Conference Session

OMCED Topics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University; Ronald Yeung, University of California, Berkeley; Spyros Kinnas, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

, Berkeley, mathematical and computationalmodels are developed to describe and predict flows and hydrodynamic loads in many ocean-engineering applications: e.g., ships, offshore structures, renewable energy extraction. TheCMML is a fully networked facility with a bank of high-speed workstations and PCs. Thelaboratory at Richmond Field Station consists of a water basin 68m long, 2.6m wide and 2mdeep. Physical models are tested in the basin in simulated wave environment of the properscales. The facility has both low-speed and high-speed tow carriages, a computer-controlledwavemaker, and a hydraulic oscillator. Instrumentation capabilities include some of the latesttechniques, such as systems for laser fluorescence imagery and digital-particle image

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Brown, Virginia Tech; Owen Hughes, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Neu, Virginia Tech; Betsy Tretola, Teaching and Learning,

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

education includes: PhD, Marine Engineering, 1986; MS, Ocean Engineering, 1973; MS, Shipping and Shipbuilding Management, 1973; BS, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1971; all from MIT.Owen Hughes, Virginia Tech Dr. Owen Hughes received his B.S. and M.S. in Naval Architecture from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Naval Architecture from UNSW in Sydney, Australia. He is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is best known for his development of a computer-based "first principles" method for the structural design of ships and other thin-wall structures, which combines finite element analysis, structural failure analysis and optimization. He has held