Kadir Sarıöz

Professor Kadir Sarıöz is a full-time faculty member at Istanbul Technical University in the Department of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering. His career spans over three decades of research and teaching in naval architecture and ocean engineering, focusing on seakeeping, ship maneuvering, hull-form optimization, and hydrodynamic simulation.

Research Interests

Professor Sarıöz’s work revolves around the hydrodynamic performance of marine vehicles. His investigations include:

• Seakeeping behavior of high-speed and conventional displacement hulls
• Experimental and computational ship maneuvering in calm water and waves
• Optimization algorithms for hull-form and propeller design under mission-specific constraints
• Dynamic positioning capability analysis under realistic environmental loads
• Simulation-based routing of large tankers through restricted waterways such as the Istanbul Strait

Recent Projects

• 2021 – 2023: “Refakat Römorkörü Performansının Çok Serbestlik Dereceli Deneysel ve Hesaplamalı Analizi” (Revolving Fund, Principal Investigator)
• 2020: “Shell Antalya Terminali B şamandıra sistemindeki boru hattının tadilatı incelemesi” (Revolving Fund, Principal Investigator)

Publication Trends

Between 1990 and 2025, Professor Sarıöz has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Early works concentrated on practical seakeeping criteria and automated hull fairing, while recent contributions emphasize system-based maneuvering prediction, multi-objective optimization of naval combatant hulls, and environmentally driven dynamic positioning analyses. A clear progression from empirical and semi-empirical methods to high-fidelity CFD and experimental validation is evident.

Laboratory & Facilities

His research is supported by the university’s towing tank and planar motion mechanism facilities, equipped with modern motion controllers and servo-motor systems enabling precise captive maneuvering tests.