Professor Ronald W. Yeung, Ph.D.

American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering

University of California at Berkeley

Contact E-mail: rwyeung@berkeley.edu

Ocean Renewable Energy -- Prospects and Development

 Colloquium/Seminar #1

Dalian University of Technology

October 24, 2016, Monday, 14:00 -15:00

Meeting room A301, Institute of Ocean Engineering,

 State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering

2016年10月24日（星期一），14:00-15:00

海洋工程研究所A301会议室

ABSTRACT

The ocean environment is considered a crucial resource for green and sustainable energy. The lecture will give an overview of large-scale floating offshore wind turbines, current and tidal machines, and a collection of wave-energy extraction devices. The scale of engineering analysis can vary from macro- (150m) to mini-scale (5cm). Technical development and efforts related to speaker’s Marine Mechanics Research Laboratory at UC Berkeley are elaborated.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKER: Prof. Ronald W. Yeung, Ph.D. (1973, UC Berkeley) is a distinguished professor of hydromechanics and ocean engineering at UC Berkeley. He holds the Inaugural ABS Chair in Ocean Engineering established in 2012.  He was a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Scholar in Adelaide, Australia (1981) and then a von-Humboldt Distinguished US Scientist in Germany (1988, 1998).  He made contributions in a broad range of areas in marine mechanics. He received the 2002-03 Georg Weinblum Lecturership Award sponsored by the German Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft and the U.S. Naval Studies Board. In 2004, he was recognized as the SNAME Kenneth Davidson Gold Medalist for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments in Ship Research. The Brazilian Society of Marine Engineers (SOBENA) awarded him the “2008 Biennial International Researcher Award". He was conferred an honorary professorship by Harbin Engineering University of China in 2010. He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications and mentored more than one hundred advanced-degree graduates, including 22 Ph.D.’s and 8 Post-docs to completion. In OMAE-2012, a special four-day Symposium on Offshore and Ship Hydrodynamics was held in his honor in Rio de Janeiro, in appreciation of his research and mentorship contributions in the marine field. In 2016, he received the OOAE/ASME Lifetime Achievement Award “In grateful recognition of significant lifetime contribution to hydromechanics and ocean engineering by a distinguished scholar.”