DUANMenglan: Menglan Duan (College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China) Menglan Duan is the Dean of the College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, and a Professor of solid mechanics and ocean engineering. Professor Duan is an astute scholar with international reputation and has published over 400 technical papers including 104 SCI-indexed journal papers. He has covered a wide range of research areas and has conducted over 170 projects related to fixed and mobile platforms, subsea pipelines and risers, subsea production systems in Artic Mechanics and Offshore Engineering, Subsea Engineering, Fatigue and Failures of Materials and Structures, Dynamics of Offshore Engineering Structures, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, and Risk and Reliability in Offshore and Ocean Engineering. His other areas of interest include management and economic analysis of oil/gas projects. ONUOHAMac Darlington Uche: Mac Darlington Uche Onuoha (College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing, China) Mac Darlington Uche Onuoha is an Assistant Professor of Solid/Fluid Mechanics and Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering at the College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing. Dr. Onuoha is a young scholar with strong academic and research accomplishments. He has authored 7 publications in top international journals and conferences covering research areas such as, Flow Assurance in Deepwater Pipelines and Risers, Dynamics of Deepwater Riser Structures induced by Internal Severe Slug Loads, Multiphase Flow Simulation in Pipeline-Riser System, Finite Element Modeling and Analysis (FEM/FEA) of Offshore Structures, and Petroleum Economics and Feasibility Analysis of Upstream Investment. His research interest focuses on Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) of Subsea Production Systems, Dynamic Behaviour of Rigid & Flexible Risers, and Computational Fluid Dynamics of Multiphase Flows in Flowlines-Riser Pipe Systems.
