Tim Gourlay

Education

B.Sc. (Melbourne) 1993, B.App.Maths Hons. (Adelaide) 1994, Ph.D. (Adelaide) 2000.

Biography

Dr Tim Gourlay is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Marine Science and Technology. His main areas of interest are ship hydrodynamics and wave mechanics.

Tim obtained his Honours in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1994. He then spent two years sailing around the world, before completing his PhD on shallow-water ship hydrodynamics in 2000. He then spent two years as ship hydrodynamics lecturer at the Australian Maritime College.

Tim moved to CMST in 2002 and has since been working on a variety of ship hydrodynamics projects, including mathematical analysis, software development and full-scale trials.

Areas of expertise

Under-keel clearance; resistance; seakeeping; wave dynamics

Recent projects

Full-scale boat wake measurements.
Developing dynamic underkeel clearance software for ships in shallow water.
Port approach channel design based on required under-keel clearance (UKC) in swell conditions.
Ship UKC full-scale trials and data analysis.
Ship manoeuvring calculations for designing channel width and bend radius.
Seakeeping trials on new-build ships.
Improving seakeeping of existing vessels.
Hull resistance calculations.
Analysis of model testing data.
Cavitation assessment of high-speed vessel appendages.
Development of dynamic ship stability assessment method.

Recent research

Hydrofoil analysis using OpenFOAM CFD software.
Analysis of ship slamming using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics.
Flow around ships in shallow water.
Wave patterns and wave resistance of high-speed vessels.
Viscous effects on ships operating at small underkeel clearances.
High-speed catamaran sinkage and trim.
Wave energy production in Australia.