Lothar Birk, Dr.-Ing., P.E. Associate Professor Undergraduate Program Advisor Room EN 933 Phone: (504) 280-6183 Send an e-mail to Lothar Birk

Education:

• Dr.-Ing.,
  Institute of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, 1998
• Dipl.-Ing.,
  Institute of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, 1990
• Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Louisiana
  License No. 33201, 2007

Research Interests:

• Form parameter based hull design;
• Hydrodynamic shape optimization and optimization algorithms;
• Wave-body interaction, stochastic analysis and panel methods;
• Design assessment criteria.

Current Research:

• Application of global optimization strategies to the design of offshore structures
• Parametric hull design methods
• Next generation panel methods for hydrodynamic shape optimization

Selected Recent Publications:

• L. Birk (2007). Application of constraint multi-objective optimization to the design of offshore structure hulls. In Proc. of 26th Int. Conf. on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE '07), San Diego, CA, ASME.
• L. Birk (2006). Parametric Modeling and shape optimization of offshore structures. International Journal of CAD/CAM, 6(1):29-40, December.
• L. Birk, G.F. Clauss and J.Y. Lee (2004). Practical application of global optimization to the design of offshore structures. In Proc. of 23rd Int. Conf. on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE '04), Vancouver, Canada, ASME.
• C. Abt, L. Birk and S. Harries (2003). Parametric hull design: The FRIENDSHIP-Modeler. In International Conference on Ship and Shipping Research, XIV Congress NAV 2003 , volume 1, pages 3.3.1-3.3.10, Palermo, Italy.
• L. Birk and S. Harries, editors (2003). Optimistic -- Optimization in Marine Design Mensch & Buch Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-89820-514-2.
• G.J. Grigoropoulos, S. Harries, D.P. Damala, L. Birk and J. Heimann. Seakeeping assessment for high-speed monohulls -- a comparative study. In Proc. of 8th Int. Marine Design Conference (IMDC 2003), Athens, Greece, National Technical University of Athens.