
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory (M8)
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 (C)
21073 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 42878 6053
Fax: +49 40 4273-14468
m.abdel-maksoud(at)tuhh.de
http://www.tuhh.de/fds
Education
1977 - 1982
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture).
1984 - 1986
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Master of Science (M.Sc. Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture).
1987
German Language Course at Goethe Institute Freiburg.
1987 - 1988
Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin.
1989 - 1992
Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin, Doctoral Degree (Dr.-Ing.).
Military Service
1982 - 1983
Coordinator of Rescue and Salvage Party of Egyptian Navy.
Profession
1984 - 1987
Research Assistant, Department Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture, Alexandria University.
1992 - 1994
Research Assistant, Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin.
1994 - 1995
Research Assistant, Potsdam Model Basin (SVA).
1995 - 2002
Head of Numerical Simulation Department, Potsdam Model Basin.
2003 - 2007
Professor at Institute of Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Duisburg-Essen University.
2003 - 2007
Managing Director of Institute of Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Duisburg-Essen University.
Since 2007
Head of Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory, Hamburg University of Technology.
Professional Affiliation
Since 1990
German Society for Maritime Technology STG (Germany)
Since 1991
Association of Engineers VDI (Germany)
Since 1995
American Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
1997 - 1999
Resistance and Flow Committee, International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC)
2005 - 2017
Chairman of the Hydrodynamics Committee of STG
2008 - 2019
Deputy Chairman of the Maritime Research Centre at Hamburg University of Technology
2013 - 2017
Member of the Council of the Managing Board of German Society for Maritime Technology
Since 2010
Member of the German Navy scientific team in the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT)
Since 2016
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Friendship System GmbH
Since 2016
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Potsdam Model Basin
Since Oct. 2019
Chairman of the Maritime Research Centre of Hamburg University of Technology
Fields of Research
- Ship Hydrodynamics
- Ship Dynamics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Design and Optimisation of Ship Propulsion Systems
- Renewable Maritime Energy
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Underwater Acoustics
Publications
2021
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Experimental data for JBC resistance, sinkage, trim, self-propulsion factors, longitudinal wave cut and detailed flow with and without an energy saving circular duct
Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (94): 23-51 (2021-01-01)
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2020
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Advances on simulation of wave-body interactions under consideration of the nonlinear free water surface
Ship Technology Research (in Press): (2020)
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Advances toward Numerical Prediction of Noise Emitted by Yacht and Passenger Ship Propellers
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft (2020)
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Self-aligning behaviour of a passively yawing floating offshore wind turbine
Ship Technology Research 1 (67): 15-25 (2020-01-02)
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A partitioned solution approach for the simulation of the dynamic behaviour of flexible marine propellers
Ship Technology Research 1 (67): 37-50 (2020-01-02)
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A partitioned solution approach for the simulation of dynamic behaviour and acoustic signature of flexible cavitating marine propellers
Ocean Engineering (197): 106854 (2020-02-01)
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Impact of forced roll motion on the ice resistance of modernicebreaking bow geometries
International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2020)
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Steady and Unsteady Hydrodynamic Loads on the Azimuth Bearing of a POD during a Crash-Stop Maneuver
Journal of ship research 1-16: SNAME-JSR-09180055 (2020-08-01)
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Turbulence modelling capabilities of ILES for propeller induced URN prediction
SNAME Maritime Convention, SMC: (2020-09)
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Passive self-aligning of a floating offshore wind turbine
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 5 (1618): 052027 (2020-09-22)
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Cfd investigations of ship propulsion performance at different trim angles
International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference: 2338-2344 (2020-10)
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Comparative study of hull form optimization with or without design-space dimensionality reduction
International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference: 3446-3454 (2020-10)
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Numerical investigation of propeller-rudder interaction based on body force approach
International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference: 3781-3788 (2020-10)
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Coupling wake alignment lifting line method and boundary element method for open water and unsteady propeller simulation
Ocean Engineering (213): 107738 (2020-10-01)
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Sound field properties of non-cavitating marine propellers
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8 (11): 885 (2020)
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2019
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Evaluation of performance and acoustic signature of flexible marine propellers under consideration of fluid-structure interaction by means of partitioned simulation
Sixth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors: 361–368 (2019)
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HYSTOH – Hydrodynamische und strukturmechanische Optimierung eines Halbtauchers für Offshore-Windenergie-Anlagen
Statustagung Maritime Technologien, Schriftenreihe Projektträger Jülich: 173–184. (2019)
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Evaluation of Underwater Sound Propagation of a Catamaran with Cavitating Propellers
International Symposium on Marine Propulsors (smp 2019)
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Propeller flow simulations in seaways including cavitation
International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering (Marine 2019)
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A Hybrid Calculation Concept for Single and Multi-Component Propulsors
Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors - smp'19, Rome, Italy (2019) vol. 2, 224-231
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Roll damping of a twin-screw vessel: Comparison of RANSE-CFD with established methods
Fluid Mechanics and its Applications (119): 191-209 (2019-01-01)
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Study on roll restoring arm variation using a three-dimensional hybrid panel method
Journal of Ship Research 2 (63): 94-107 (2019)
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Effects of radiation and diffraction forces on the prediction of parametric roll
Ocean Engineering (175): 262-272 (2019-03-01)
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Simulation of free running maneuvers of unmanned underwater vehicles based on a CFD study
International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference: 1656-1663 (2019-06)
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Analysis Methods and Design Measures for the Reduction of Noise and Vibration Induced by Marine Propellers
23rd International Congress on Acoustics (2019)
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Hydrodynamics of marine propulsion
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 18 (233): 6291-6292 (2019-09-01)
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Application of remeshed vortex method for the simulation of tip vortex at high Reynolds number
Aerospace Science and Technology (93): 105347 (2019-10)
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Simulation of the fluid-structure interaction of a floating wind turbine
Ships and Offshore Structures sup1 (14): 207-218 (2019-10-03)
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Experimental investigation of a downwind coned wind turbine rotor under yawed conditions: preliminary results
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1 (1356): 012018 (2019-10-24)
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2018
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Analytical prediction of reflection coefficients for wave absorbing layers in flow simulations of regular free-surface waves
Ocean Engineering (147): 132-147 (2018-01-01)
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Investigation of Reynolds Number Scale Effects on Propeller Tip Vortex Cavitation and Propeller-Induced Hull Pressure Fluctuations
10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV 2018)
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Steady and Unsteady Hydrodynamic Loads on the Azimuth Bearing of a POD during a Crash-Stop Maneuver
Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics (SNH 2018)
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Application of the remeshed vortex method to the simulation of 2D flow around circular cylinder and foil
Ship Technology Research 2 (65): 79-86 (2018-05-04)
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A boundary element-vortex particle hybrid method with inviscid shedding scheme
Computers and Fluids (168): 73-86 (2018-05-30)
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Forces on a submerged sub sea tidal kite in surface proximity
European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems, ECCM and 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD: 3213-3223 (2018-06)
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A panel method for floating offshore wind turbine simulations with fully integrated aero- and hydrodynamic modelling in time domain
Ship Technology Research 3 (65): 123-136 (2018-09-02)
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2017
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SimStopp: Entwicklung eines numerischen Modells zur Simulation von Stoppmanövern von Schiffen mit Verstellpropellern und elektrischen oder hybriden Antrieben innerhalb des Verbundprojektes OptiStopp: Optimierung des Stoppmanövers von Schiffen mit Verstellpropellern und Hybridantrieben
Schriftenreihe Schiffbau (2017)
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Efficient Prediction of Crashback Performance of Controllable Pitch Propellers
Symposium on Marine Propulsors (smp 2017)
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Simulating marine propellers with vortex particle method
Physics of Fluids 1 (29): 017103 (2017)
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Numerical investigation of the landing manoeuvre of a crew transfer vessel to an offshore wind turbine
Ships and Offshore Structures 12 (8): S115-S133 (2017)
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Flow study on a ducted azimuth thruster
International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE: 184-195 (2017-05)
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Analysis of unsteady flow over offshore wind turbine in combination with different types of foundations
Journal of Marine Science and Application 2 (16): 1-9 (2017-06-01)
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Mission-based hull-form and propeller optimization of a transom stern destroyer for best performance in the sea environment
International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE: 83-94 (2017-05)
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A Hybrid Numerical Method for Investigating Underwater Sound Propagation of Cavitating Propellers
International Symposium on Marine Propulsors (smp 2017)
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Dynamic positioning with Voith Schneider Propeller: Experimental system validation with a model-scale offshore supply vessel
International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, MMAR: 8046789 (2017-09-19)
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Static and dynamic analysis methods of position-keeping capability for offshore supply vessels with voith-schneider propellers
Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE (7A-2017): (2017)
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Application of a boundary element method for wave-body interaction problems considering the non-linear water surface
Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE (7A-2017): (2017)
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Comparison of different approaches tracking a wing-tip vortex
Ocean Engineering (147): 659-675 (2018)
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2016
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Experimental and numerical investigations on flow characteristics of the KVLCC2 at 30° drift angle
Transactions - Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (123): 139-164 (2016)
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Efficient Numerical Investigation of Propeller Cavitation Phenomena causing Higher-Order Hull Pressure Fluctuations
Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics (SNH 2016)
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Development of an Efficient Numerical Method for Coefficient-Based Simulations of Stopping Maneuvers
Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics (SNH 2016)
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Entwicklung von panMARE als Paneelverfahren für interdisziplinäre maritime Anwendungen
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft 2016
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Reliable damping of free-surface waves in numerical simulations
Ship Technology Research 1 (63): 1-13 (2016)
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Failure prediction of ship windows subjected to wave impacts
Ship Technology Research 3 (62): 159-172 (2015)
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Estimation of ship roll damping - A comparison of the decay and the harmonic excited roll motion technique for a post panamax container ship
Ocean Engineering (120): 371-382 (2016-07-01)
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Prediction of tip vortex cavitation inception with low-order panel method
Ocean Engineering (125): 124-133 (2016-10-01)
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Investigation of the unsteady flow behaviour on a wind turbine using a BEM and a RANSE method
Journal of Renewable Energy, vol. 2016, Article ID 6059741, 12 pages, 2016
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Convergence of different wake alignment methods in a panel code for steady-state flows
Journal of Marine Science and Technology (Japan) 4 (21): 567-578 (2016-12-01)
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A fast method to realize the pressure Kutta condition in boundary element method for lifting bodies
Ocean Engineering (130): 398-406 (2017-01-15)
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2015
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Assessment of uncertainty due to wave reflections in experiments via numerical flow simulations
International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference: 530-537 (2015-01)
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Influence of Flow Transition on Open and Ducted Propeller Characteristics
International Symposium on Marine Propulsors (2015)
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Time domain simulation of dynamic positioning manoeuvres based on impulse response functions
Marine Computational Methods in Marine Engineering VI: 750-761 (2015)
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Numerical Simulation of Propeller-Rudder Interaction for Non-Cavitating and Cavitating Flows Using Different Approaches
International Symposium on Marine Propulsors (smp 2015)
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Efficient simulation method to predict green water loads on superstructures
International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE (1): (2015-05)
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Simulation of safety-relevant situations regarding the interaction of service ships with offshore wind turbine plants
International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE: (2015-05)
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Numerical and experimental investigation regarding the landing manoeuvre of a catamaran vessel at an offshore wind turbine in waves
International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE (7): (2015-06)
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Numerical analysis of planing boats in shallow water using a 2D+T method
International Conference on Computer Applications in Shipbuilding, ICCAS 2015 (2): 59-69 (2015-09)
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Numerical analysis of a planing boat in head waves using a 2D+t method
Ship Technology Research 3 (62): 131-139 (2015-10-01)
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Numerical and experimental analysis of a ducted propeller designed by a fully automated optimization process under open water condition
China Ocean Engineering 5 (29): 733-744 (2015-10-03)
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Generation of free-surface waves by localized source terms in the continuity equation
Ocean Engineering (109): 567-579 (2015-11-15)
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2014
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Forschungsschwerpunkt Maritime Systeme - Zukunft gestalten - Forschung und wissenschaftliche Ausbildung
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2013
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Testing a semi-automated tool for the optimisation of full-scale marine propellers working behind a ship
Marine 2013 : computational methods in marine engineering V ; proceedings of the V International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, held in Hamburg, Germany, 29 - 31 May 2013 / CIMNE. Birgitt Brinkmann ... (ed.). - 1. ed. - Barcelona : Internat. Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2013. - Seite 512-529
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Research on automatic optimization of ducted propeller design based on CFD techniques
Shuidonglixue Yanjiu yu Jinzhan/Chinese Journal of Hydrodynamics Ser. A 4 (28): 438-444 (2013)
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Numerical analysis of ducted propeller performance under open water test condition
Journal of Marine Science and Technology (Japan) 3 (18): 381-394 (2013)
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2012
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Viscous-Inviscid Coupling Methods for Advanced Marine Propeller Applications
Martin Greve, Katja Wöckner-Kluwe, Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, and Thomas Rung, “Viscous-Inviscid Coupling Methods for Advanced Marine Propeller Applications,” International Journal of Rotating Machinery, vol. 2012, Article ID 743060, 12 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/743060
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Hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization of an Euler-Lagrange approach to cavitation modelling
Computers and Fluids 1 (80): 365-371 (2013)
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2011
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Advanced Lagrangian approaches to cavitation modelling in marine applications
MARINE 2011, IV International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering : Selected Papers / edited by Luís Eça, Eugenio Oñate, Julio García-Espinosa, Trond Kvamsdal, Pål Bergan. - Dordrecht : Springer ,2013. - (Computational methods in applied sciences ; 29). - Seite 217-234
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