- Professor, Ocean Engineering
- Bauer Professor II
- Wofford Cain Chair I
- Director, Ocean System Simulation and Control Lab
- Phone: 979-847-8710
- Email: m-kim3@tamu.edu
- Office: HEB 216C
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 1988
- M.S., Seoul National University – 1983
- B.S., Seoul National University – 1981
Research Interests
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- Floating offshore wind turbines
- Nonlinear dynamics of offshore platforms
- Multi-vessel/riser/mooring coupled dynamic analysis
- Wave mechanics and free-surface flows
- Numerical wave tank; LNG tank sloshing
- Computational fluid dynamics MPS (moving particle simulation)
- Wind, current, and wave energy conversion (ocean renewable energy)
- Hydroelasticity of VLFS (very large floating structures)
- Interaction of waves with porous or flexible membrane
- Smart offshore platforms/active control; dynamic positioning
- Ice interaction with offshore platforms/vessels
- Ocean mining and ocean CO2 sequestration
Awards & Honors
- 2017 Elected as Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2017 Elected as Fellow, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
- 2017 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award
- 2015 WBCC Faculty Fellow Award
- 2014 Key-note speaker at Korea-America Offshore Engineers Association Forum
- 2013 Key-note speaker at plenary session of ASEM International Conference
- 2012 Best paper award by Korean Society of Ocean Engineering
- 2009 TEES Fellow for Outstanding Research Accomplishment
Selected Publications
- Bae, Y.H., Kim, M.H., Kim, H.C., “Performance Changes of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine in Mooring Line Broken Condition”, Renewable Energy Journal, Vol.101, 364-375, 2017
- Cifuentes, C., Kim, S.J., Kim, M.H., and Park, W.S., “Numerical simulation of the coupled dynamic response of a submerged floating tunnel with mooring lines in regular waves”, Ocean Systems Engineering, International Journal, Vol.5, No.2, , 2015
- Bae, Y.H. and Kim, M.H., “Coupled dynamic analysis of multiple wind turbines on a large floater” Ocean Engineering Vol.92, 175-187, 2014
- Kim, K.S. and Kim, M.H., and Park, J.C., “Simulation of multi-liquid-layer sloshing with vessel motion by using moving particle simulations”, J. of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol.137, #5, 2015
- Kim, S.J. and Kim, M.H., “Dynamic behaviors of conventional SCR and Lazy-wave SCR for FPSOs in deep water, Ocean Engineering, Vol.106, 396-414, 2015
- Kang, H.Y. and Kim, M.H., “Hydroelastic dynamic analysis and statistical assessment of flexible offshore platforms”, Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol.24, #1, p35-44, 2014
- Cho, I.H. and Kim, M.H., “Wave Absorbing System Using Inclined Perforated Plates”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.608, 1-20, 2008
- Cho, I.H. and Kim, M.H., “Interaction of a horizontal flexible membrane with oblique incident waves” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.367, 139-161, 1998