Pentti Kujala

Pentti Kujala

Senior Advisor
T212 Mechanical Engineering
Senior Advisor

I am a professor emeritus of Marine technology. I have been working on the safety of ships both in open water and in ice. My main research interests during my  40- year long career have been devoted to full scale measurements of ice induced loads and analysis of the ice load statistics, simulation of ship performance in ice, development of advanced structural solutions for ships and development of system level safety of marine traffic.

I have also been Vice Dean of the School of Engineering with the main duties related to the Impact and Innovation activities of the School. I have extensive national and international co-operation heading e.g. the Center of Excellence for safe Arctic shipping funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation from London (http://cearctic.aalto.fi/en/)

Resarch Group: Marine Technology: http://mecheng.aalto.fi/en/research/marine_technology/

List of publications and other research outputs: https://research.aalto.fi/en/persons/pentti-kujala(0d29001d-377a-499f-be1f-e2a1808939bc)/publications.html

Background

Before Aalto, I have been working e..g on Lloyd's Register of Shipping in London, VTT and Aker Yards.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Contact information

Phone number
+358400878145

Honors and awards

EU-Transportation Research Award 2020

Best senior researcher in the Waterborne sector: Improving the safety of ships operating in ice-covered waters
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Mechanical Engineering Sep 2020

Aalto Education Impact Award, 2018

Aalto Education Impact Award, 2018 on Contribution to Establishment of Marine technology study program to network University Finnish Institute of technology
Award or honor granted for a specific work Marine Technology Sep 2018

Honorary Fellowship of TRANSNAV congress

Since 2015
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Mechanical Engineering Jan 2015

Research groups

  • Marine and Arctic Technology, Senior Advisor

Publications

Numerical studies on tugboat performance during pushing operations

Zeiad Abdelghafor, Ghalib Taimuri, Pentti Kujala, Youjiang Wang, Spyros Hirdaris 2023 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics

Implementation of the Polar Code - Perspectives on the Code Five Years On

Rob Hindley, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris 2023 Proceedings of the International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC)

A boundary element method for the prediction of hydrodynamic ship - ice -wave interactions in regular waves

Zongyu Jiang, Fang Li, Tommi Mikkola, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris 2023 JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING

A CFD investigation of the effects of passing ship on a small size ice floe

Zongyu Jiang, Mikko Suominen, Sasan Tavakoli, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris 2023 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics

Decarbonizing shipping in ice by intelligent icebreaking assistance: A case study of the Finnish-Swedish winter navigation system

Aleksandr Kondratenko, Ketki Kulkarni, Fang Li, Mashrura Musharraf, Spyros Hirdaris, Pentti Kujala 2023 Ocean Engineering

Enhancing the sustainability of the Finnish-Swedish Winter Navigation System by intelligent icebreaking assistance

Aleksandr Kondratenko, Ketki Kulkarni, Fang Li, Mashrura Musharraf, Spyros Hirdaris, Pentti Kujala 2023

Holistic and sustainable design optimization of Arctic ships

Aleksandr Kondratenko, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris 2023 Ocean Engineering

Simulation tool for winter navigation decision-support in the Baltic Sea

Pentti Kujala, Ketki Kulkarni, Mashrura Musharraf, Liangliang Lu, Aleksandr Kondratenko 2023

Decision-support for winter navigation operations

Ketki Kulkarni, Mashrura Musharraf, Cong Liu, Pentti Kujala 2023

Factor analysis of icebreaker assistance operation for ice-going ships in the Baltic Sea

Cong Liu, Ketki Kulkarni, Mashrura Musharraf, Pentti Kujala 2023 Proceedings of the International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions, POAC