Dominic Hudson, BEng, PhD

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• Dominic Hudson, BEng, PhD
• Senior Research Fellow
• School of Engineering Sciences, Ship Science,
  University of Southampton, Southampton.
• United Kingdom.

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School of Engineering Sciences
Head of School Professor W.G. Price FRS FREng
FIMechE FRINA

• Aerodynamics Flight Mechanics (12), Prof. N
  Sandham
• Astronautics (5), Dr S Gabriel
• Bioengineering Science (5.7), Mr D Barrett/Dr
  M.Taylor
• Computational Engineering Design (5.76), Prof A
  J Keane
• Electro-Mechanical (6), Prof. J W McBride
• Fluid-Structure Interactions (16.5), Prof R.A.
  Shenoi
• Engineering Materials (12), Prof A. Willoughby
• Thermal Fluids Superconductivity (7), Prof C
  Beduz.

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HEFCE RAE2001 in Engineering

• Electronics Electrical Grade 5 67 Staff
• Computer Science Grade 5 19 Staff
• Engineering Sciences ISVR Grade 5 100 Staff
• Civil Grade 5 19 Staff
• 5/5 Soton 205, IC 161, Cam 124, UCL 89, Oxf 77,
  Bath 40, Leeds 53, etc

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Fluid-structure Interactions Group

• 8 Academic staff, 8 researchers, 42 PG students
• Expertise
• Lightweight Materials
• Maritime Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Hydroelasticity
• Ship/Helicopter Interactions
• High Speed Marine Vehicles
• Yacht Performance
• Funding
• 2.2M current research contracts
• RNLI Advanced Technology Partnership
• Lloyds Register University Technology Centre

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Unsteady Hydrodynamics

• Three-dimensional frequency domain
• Pulsating source
• Translating pulsating source
• Time domain, non-linear Froude-Krylov/Restoring
• Convolution integral
• Time domain Greens function
• Rankine source
• Frequency domain
• Time domain

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Applications

• High-speed mono- and multi-hull vessels
• Manoeuvring in calm water and waves
• Sailing yacht performance
• Extensive verification/validation study
• Investigation of irregular frequency with forward
  speed
• Flow around high-speed vessels with transom stern

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Hydroelasticity- applications

• Bulk carriers (2D and 3D)
• Single-role minehunter (2D and 3D) for VT
• RV Triton (trimaran research vessel) for QinetiQ
• VLFS (pontoon and semi-submersible)
• High-speed catamaran ferry
• Sailing yacht
• Development of G-Hydroflex for Lloyds Register

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Hydroelasticity sub-group

• Professor W.G. Price
• Professor P. Temarel
• Professor J.T. Xing
• Dr. D.A. Hudson
• Dr. S.X. Du
• Dr. Y. Xiong
• Dr. M.Y. Tan
• 6 contract research staff (incl. in CED)
• 6 PG students
• Collaboration
• CSSRC, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ, Tsinghua Univ,
  BUAA, Harbin Eng. Univ, RNLI, LR, VT
  Shipbuilding, UK MoD, QinetiQ, WUMTIA