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Conference Highlights
Professor Chiang C. Mei
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Conference Highlights
Special Symposia
C.C. Mei Symposium on Wave Mechanics and Hydrodynamics
This symposium honors the significant accomplishments
of Professor Chiang C. Mei in the fields of wave
mechanics and hydrodynamics. Professor Mei has been
one of the leaders in these fields. His former and current
students and colleagues will join us to celebrate his
extraordinary accomplishments of the last 45 years.
Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium
This is the third year that a specialty symposium is
being organized to specifically focus on ocean renewable
energy developments and challenges. There is a
growing worldwide demand to increase the supply
of renewable energy and the world’s oceans offer the
resources to meet these goals. However, to exploit the
potentials offered by ocean energy resources, various
regulatory and technology challenges must be
addressed by the engineering and scientific communities.
The objective of this Symposium is to provide a
forum for the presentation of relevant information and
views on regulatory and technology issues to enhance
the exploitation of ocean renewable energy resource.
Offshore Measurement and Data Interpretation Symposium
This symposium is now entering its third year. The
focus is metocean and structural response measurement,
in the complex and hostile environment of the
real ocean. Interpretation of these data furthers the
understanding of metocean processes and how they
should be characterised for engineering applications.
Offshore Geotechnics Symposium
Recent scientific and engineering developments in
geotechnical engineering with a focus on offshore
applications. Topics include, but are not limited to:
shallow and pile foundations, suction caissons, drag
and plate anchors, centrifuge modeling, geohazards,
site investigations, seabed mechanics, fluid-soil-structure
interaction, geotechnics of pipelines, trenching,
geoacoustics for seafloor characterization, in situ testing
and sampling.
Petroleum Technology Symposium
Petroleum Technology Symposium consists of different
sub-disciplines within the area of petroleum
and mechanical engineering. Some of the topics to
be included are: Flow Assurance, Multiphase flow
and measurement issues at the well/manifolds and
in flowlines, Description and Optimization of Well
Performance, Well Completion, Inflow Performance,
Systems (Nodal) Analysis, Artificial Lift Design and
Analysis, Power requirements for ESPs and long offsets
for production, Production Optimization, Drilling
Optimization, Drilling Technology, Deepwater HTHP
(high temperature high pressure) wells, HIPPS (high
integrity pressure protection system).
Joint Forum of ‘Offshore Technology’ and ‘Structures, Safety
and Reliability’ and ‘Ocean Engineering’ Symposia on
Shallow Water Waves and Hydrodynamics
Partial List of Topics included are Low frequency wave
content of near-shore waves (infra-gravity waves),
Near-shore wave propagation and effects of the shoreline,
Low-frequency drift forces in long- and shortcrested
waves, Low-frequency response of moored
vessels, Mooring behavior in shallow water, Effects of
seabed bathymetry, Methods for shallow-water model
testing, Extreme wave propagation in shallow water,
Extreme wave statistics in shallow water, Shallow-water
wave modeling and associated loads.