Professor Stephen R Turnock MA, SM, PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FRINA, FHEA
Professor of Maritime Fluid Dynamics, Head of the Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering
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Stephen is Head of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering, a 50 strong academic department, a previous head of the Maritime Engineering Group, set up the Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory (awarded Queen’s Anniversary prize for higher and further education, 2012) and founded the Maritime Robotics Laboratory in 2008.
The complex interaction of the maritime environment with ships, underwater vehicles, yachts, floating platforms or swimmers is endlessly fascinating. The challenge is always to apply our understanding of the fundamentals to the design of the next generation of vehicles.
He has strong interests in decarbonisation of shipping, maritime robotics and ship autonomous systems, performance sport and sailing, maritime energy including tidal and floating wind as well as his long-standing expertise in hydrodynamics including hull-propeller-rudder interaction, manoeuvring in waves, propeller noise and energy harvesting. At present he is leading the fit-out on behalf of the Faculty for the £25M Fluids Research Complex including a 138 x 6 x 3.5 m tow/wave tank with a maximum carriage speed of 12m/s and 0.9m wave height from 12 HR Wallingford wavemakers.
Follow our work on the Maritime Engineering and Ship Science blog.
He is co-author of two books: Marine Rudders and Control Surfaces, Butterworth- Heinemann (2007, 2nd Ed due late 2021) and Ship Resistance and Propulsion, CUP (2011, 2nd Ed 2017)
PhD, University of Southampton, Ship Science,1993
SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
MA, University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, 1990
Student Apprentice, GEC Energy Systems, Whetstone, Leics
Research Assistant, MIT Dept of Aero/Astro, 1986-1988
Research Assistant/Fellow, Dept of Ship Science, 1988-1994
Lecturer(1994) /Senior Lecturer (2002)/ Reader(2008)
Professor (2010-)
