Dr. Seong-Gi Seo

Ship Hydro dynamics

- Wave Simulation

- Resistance Calculation

- Ship Manoeuvring

- Ship Interaction

High Performance (Parallel) Computing

- Parallel Systems

- Systolic Algorithm

 

 

 

 

 

Seong-Gi served three years from 1973 in the Korean army as a foot soldier in GOP area. He was the martial art (Tae Kwon Do) instructor for the regiment.

His first job in his career was with the Korean Ship Research Institute in 1980, which he left when he decided to do postgraduate study in Newcastle University in England.

Following the award of MSc in 1981, he started working for the Emersion Cavitation Tunnel as a research associate until 1986, during which time he obtained a PhD degree.

Following this, Seong-Gi decided to switch his subject into high performance (parallel) computing. He remained in this field until the end of 1999.From the year 2000, he started full time teaching at the Marine College in South Shields and in 2007, he came to lecture at WMA where he is closer to his three children who are living in London.

He was the very first in early 1980s who satisfied the fully Non-Linear Free Surface Boundary Condition in Rankine Source distribution method of flow calculation around surface ships. His method of distributing sources on the disturbed water surface itself is still the most advanced way of simulating the ship waves. He obtained his PhD for this work.

Recently, he has been engaged in Ship Manoeuvring research to help WMA’s Manned Model Ship Handling Centre at Timsbury.

He is now restarting his research into ship hydrodynamics.

- “The Use of Pivot Point in Ship Handling for Safer and More Accurate Ship Manoeuvring|”, Proceedings of

    IMLA 19, September 2011

-  “Rethinking the Pivot Point|”, Seaways (The International Journal of The Nautical Institute), August 2011,  
     7-10

-  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1573, Springer, Berlin (July 1999)
   “A Systolic Algorithm for the Factorisation of Matrices arising in the Field of Hydrodynamics”  |
  * This article also appears in " Vector and Parallel Processing - VECPAR'98" (June 1998)

-  Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (October 1998)
  “Traffic Control in Response to Traffic Incidents”|

- Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (1996)
  “The Effect of Pontoon Geometry on the Response of a TLP in Waves” |

- Report to the EU Human Capital and Mobility Programme (1995)
 “Measurement of the Responses of Tethered Floating Bodies in Waves” |

- Water Resource Systems Research Unit Report 17, Newcastle University (January 1994)
  “Implementation of the SHETRAN-UK Hydrological Model on the Network Linda Parallel Processing System”

- Computing Science Report PPM, Newcastle University (November 1993)
  “On the Use of Systolic Concept as a General Design Methodology”

- Emerson Cavitation Tunnel Reports, Newcastle University, (1982-1987)

 

Ph.D. (Engineering), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1984)
"Potential Flow Calculation around and in the Wake of a Surface Ship"|

M.Sc. (Information Systems Technology), Herriot-Watt University (1999)
"Comparison of Parallel Solutions to N-Body Problems"|

M.Sc. (Marine Technology), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1981)
 "The Prediction of Wake Distribution with particular reference to Afterbody Form Analysis."|

B.Eng. (Mechanical Engineering), U.I.T. (1980)

Member of the PIANC: The world Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure

Member of RINA (The Royal Institution of Naval Architects)