Faculty and Staff - Krish P. Thiagarajan, Ph.D

Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Presidential Chair in Energy
& Professor

5711 Boardman Hall #229
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5711
Phone: (207) 581-2167
Fax: (207) 581-2379
Email: krish.thiagarajan@maine.edu

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Education:

• PhD, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1993
• MSE, Mechanical Engineering
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1992
• MSE, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1992
• MEng., Ocean Engineering
  Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 1989
• BTech., Naval Architecture
  Indian Institue of Technology, India, 1986

Research Interests:

• Marine renewable energy

• wave energy conversion
• offshore wind energy systems
• other energy conversion mechanism – tidal energy, OTEC
• Hydrodynamics and dynamics of deep water offshore structures
• Hydrodynamics of subsea and marine operations
• Dynamic response of marine platforms and vessels to environment
• Hydrodynamic model testing.
• Computational fluid dynamics.

Teaching Interests:

• MEE 564  Fluid Structure Interaction 
• MEE 565 Offshore Floating Systems Design

Research students:

• Michael Macnicoll, MS Civil Engineering (wave energy conversion)
• Wei-ting Hsu, PhD Mechanical Engineering (offshore wind energy)

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