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.

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Experimental investigation of piezo controlled flexible cylinders for renewable energy purposes

Design and test flexible cables in a flow tank

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Offshore wind research and development

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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