Seakeeping of Ships and Offshore Structures

Dr. Ranadev Datta is now an Associate Professor in the department of Ocean Engineering of Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of technology Kharagpur, India. He did his PhD in the same department in Numerical Ship and Offshore Hydrodynamics. He worked in IST Lisbon, during 2009 to 2012. The primary research interest of Dr. Ranadev Datta is related to ship and offshore structure seakeeping, Hydroelasticity. He had developed a higher order 3D time domain panel method to solve ship motion problems during his graduation. Presently, his research area includes hydroelasticity, nonlinear fluid structure interaction problem, computational geometry etc. He is now involved in a project supported by the Naval Research Board where they are trying to solve hydroelasticity problem by coupling the boundary element method (BEM) and finite element method (FEM) in time domain. Also working on the nonlinear wave- structure interaction problem, the focus is to find an efficient way to couple the classical potential flow method with popular CFD solvers, so that the local phenomenon such as deck wetness/ slamming can be modelled using CFD. Dr.  Datta has worked on several industry-related projects. He has helped IRS (International register for shipping) to develop their classification rule book. He also developed stability software for jack up Rigs with Green Palm Marine Consultancy. Apart from that, he has been involved in many small scale routine consultancy projects as well. Apart from his work related to numerical ship and offshore structure hydrodynamics, he is also keen in developing an automated meshing engine for ship like structures using the key concept of computational geometry.