Here I list some master's project ideas. If you are accepted to our master's program at UH-Manoa and interested in any of the below topics (or derivatives), please reach out. These are hot research topic areas with potential of growth. There is also a growing interest from the industry towards these areas.

Experimental investigation of piezo controlled flexible cylinders for renewable energy purposes

Design and test flexible cables in a flow tank

Offshore wind research and development

Numerical and/or experimental development of a floating offshore wind platform. economic and feasibility analysis.

Marine Transportation Technologies

Big data analysis | Machine learning | Reduced-order modeling | Artificial Intelligence : Analyzing the shipping routes to find out the global trend towards Arctic/ Sub-Arctic waters. Optimization of ship routes.

Development of new force models for offshore structures in harsh environmental conditions.

Updating the Morison's equation. Study the available data using data driven modeling techniques.

Hydrokinetic Energy

Experimental and/or numerical. Design of a new hydrokinetic energy device (underwater/floating/bottom fixed). Numerical modeling of basic characteristics and test in a flow tank/ wave flume.