Dr Wei Bai

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Biography

Dr Wei Bai is currently a Reader at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Prior to joining MMU in December 2016, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. From 1992, Dr Bai studied at Dalian University of Technology, China, and received his PhD there in Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering in 2001. Following this, he worked as a researcher at various universities, including Strathclyde, Oxford and Manchester Met before moving to Singapore in 2009. 

For more than two decades now Dr. Bai has devoted his efforts to the research of computational marine hydrodynamics, with emphasis in numerical simulation of water wave interaction with marine structures. He has accumulated a wealth of experience in numerical simulations and has developed independently a number of programs for calculating both potential flow and viscous flow with or without free water surfaces in two and three dimensions. These works enable us to get a good insight into physical phenomena related to wave-structure interactions, and provide meaningful hydrodynamic information for offshore and coastal engineering.

Who am I?

A marine hydrodynamicist.

Academic and professional qualifications

  • Ph.D. (2001) in Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
  • B.Eng. (1996) in Port and Sea-Route Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
  • Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (2019), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Previous employment

  • Reader (August 2021 to present), Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • Senior Lecturer (Dec 2016 to July 2021), Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • Assistant Professor (March 2009 to Nov 2016), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Postdoctoral research associate (January 2007 to February 2009), Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • Postdoctoral research assistant (April 2004 to December 2006), Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
  • Academic visitor (May 2003 to March 2004), Joint Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, UK
  • Postdoctoral research fellow (July 2001 to April 2003), Division of Engineering Sciences, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Other academic service (administration and management)

  • Research Degrees Coordinator
  • PGR Lead for CfACS

Editorial board membership

  • Member, Editorial Board, Applied Ocean research
  • Member, Editorial Board, Ocean Engineering
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Marine Science and Application
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Shipping and Ocean Engineering

Membership of professional associations

Member of International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), 2009 to 2018.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

  • Matlab Programming Skills;
  • Numerical Methods and Modelling;
  • Foundation Mathematics;
  • Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

  • Mohammed Abdul Hannan (main supervisor), ”Numerical simulation of submerged payload coupled with crane barge in waves”, National University of Singapore, 2014.
  • Harrif Santo (co-supervisor), “The effects of current blockage on offshore structures”, National University of Singapore, 2014.
  • Min Luo (co-supervisor), “A two-phase consistent particle method for wave impact problems with entrapped air pockets”, National University of Singapore, 2015.
  • Xiangbo Liu (main supervisor), “Numerical study of liquid sloshing in LNG tanks coupled with ship motions”, National University of Singapore, 2016.
  • Xingya Feng (co-supervisor), “Hydrodynamic analysis of wave interactions with marine multibody systems”, National University of Singapore, 2016.
  • Xianglong Chen (external supervisor), “Development of three-dimensional numerical wave basin for simulation of extreme events in ocean”, National University of Singapore, 2017.
  • Bin Yan (external supervisor), “Numerical simulation of green water on the deck of offshore strcutures using a combined level set immersed boundary method”, National University of Singapore, 2018.

External examiner roles

External Examiner for a PhD thesis from the University of Western Australia, Australia, 2016 and 2018

Research outputs