The First International Seminar on Hydrodynamic Modelling of Marine Vessels（IWMHM2018）was held in Ship and Sea Building from May 21st to 25th. Some middle-aged and young scholars in the field of marine hydrodynamic from more than ten universities and research institutes of seven countries, such as Norway, Denmark, France, England, Iran and Singapore and over 40 doctors and masters of this university attended the seminar.

The topic of the seminar is “Ocean waves”, some world-leading researchers in wave modeling . Especially, it was the first meeting of the developers of some open source codes. They focused on the academic exchange about the challenge problems in ocean waves in the development and application of ships and marine equipment.

IWMHM pioneered the One-hour- speech Mode focused on a specific research topic, the topics covered the research evolution of theory, numerical and experimental simulations, specialty in each direction and the latest application results.

It is generally reflected that through the 5 days communication, experts in meeting had learned new knowledge systematically and found the specific scientific problems of relevant academic direction which are still challenging. It opened up new approaches to international cooperation, and reached an agreement gradually through the further discussion--it is necessary to form an international team to cope with the common basic science problems at the common battlefield in the development and protection of the oceans.

The meeting was proposed by Duan Wenyang, the director of the National Research Center for Ship and Marine Engineering Mechanics, Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars of this university.