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.

My Research
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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
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
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

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

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)

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. DOI Scopus1
2022	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. DOI Scopus7 WoS7
2022	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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI Scopus2
2021	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. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2021	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. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2021	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. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2021	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. DOI Scopus1
2021	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. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2020	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. DOI Scopus14 WoS12
2020	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. DOI Scopus6 WoS6
2020	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. DOI Scopus7
2020	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. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2020	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. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2020	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. DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2020	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. DOI Scopus12 WoS6
2019	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. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2019	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. DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2019	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. DOI Scopus13 WoS7
2018	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. DOI Scopus26 WoS22
2017	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. DOI Scopus41 WoS36
2016	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. DOI Scopus22 WoS17

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2021	Skene, D. M., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. (2021). The potential for combining floating wind turbines with point absorbing wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 9 (pp. 10 pages). virtual online: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. DOI
2020	Tran, N., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ghayesh, M., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The effect of nonlinear pitch-surge coupling on the performance of multi-dof submerged wecs. In Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference Vol. 2020-October (pp. 144-151). online: ISOPE.
2020	Sergiienko, N. Y., Neshat, M., Silva, L. S. P. D., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). Design optimisation of a multi-mode wave energy converter.. In CoRR Vol. 9. Scopus6
2020	Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2020). Optimisation of large wave farms using a multi-strategy evolutionary framework. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'20) Vol. abs/2003.09594 (pp. 1150-1158). New York: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2020	Gu, Y., Ding, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2020). Power maximising control of heaving point absorber wave energy converters using quadratic damping force. In 14th ISOPE Pacific/Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium, PACOMS 2020 (pp. 330-334). online: ISOPE. Scopus1
2020	Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Pesce, C. P., & Morishita, H. M. (2020). Nonlinear analysis of an oscillating wave surge converter in frequency domain via statistical linearizatio. In Proceedings of the 2020 39th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 9. online: ASME. DOI Scopus1
2019	Ding, B., Wuillaume, P. -Y., Meng, F., Babarit, A., Schubert, B., Sergiienko, N., & Cazzolato, B. (2019). Comparison of wave-body interaction modelling methods for the study of reactively controlled point absorber wave energy converter. In The 34th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (pp. 1-4). online: CARMA.
2019	Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2019). A hybrid evolutionary algorithm framework for optimising power take off and placements of wave energy converters.. In GECCO (pp. 1293-1301).
2019	Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N., & Wagner, M. (2019). A hybrid evolutionary algorithm framework for optimising power take off and placements of wave energy converters. In GECCO '19 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Vol. abs/1904.07043 (pp. 1293-1301). New York: ACM. DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2018	Howard, C., Sergiienko, N., & Gallasch, G. (2018). Monitoring the age of vehicle shock absorbers. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Innovation for Land Power 2018 (ICSILP 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia: DST Group.
2018	Arbonès, D., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Krause, O., Igel, C., & Wagner, M. (2018). Sparse incomplete LU-decomposition for wave farm designs under realistic conditions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11101 (pp. 512-524). Coimbra, Portugal: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2018	Schubert, B., Meng, F., Sergiienko, N., Robertson, W., Cazzolato, B., Ghayesh, M., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2018). Pseudo-nonlinear hydrodynamic coefficients for modelling point absorber wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2018) (pp. 1-10). online: AWTEC.
2018	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Enhancing the relative capture width of submerged point absorbing wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference: AWTEC 2018 (pp. 1-10). online: AWTEC.
2017	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Bleckly, B., Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Power-take-off control in a scaled experiment of a point absorber wave energy converter. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Proceeding of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2017) (pp. 1-7). Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2017	Meng, F., Rafiee, A., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., Ding, B., Piper, J., . . . Qiuhao, H. (2017). Numerical simulation of a submerged spherical point absorber with asymmetric mass distribution. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Proceedings of 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2017. Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2017	Ding, B., da Silva, L., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Piper, J., Bennetts, L., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2017). Study of fully submerged point absorber wave energy converter - modelling, simulation and scaled experiment. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (IWWWFB) (pp. 1-4). Dalian, China: IWWWFB.
2017	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., Arjomandi, M., & Ding, B. (2017). Internal-model-based velocity tracking control of a submerged three-tether wave energy converter. In Proceeding of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (pp. 1126-1-1126-8). Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2016	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., & Hardy, P. (2016). Enhancing the relative capture width of submerged point absorbers. In 1st Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Workshop. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
2016	Wu, J., Shekh, S., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., Neumann, F., & Wagner, M. (2016). Fast and effective optimisation of arrays of submerged wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 1045-1052). Denver, CO: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus14 WoS11
2016	Arbonès, D., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., & Wagner, M. (2016). Fast and effective multi-objective optimisation of submerged wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Vol. 9921 (pp. 675-685). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Springer. DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2016	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., DIng, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). Three-tether axisymmetric wave energy converter: estimation of energy delivery. In Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2016) Vol. 1 (pp. 163-171). Marina Bay Sands, Singapore: Research Publishing Services. DOI
2015	Sergiienko, N., & Chen, L. (2015). Adaptive head stabilisation system for a snake-like robot. In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014 Vol. 02-04-December-2014 (pp. 1-7). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.. Scopus1

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
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
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
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)

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

Position: Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Phone: 83136465
Email: nataliia.sergiienko@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83134367
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Engineering South, floor 2
Org Unit: School of Mechanical Engineering