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Biography
Dr Milne is a Senior Research Fellow within the ITRH for Offshore Floating Facilities. His main research is on wave-structure interaction, focussing on developing new methodologies and tools for roll damping of ships and side-by-side offloading of FLNGs via numerical, experimental and field data acquisition. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Auckland which focussed on metocean and unsteady hydrodynamics for tidal turbines. Prior to joining UWA he worked within industry as a mechanical engineer and an ocean engineer, encompassing R&D and early concept studies for offshore oil and gas facilities.
Roles and responsibilities
- International Marine Energy Journal Associate Editor
- International Journal of Marine Energy Editorial Board
- 20th AFMC Organising Committee and Session Chair
- 2018 Australian Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium Organising Committe
- Supervisor for Masters these projects in ship hydrodynamics and mooring systems
- Supervisor for PhD theses in unsteady hydrodynamics of pipelines, statistical prediction of metocean and ship motions, novel low-cost sensing.
Funding overview
- Maximising the impact of UWA's offshore floating structure research - enhancing WA's position as a global offshore engineering hub
Milne, I. & Zhao, W.
UWA Research Impact Grants - Fluid resonance in the gap between two side‐by‐side offshore floating structures with square bilges
Zhao, W., Draper, S., Milne, I., White, D. & Wolgamot, H.
Current projects
- ITRH for Offshore Floating Facilities
- Woodside FutureLab RiverLab - Hydrodynamics and mooring systems for FPSOs.
- CEED with Austal - Hydrodynamics and machine learning for marine craft
Research
- Hydrodynamics of FLNG carriers and FPSOs, focussing on roll damping and wave-structure interaction.
- Field data acquisition of motions of floating facilities (FPSOs, Drillships)
- Numerical modelling and machine learning of FPSO mooring line system dynamics and failure prediction.
- Computation of directional wave spectra from ship motions.
- Metocean analyses using experimental and numerical methods
- Turbulence in tidal farms and distortion effects
- Unsteady aero/hydrodynamics of wind and tidal turbines and airfoils
Community engagement
RINA Western Australian Division Committee
Education/Academic qualification
Mechanical Engineering, PhD, The University of Auckland
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Research Output 2010 2019
A Bayesian approach to the quantification of extremal responses in simulated dynamic structures
Astfalck, L. C., Cripps, E. J., Hodkiewicz, M. R. & Milne, I. A., 15 Jun 2019, In : Ocean Engineering. 182, p. 594-607 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Simulators
Risk management
Floating production storage and offloading
Uncertainty
Emulation of vessel motion simulators for computationally efficient uncertainty quantification
Astfalck, L. C., Cripps, E. J., Gosling, J. P. & Milne, I. A., 15 Jan 2019, In : Ocean Engineering. 172, p. 726-736 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Simulators
Uncertainty
Decision making
Industry
Response based design metocean conditions for a permanently moored FPSO during tropical cyclones: Estimation of greenwater risk
Chen, L., Taylor, P. H., Draper, S., Wolgamot, H., Milne, I. A. & Whelan, J. R., 1 Aug 2019, In : Applied Ocean Research. 89, p. 115-127 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Floating production storage and offloading
Extrapolation
Turbulence velocity spectra and intensities in the inflow of a turbine rotor
Milne, I. A. & Graham, J. M. R., 10 Jul 2019, In : Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 870, p. 870R31-870R311Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
turbines
rotors
Turbulence
Turbines
Rotors
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Citations
(Scopus)
Current practice and research directions in hydrodynamics for FLNG-side-by-side offloading
Zhao, W., Milne, I. A., Efthymiou, M., Wolgamot, H. A., Draper, S., Taylor, P. & Eatock Taylor, W. R., 2018, In : Ocean Engineering. 158, p. 99–110Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Liquid sloshing
Hydrodynamics
Liquefied natural gas
Ships
Damping
Projects 2016 2020
Offshore Floating Facilities Hub and RiverLab Data Interface
Draper, S., White, D., Cheng, L. & Milne, I.
22/12/16 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Fluid resonance in the gap between two side‐by‐side offshore floating structures with square bilges
Zhao, W., Wolgamot, H., White, D., Draper, S., Milne, I., Eatock Taylor, R., Adcock, T., Yang, J. & Taylor, P.
University of Western Australia
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research