Heather Peng

Dr. Peng is an associate professor in the area of marine/ship hydrodynamics and its application to ship and offshore structure design and evaluation. She has many years of industrial experience at Martec and Oceanic Consulting Corporation in ocean engineering applications. Her research interests include numerical prediction of ship motions and wave loads, hydrodynamic interactions of multiple floating bodies in waves, coupled dynamic analysis of moored offshore structures, dynamic positioning of ships and offshore structures in waves and in ice, hull form optimization and hull propeller interaction, propeller tip vortex, fishing vessels, multi-hull ship, renewable wave energy converter, ship maneuvering, shallow water waves, and safety of ships and offshore structures.