
He is a founding member of the Society of Maritime Industries Maritime Autonomous Systems Working Group and organised a Transport Catapult workshop on large ship autonomy (2017)
He is an invited member of the IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement Task 39 Hydrogen in Maritime.
Professor (2010-present)
Lecturer (1994) /Senior Lecturer (2002)/ Reader (2008)
Research Assistant/Fellow, Dept of Ship Science, 1988-1994
Research Assistant, MIT Dept of Aero/Astro, 1986-1988
Student Apprentice, GEC Energy Systems, Whetstone, Leics
Qualifications
PhD, 黑料社, Ship Science,1993
MA, University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, 1990
SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
Prizes
- JEME Annual Best Paper Prize (2010)
- Lead Academic for Queen's Anniversary Award (2012)
- JEME Annual Best Paper Prize (2010)
- Lead Academic for Queen's Anniversary Award (2012)
You can update your biography section in . Select your 鈥楶ersonal鈥 tab then 鈥楨dit profile鈥. Under the heading, and 鈥楥urriculum and research description鈥, select 鈥楢dd profile information鈥. In the dropdown menu, select - 鈥楤iography鈥. Aim for no more than 400 words.
This section will only appear if you enter the information into .
Prizes
You can update this section in . Select 鈥+Add content鈥 and then 鈥楶rize鈥. using the 鈥楶rizes鈥 section.
You can choose to hide prizes from your public profile. Set the visibility as 鈥楤ackend鈥 to only show this information within Pure, or 鈥楥onfidential鈥 to make it visible only to you.