Recently, the Royal Society of Naval Architects announced the winners of the 2017Medal of Distinction. The paper Ship-ship Hydrodynamic Interaction in Confined Water with Complex Boundaries by a Panelled Moving Patch Method collaborated by Associate Professor Zhou Xueqian and Professor S Sutulo and Professor C Guedes Soares of the University of Lisbon's Ship and Ocean Engineering Technology Center was the winner. The paper was published in the international journal Maritime Engineering in 2016.
Associate Professor Zhou Xueqian and Professor C Guedes Soares have been working on the restricted area hydrodynamic interference problem of watercraft for years. The hydrodynamic interference problem has always been one of the key issues in the field of fluid mechanics, and it is the key technology for the implementation of independent collision avoidance decision for intelligent ships in the future. Zhou Xueqian and his colleagues, proposed the Panelled Moving Patch Method to solve the hydrodynamic problem of ships in complex boundary-limited waters, which is difficult to solve by the traditional method. They have published a few articles in international peer review journals.
