Pentti Kujala

Pentti Kujala

Senior Advisor
T212 Department of Energy and 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/...
Telefonnummer
+358400878145

Utmärkelser

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 Energy and 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 Energy and Mechanical Engineering Jan 2015

Forskningsgrupp

  • Marine and Arctic Technology, Senior Advisor

Publikationer

Systems driven intelligent decision support methods for ship collision and grounding prevention : Present status, possible solutions, and challenges

Mingyang Zhang, Ghalib Taimuri, Jinfen Zhang, Di Zhang, Xinping Yan, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris 2025 Reliability Engineering and System Safety

AL– a Prototype Autonomous Ship Model for Navigating in Ice Conditions

Victor Bolbot, Andrei Sandru, Ture Saarniniemi, Jan Hendrik Freter, Otto Puolakka, Pentti Kujala, Osiris Valdez Banda 2024 ASME 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering

A Ship Digital Twin for Safe and Sustainable Ship Operations

Spyros Hirdaris, Mingyang Zhang, Nikolaos Tsoulakos, Pentti Kujala 2024 State-of-the-Art Digital Twin Applications for Shipping Sector Decarbonization

A CFD study on the hydrodynamic response of a small-scale ice floe induced by a passing ship

Zongyu Jiang, Spyros Hirdaris, Sasan Tavakoli, Mikko Suominen, Pentti Kujala 2024 Journal of Hydrodynamics

A new material for modelling ice in glancing impact tests at room temperature

Zongyu Jiang, Mikko Suominen, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris 2024 Proceedings of the 27th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Gdansk, 2024)

A viscous investigation on the hydrodynamic coefficients and wave loads under the interaction of side-by-side cylinders in regular waves

Zongyu Jiang, Fang Li, Sasan Tavakoli, Pentti Kujala, Mikko Suominen, Spyros Hirdaris 2024 Ocean Engineering

The influence of waves and hydrodynamic interaction on energy-based evaluation of ice loads during a glancing impact in sea states

Zongyu Jiang, Pentti Kujala, Spyros Hirdaris, Fang Li, Tommi Mikkola, Mikko Suominen 2024 Ocean Engineering

Application of Digital Twins in the Design of New Green Transport Vessels

Austin A. Kana, Aleksandr Kondratenko, Wenzhu Li, Pentti Kujala, Isabel van Noesel, Spyros Hirdaris, Yusong Pang 2024 State-of-the-Art Digital Twin Applications for Shipping Sector Decarbonization

A voyage-level ship performance modelling approach for the simulation of the Finnish-Swedish winter navigation system

Ketki Kulkarni, Fang Li, Aleksander A. Kondratenko, Pentti Kujala 2024 Ocean Engineering