Prof. Decheng Wan is Director of Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory (CMHL) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chair Professor of Chang Jiang Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Eastern Scholar, Shanghai Excellent Academic Leader, the adjunct full professor of University of Strathclyde of UK, Zhejiang University, Dalian University of Technology, respectively. He is now the President of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), the chair of ISOPE International Hydrodynamic Committee, chair of Executive Committee of International Workshop on Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics (IWSH), chair of Executive Committee of China National Conference on Marine CFD, member of Advisor Committee of International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), member of Steering Committee of International CFD Workshop in Ship Hydrodynamics, associate editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrodynamics, and member of editorial board of Ocean Engineering and Applied Ocean Research, etc.
Prof. Wan has been selected as TOP 2% scientists from all over the world by Stanford University. He is also awarded the most cited researchers by Elsevier, and TOP 0.05% global scholars by ScholarGPS. He received CH Kim Award, ISOPE Award, Prof. Peiyuan Zhou’s First Award of Hydrodynamics, Best paper of Moan-Faltinsen Award, etc. His research interest is mainly on computational marine and coastal hydrodynamics, numerical marine basin, nonlinear wave theory, wave loads on structures, numerical analysis of riser vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and platform vortex-induced motion (VIM), fluid-structure interaction, offshore wind turbine and other offshore renewable resources, etc. In these areas, he has published more than 500 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 60 patents and software copyrights. He has carried out more than 60 projects on marine hydrodynamics and computational hydrodynamics, and delivered over 100 invited or keynote presentations in international conferences. His remarkable work of development of numerical solvers for the complex flows in ship and ocean engineering have been recognized by the world-wide researchers in the field of marine hydrodynamics.