
SCC is home to TalTech Naval Architecture and Hydrodynamics Research Group led by Professor Mihkel Kõrgesaar.
Research focuses on the behaviour of small crafts, ships and marine structures in normal and extreme environments. Our driving motivation is to enable better, safer, and more energy-efficient future ship concepts that serve societal and industrial needs.
Hydrodynamics
The group’s first field of research is Hydrodynamics and Fluid-structure interaction. The goal here is to increase the energy efficiency and to improve the behavior of watercraft in different operational conditions.
The research is supported by the competence centre infrastructure that connects the possibilities of a towing tank and computer simulations. The SCC research infrastructure enables scientists to emulate weather conditions and accidents and to investigate ship behaviour in various situations and operational conditions.
Ship Structures
In the field of ship structures, novel computational methods are studied and created to evaluate the behaviour of ship structures at accidental and ultimate limit states. Such knowledge is especially important for assessing risks linked to collision and grounding accidents. The traditional simplified methods used in shipbuilding do not include all relevant factors. An effective computational method is a user-friendly tool that allows justified simplifications to quickly design big and complex structures. It is the job of scientists to define the scope of the simplifications.
The main research methods in the study of ship structures are material tests and numerical simulations. Computer simulations provide an overview of the processes at work in materials and constructions while experimental tests are used to validate hypotheses and discover new deformation and fracture mechanisms.
The research group welcomes international interns! Please see https://taltech.ee/incoming-internship.
Research Group Leader

MIHKEL KÕRGESAAR, DSc
Laevade turvalisusLaevaehituse professor +372 5343 9557 mihkel.korgesaar@taltech.ee ETIS
Group Members
MIKLOŠ LAKATOŠ, MSc
Arvutuslik hüdrodünaamika
Doktorant-nooremteadur – Meretehnika ja väikelaevaehituse õppeprogrammi juht
+358 40017 8556
miklos.lakatos@taltech.ee
ETIS
TEGUH PUTRANTO, MSc
Laevade turvalisus
Doktorant-nooremteadur – DoRa stipendiaat
teguh.putranto@taltech.ee
ETIS
TARMO SAHK, MSc
Eksperimentaaluuringud, mudelkatsed
Laborite juht
+372 5661 9989
tarmo.sahk@taltech.ee
ETIS
KAAREL KOPPEL, MSc
Mere-elektroonika
Mehhatroonikainsener – Lektor
+372 5383 3119
kaarel.koppel@taltech.ee
KALJU SAAR, MSc
Disain ja projekteerimine, nõuded väikelaevadele
Nooremarhitekt – Lektor
+372 5300 4582
kalju.saar@taltech.ee
Support
HENRIK ANDREASSON, MSc
Hüdrodünaamika, meretehnoloogia, mudelkatsed
Mentor
+467 2310 4000
henrik@flownaval.se
RUTTAR TEÄR, BSc
Mudelkatsed, materjalikatsed
Mehaanik-laborant
+372 511 8715
ruttar.tear@taltech.ee
Open Access Research Publications
- Sang Jin Kim, Mihkel Kõrgesaar, Nima Ahmadi, Ghalib Taimuri, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris; The influence of fluid structure interaction modelling on the dynamic response of ships subject to collision and grounding; Marine Structures, Volume 75, 2021.
- Fang Li, Mihkel Kõrgesaar, Pentti Kujala, Floris Goerlandt; Finite element based meta-modeling of ship-ice interaction at shoulder and midship areas for ship performance simulation; Marine Structures, Volume 71, 2020.
- Mikloš Lakatoš, Kristjan Tabri, Abbas Dashtimanesh, Henrik Andreasson; Numerical Modelling of a Planing Craft with a V-Shaped Spray Interceptor Arrangement in Calm Water; 12th Symposium on High Speed Marine Vehicles, October 2020.
- Mikloš Lakatoš, Tarmo Sahk, Henrik Andreasson, Kristjan Tabri; Resistance Tests of a Series of Chine Interceptors on a Planing Craft; High Speed Vessels, July 2020.
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