Dr.-Ing. Arash Abbasnia

Büro:
Universität Rostock
 Lehrstuhl für Meerestechnik
 Albert-Einstein-Str. 2 / 18059 Rostock
 Statikgebäude / 1.OG / Raum 117
Tel.:    
Email:arash.abbasniauni-rostockde
| 2011–2012 | Lecturer, Petroleum University of Technology (Iran) | 
| 2015-2016 | Assistant Professor, Petroleum University of Technology (Iran) | 
| 2014-2018 | Postdoc-Fellow, CENTEC – Instituto Superior Técnico, Lissabon (Portugal) | 
| 2018–2021 | Senior Researcher, CENTEC – Instituto Superior Técnico, Lissabon (Portugal) | 
| 2021-2022 | Forschungsstipendiat, Queen's University Belfast (UK) | 
| 2022-2023 | Dozent, Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | 
| seit 2023 | wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl Meerestechnik, Uni Rostock | 
Publikationen
Book Chapter:
Gautam Baruah, Madjid Karimirad, Dallan Friel, Pauline Mackinnon, Arash Abbasnia, Nabin 
Sarmah; 2022, Development of a CFD model for simulating a floating solar platform in irregular 
wave regimes, Trends in Renewable Energies Offshore – Guedes Soares (Ed), CRC Press, 717-
725. 
Arash Abbasnia; Serge Sutulo; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2022, " Three-dimensional potential 
seakeeping code in frequency domain for advancing ships", Trends in Maritime Technology and 
Engineering (Volume 1), CRC Press, 261-267. 
Arash Abbasnia; Serge Sutulo; Bert Callewaert; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2021, "Development of a 
three-dimensional frequency domain seakeeping code", Maritime Technology and Engineering, 
Taylor & Francis, 247-253. 
Kourosh Rezanejad; Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2021, "Hydrodynamic performance 
assessment of dual chamber shoreline Oscillating Water Column devices", Developments in 
Renewable Energies Offshore. Taylor & Francis, 9. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2018, "Hydrodynamic analysis of a land-based 
oscillating water column device using fully nonlinear numerical wave flume", Advances in 
Renewable Energies Offshore. ,Edited by C. Guedes Soares, Taylor & Francis, 465-473. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghaisi; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2015, "Fully non-linear time Domain 
simulation of 3D wave-body Interaction by numerical wave tank". Maritime Technology and 
Engineering, Edited by C. Guedes Soares and T. A. Santos, Taylor & Francis, 1019-1028. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; Juan Barandiaran; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2015, " An implicit 
model of a submerged horizontal cylinder oscillating about an off-centered axis as a wave 
energy converter", Renewable Energies Offshore, Edited by C. Guedes Soares, Taylor & Francis, 
247–255. 
Journal:
Arash Abbasnia; Madjid Karimirad; Dállan Friel; Trevor Whittaker 2022, " Fully nonlinear 
dynamics of floating solar platform with twin hull by tubular floaters in ocean waves", Ocean 
Engineering, Vol. 257: 111320. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2022, " Cartesian spatial derivatives of boundary 
element solutions on the exact free surface of fully nonlinear numerical wave tanks", 
Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 134: 532-538. 
Arash Abbasnia; Kourosh Rezanejad; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2021, " Adaptive fully nonlinear 
potential model for the free surface under compressible air pressure of oscillating water 
column devices", Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 133: 153-164. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2020, "OpenMP parallelism in computations of three-
dimensional potential numerical wave tank for fully nonlinear simulation of wave-body 
interaction using NURBS", Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 117: 321-331. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2019, "Fully nonlinear and linear ship waves modeling 
using the potential numerical towing tank and NURBS", Engineering Analysis with Boundary 
Elements, Vol. 103: 137-144. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2018, "Transient fully nonlinear ship waves using a 
three-dimensional NURBS numerical towing tank", Engineering Analysis with Boundary 
Elements, Vol. 91: 44-49. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2018, "Fully nonlinear simulation of wave interaction 
with a cylindrical wave energy converter in a numerical wave tank", Ocean Engineering, Vol. 
152: 210-222. 
Arash Abbasnia; Carlos Guedes Soares; 2017, "Exact evaluation of hydrodynamic loads on ships 
using NURBS surfaces and acceleration potential", Engineering Analysis with Boundary 
Elements, Vol. 85: 1-12. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; Amir Hossein Abbasnia; 2017, "Irregular wave transmission 
on bottom bumps using fully nonlinear NURBS numerical wave tank", Engineering Analysis with 
Boundary Elements, Vol. 82: 130-140. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2015, "Numerical prediction of hydrofoil performance in 
wave by NURBS numerical wave tank", Transaction of FAMENA, Vol. 39, No. 1: 89-109. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2015, "Fully nonlinear wave interaction with an array of 
truncated barriers in three dimensional numerical wave tank", Engineering Analysis with 
Boundary Elements, Vol. 58: 79-85. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2014, "Simulation of irregular waves over submerged 
obstacle on a NURBS potential numerical wave tank", Latin American Journal of solids and 
structures, Vol. 11, No. 13: 2308-2332. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2014, "A fully nonlinear wave interaction with an array of 
submerged cylinders by NURBS numerical wave tank and acceleration potential", Ships and 
Offshore Structures, Vol. 9, No. 4: 404-417.  
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2014, "Nonlinear wave transmission and pressure on the 
fixed truncated breakwater using NURBS numerical wave tank", Latin American Journal of 
solids and structures, Vol. 11, No. 1: 51-74. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2013, "evaluation of the modified 3D free-surface Green's 
function for potential flow in a numerical towing tank", Scientia Iranica, Vol. 20, No. 5: 1538-
2549. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; 2013, "Simulation of nonlinear wave interaction with dual 
cylinders in the fully nonlinear numerical wave tank", Transaction of FAMENA, Vol. 37, No. 1: 
35-48. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; Mohammad Hossein Sharifi; 2012, "Hydrodynamic 
modeling of fluid body interaction by fully non-linear numerical towing tank", The Journal of 
Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 4, No.3: 456-462. 
Mohammad Mohseni; Hamid Zeraatgar; Arash Abbasnia; 2011, "Investigation of surface wave 
arising from uniform motion of submerged source in shallow and restricted water", Journal of 
Marine Science and Technology, Vol. 50: 29-38. (In Persian) 
Mahmoud Ghiasi; Arash Abbasnia; Mohammad Mohseni; 2010, "Surface ship waves numerical 
simulation due to floating structure motion in shallow water", Journal of Marine Science and 
Technology, Vol. 49: 55-65. (In Persian) 
A. Moghtadaei· M. Karimirad, A. ·Abbasnia, C. · Young, T. Whittaker (2025): “Analysis of shallow water steep waves interaction with a bottom-fixed monopile offshore wind turbine using an implicit Navier–Stokes and experimental model”, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, DOI: 10.1007/s40722-025-00414-9.
Conferences:
Arash Abbasnia; Gautam Baruah; Madjid Karimirad; Trevor Whittaker; "Geometric parametric 
analysis and dynamics of a floating solar platform in nonlinear wave regimes", Proceedings of 
the ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering 
(OMAE2022), June 2022, Hamburg, Germany. 
Gautam Baruah; Madjid Karimirad, Arash Abbasnia; Abdolmajid Moghtadaie; Paulin 
MacKonnin; Nabin Sarmah; "Numerical simulation of nonlinear wave Interaction with floating 
solar platforms with double tubular floaters using viscous flow model", Proceedings of the 
ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering 
(OMAE2022), June 2022, Hamburg, Germany. 
Amir Honaryar; Madjid Karimirad; Arash Abbasnia; Trevor Whittaker; "Wind Parameters 
effects on floating solar array design - Case study: Japan's largest floating solar array", 
Proceedings of the ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic 
Engineering (OMAE2022), June 2022, Hamburg, Germany. 
Reza Siahtiri; Abdolrahim Taheri; Arash Abbasnia; "Evaluation of touch down point 
displacement of cable catenary risers under random wave", 24th Annual International 
Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ISME), April 2016, Yazd, Iran. 
Mehdi Hazarkhani; Arash Abbasnia; "Development of a numerical model for simulation of 
interaction between ocean current and submerged pipeline", In Proceedings of the 5th Iranian 
Pipe & Pipeline Conference, Dec. 2013, Tehran, Iran. (In Persian) 
Mehdi Hazarkhani; Arash Abbasnia; "Simulation of interaction between two vertical cylinders 
with different arrangements underneath turbulence flow", In Proceedings of the 15th Marin 
Industry Conference (MIC 2013), Oct. 2013, Kish Island, Iran. (In Persian) 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; "Evaluation of three dimensional fundamental solution due 
to uniform motion of a constant strength disturbance source under free surface and channel’s 
walls boundary conditions", In Proceedings of the 4th National Offshore Industry Conference 
(OIC 2011), Mar. 2011, Tehran, Iran. (In Persian) 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; "Flow analysis about non-lifting submerged bodies based on 
non-singular boundary integral equation", In Proceedings of the 4th National Offshore Industry 
Conference (OIC 2011), Mar. 2011, Tehran, Iran. (In Persian) 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; Amir Hosein Abbasnia; "Free surface flow modeling based 
on boundary integral equation and Dawson method", In Proceedings of the 13th Marin Industry 
Conference (MIC 2011), Nov. 2011, Kish Island, Iran. (In Persian) 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; Seyed Mohammad Hosein Sharifi; "3D non-linear modeling 
of AUV Motion based on boundary integral equation and Dawson method", In Proceedings of 
the 13th Marin Industry Conference (MIC 2011), Nov. 2011, Kish Island, Iran. (In Persian) 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; "Investigation of wave Pattern due to ship motion in the 
channel", In Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Symposium of Mechanical 
Engineering (ISME 2010), May 2010, Tehran, Iran. (In Persian) 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghiasi; "The effects of rectangular channel's walls on computation 
of the 3D Green’s function of uniform motion", In Proceedings of the 11th International 
Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS 2010), Sept. 
2010, In Press, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
Arash Abbasnia; Mahmoud Ghaisi; "3D numerical simulation of ship motion in shallow water 
by boundary element method", In Proceedings of the 11th Marin Industry Conference (MIC 
2009), Oct. 2009, Kish Island, Iran. (In Persian) 
A. Abbasnia, S. Kosleck, H. Hartmann, F. Adam (2025): “Statistical ULS evaluation of tension leg slackline for lightweight TLP platforms in unidirectional long crest wave using linear and second-order potential flow solvers”, 44th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2025), 22-27 June. Vancouver.
G. Baruah, M. Karimirad, A. Abbasnia (2025), “Influence of geometrical characteristics of cylindrical floater on the dynamic responses of floating solar platforms under irregular waves”, 44th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2025), 22-27 June. Vancouver.
A. Abbasnia, S. Kosleck, E. Buhr, M. Lutz, F. Adam (2024), “Volumetric design for hydrodynamic response of modularized lightweight TLP structures under irregular waves”, 43nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2024), 9-14 June, Singapore.
