
Dr Nataliia Sergiienko
Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Ocean Wave Energy
- hydrodynamic modelling of ocean wave energy converters (WECs)
- control of multi-degree-of-freedom WECs
- layout optimisation of a wave farm
Offshore Wind Energy
- hybrid wave-wind platforms
- dynamics and control of floating offshore wind turbines
Honours Projects
Aerospace |
Co-supervision | ||
2021 | Lunar crate exploration | 4 students | A/Prof Rini Akmeliawati |
2020 | Drone for weed control | 6 students | A/Prof Rini Akmeliawati |
2020 | Design, build and test a dual fuel turbine engine | 1 student | |
2020 | Design and build a perching UAV | 6 students | Prof Maziar Arjomandi |
2019 | Design, build and test a CubeSat | 6 students | Prof Maziar Arjomandi |
Robotics |
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2020 | Robotic vulnerable road user platform | 4 students | Andrew van den Berg |
2020 | Active kangaroo target | 3 students | Dr David Harvey Andrew van den Berg |
Renewables |
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2022 | Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy | 6 students | Prof Ben Cazzolato |
2021 | Offshore wind turbine control | 6 students | Prof Maziar Arjomandi |
2020 | Design, build and test a floating wind turbine | 1 student | Leandro Souza Pinheiro da Silva |
2019 | Automatic alignment of a heliostat | 2 students | Prof Ben Cazzolato |
2017 | Surging and pitching wave energy converters | 1 student | Prof Ben Cazzolato |
2016 | Heaving buoy wave energy converter | 3 students | Prof Ben Cazzolato |
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2019 - ongoing Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering University of Adelaide 2016 - 2016 Casual tutor - Advanced PID Control University of Adelaide 2015 - 2017 Casual tutor - Dynamics and Control II (Auto Control II) University of Adelaide 2014 - 2016 Casual tutor - Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics) University of Adelaide 2007 - 2012 Software engineer Innalabs Ltd -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can peer review Russian Can peer review Ukrainian Can peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2014 - 2018 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia PhD in Mechanical Engineering 2005 - 2007 National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI' Ukraine Master of Engineering (Control Systems for Aerospace Vehicles) 2001 - 2005 National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI' Ukraine Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace)
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Sergiienko, N. Y., Bacelli, G., Coe, R. G., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2022). A comparison of efficiency-aware model-predictive control approaches for wave energy devices. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 8(1), 17-29.
Scopus12022 Neshat, M., Mirjalili, S., Sergiienko, N. Y., Esmaeilzadeh, S., Amini, E., Heydari, A., & Garcia, D. A. (2022). Layout optimisation of offshore wave energy converters using a novel multi-swarm cooperative algorithm with backtracking strategy: A case study from coasts of Australia. Energy, 239, 29 pages.
Scopus7 WoS72022 Meng, F., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., Chen, H., Xu, H., & Li, Y. (2022). Power set-point tracking of a point absorber with multiple power take-off units in irregular waves. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 13(2), 767-777.
2022 Schubert, B. W., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Robertson, W. S. P., & Ghayesh, M. H. (2022). The true potential of nonlinear stiffness for point absorbing wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 245, 12 pages.
2022 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2022). Design considerations for a three-tethered point absorber wave energy converter with nonlinear coupling between hydrodynamic modes. Ocean Engineering, 254, 111351.
2022 Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Bachynski-Polić, E. E., Cazzolato, B. S., Arjomandi, M., & Ding, B. (2022). Review of scaling laws applied to floating offshore wind turbines. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 162, 112477.
2021 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Wuillaume, P. -Y., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2021). On the importance of nonlinear hydrodynamics and resonance frequencies on power production in multi-mode WECs. Applied Ocean Research, 117, 1-14.
2021 Skene, D. M., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. (2021). The prospect of combining a point absorber wave energy converter with a floating offshore wind turbine. Energies, 14(21), 7385-1-7385-24.
2021 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B. S., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2021). Efficient estimation of the nonlinear aerodynamic loads of floating offshore wind turbines under random waves and wind in frequency domain. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 7(3), 287-303.
Scopus22021 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2021). Nonlinear Dynamics of a Floating OffshoreWind Turbine Platform via Statistical Quadratization - Mooring, Wave and Current In-teraction. Ocean Engineering, 236, 1-13.
Scopus2 WoS12021 Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2021). Importance of drivetrain optimisation to maximise electrical power from wave energy converters. IET Renewable Power Generation, 15(14), 11 pages.
Scopus2 WoS22021 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Mirjalili, S., Nezhad, M. M., Piras, G., & Garcia, D. A. (2021). Multi-mode wave energy converter design optimisation using an improved moth flame optimisation algorithm. Energies, 14(13), 1-17.
Scopus3 WoS32021 Gu, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2021). Power maximising control of a heaving point absorber wave energy converter. IET Renewable Power Generation, 15(14), 3296-3308.
Scopus12021 Sergiienko, N. Y., Cocho, M., Cazzolato, B. S., & Pichard, A. (2021). Effect of a model predictive control on the design of a power take-off system for wave energy converters. Applied Ocean Research, 115, 12 pages.
Scopus1 WoS12020 Neshat, M., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). A hybrid cooperative co-evolution algorithm framework for optimising power take offand placements of wave energy converters. Information Sciences, 534, 218-244.
Scopus14 WoS122020 Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2020). New insights into position optimization of wave energy converters using hybrid local search. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 59, 100744-1-100744-18.
Scopus6 WoS62020 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Morishita, H., & Pesce, C. (2020). Statistical linearization of the Morison’s equation applied to wave energy converters. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 6(2), 157-169.
Scopus72020 Schubert, B., Robertson, W., Cazzolato, B., Ghayesh, M., & Sergiienko, N. (2020). Performance enhancement of submerged wave energy device using bistability. Ocean Engineering, 213, 14 pages.
Scopus6 WoS52020 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The impact of pitch-surge coupling on the performance of a submerged cylindrical wave energy converter. Applied Ocean Research, 104, 1-17.
Scopus3 WoS32020 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Amini, E., Nezhad, M. M., Garcia, D. A., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). A new bi-level optimisation framework for optimising a multi-modewave energy converter design: A case study for the marettimo island, mediterranean sea. Energies, 13(20), 5498.
Scopus10 WoS102020 Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N. Y., Pesce, C. P., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., & Morishita, H. M. (2020). Stochastic analysis of nonlinear wave energy converters via statistical linearization. Applied Ocean Research, 95, 15 pages.
Scopus12 WoS62019 Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Li, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). A sensitivity study on the effect of mass distribution of a single-tether spherical point absorber. Renewable Energy, 141, 583-595.
Scopus7 WoS62019 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., Ding, B., & Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L. (2019). Considerations on the control design for a three-tether wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 183, 469-477.
Scopus12 WoS82019 Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). The application of modal analysis to the design of multi-mode point absorber wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 171, 603-618.
Scopus13 WoS72018 Sergiienko, N., Rafiee, A., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Feasibility study of the three-tether axisymmetric wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 150, 221-233.
Scopus26 WoS222017 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Performance comparison of the floating and fully submerged quasi-point absorber wave energy converters. Renewable Energy, 108, 425-437.
Scopus41 WoS362016 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). An optimal arrangement of mooring lines for the three-tether submerged point-absorbing wave energy converter. Renewable Energy, 93, 27-37.
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Conference Papers
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2019 Sergiienko, N., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). CubeSat as a tool for training engineers of the future. Poster session presented at the meeting of Collection of abstracts from the 19th Australian Space Research Conference. Adelaide. 2016 Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). Performance comparison of the floating and fully submerged point absorber wave energy converters. Poster session presented at the meeting of General Information and programme including abstracts and biographies of Australian Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium. Melbourne: CSIRO. 2015 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., & Ding, B. (2015). An optimal arrangement of mooring lines for the three-tether submerged point-absorbing wave energy converter. Poster session presented at the meeting of Program: KOZWaves 2015: The 2nd Australasian Conference on Wave Science. Adelaide: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
Year | Award | Funding | |
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2020 | Best Paper Award (Real World Application) | GECCO 2020 | |
2019 | Women’s Research Excellence Award | The University of Adelaide | $5,000 |
2019 | SA Fresh Scientist | ||
2019 | Best Paper Award (Real World Application) | GECCO 2019 | |
2018 | Dean's Commendation For Doctoral Thesis Excellence | The University of Adelaide | |
2017 | Best Research Quality in Control | Centre for Energy Technology | |
2014 | Australian Postgraduate Award | The University of Adelaide | |
2005 | Ukraine Parliament Scholarship | ||
2004 | The Pavlovsky Scholarship | National Technical University of Ukraine | |
2003 | The Kyiv Mayor Scholarship for Gifted Youth |
Grants:
Years | Grant title | Scheme | Amount awarded |
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2021 | Advanced Control: The fast-track to commercialisation of wave energy converters | Access to Pawsey Supercomputers – Energy and Resources Merit Allocation Scheme | 750,000 core hours |
2020 | Advanced Control: The fast-track to commercialisation of wave energy converters | Access to Pawsey Supercomputers – Energy and Resources Merit Allocation Scheme | 250,000 core hours |
2020 | Ultra-fine Attitude Control via Event-based Star Tracking and Piezoelectric Stabilisation | SmartSat CRC | $600,000 |
2020 | Adaptive Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography for Multiphase Flows | ARC LIEF | $760,000 |
Date | Position | Institution | Subject |
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2019 - 2020 | Course coordinator, Lecturer | The University of Adelaide | Space Vehicle Design |
2019 - 2020 | Course coordinator, Lecturer | The University of Adelaide | Advanced Topics in Aerospace Engineering |
2016 - 2018 | Teaching assistant | The University of Adelaide | Advanced PID Control |
2015 - 2016 | Teaching assistant, invited lecturer | The University of Adelaide | Dynamics and Control II (Auto Control II) |
2014 - 2016 | Teaching assistant | The University of Adelaide | Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics) |
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Co-Supervisor Ocean wave prediction using machine learning based methods Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tak Yin Pang 2022 Co-Supervisor Mathematical Theory of Controlling Coastlines While Generating Power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Amy-Rose Westcott 2021 Co-Supervisor Robust Power-Maximising Control of Wave Energy Converters Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yifeng Gu 2019 Co-Supervisor Dynamics and Control of a Hybrid Marine Platform: Wave Energy Converters Integrated to a FOWT Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Leandro da Silva 2018 Co-Supervisor Vibration Based Wave Energy Harvesters Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Ngan Bich Dinh Tran -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2019 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Performance Enhancement of Submerged Ocean Wave Energy Converter using Nonlinear Stiffness Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Benjamin Wilhelm Schubert
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