Dr. Donald Paterson
Assistant Professor
Office: +971 9 2089 591
Email: donald.paterson@sma.ac.ae
Journal Articles
Mauro, Francesco & Paterson, Donald & Vassalos, Dracos. (2024). Real-time estimation of the Potential Loss of Life in case of ship-to-ship collisions. Ocean Engineering. 298. 117238. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117238.
Mauro, Francesco & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald. (2023). Real-time flooding risk evaluation for ship-to-ship collisions based on first principles. Ocean Engineering. 281. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114847.
Mauro, Francesco & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2023). Evolution of ship damage stability assessment—Transitioning designers to direct numerical simulations. Ocean Engineering. 268. 113387. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113387.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2022). Process, methods and tools for ship damage stability and flooding risk assessment. Ocean Engineering. 266. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113062.
Mauro, Francesco & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2022). Exploring smart methodologies for critical flooding scenarios detection in the damage stability assessment of passenger ships. Ocean Engineering. 262. 112289. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112289.
Mauro, Francesco & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald. (2022). Critical damages identification in a multi-level damage stability assessment framework for passenger ships. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 228. 108802. 10.1016/j.ress.2022.108802.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Atzampos, Georgios & Assinder, Peter & Janicek, Adam. (2022). High-Expansion Foam: A Risk Control Option to Increase Passenger Ship Safety during Flooding. Applied Sciences. 12. 4949. 10.3390/app12104949.
Vassalos, Dracos & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Conti, Fabien. (2022). Probabilistic Damage Stability for Passenger Ships—The p-Factor Illusion and Reality. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10. 348. 10.3390/jmse10030348.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald. (2021). Towards unsinkable ships. Ocean Engineering. 232. 109096. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109096.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald. (2020). Reconfiguring Passenger Ship Internal Environment for Damage Stability Enhancement. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 8. 693. 10.3390/jmse8090693.
Paterson, Donald & Vassalos, Dracos & Atzampos, Georgios & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Luhmann, Henning. (2019). Impact of drafts on the damage survivability of cruise ships. Ocean Engineering. 187. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106136.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2019). Water, Water, Everywhere – Can high-expansion foam significantly reduce flooding risk? Marine technology. 2019. 44.
Conference papers
Vassalos, Dracos & Mauro, Francesco & Paterson, Donald & Salem, Ahmed. (2024). The importance of first-principles tools for safety enhancement in the design of passenger ships in the case of flooding events. International Marine Design Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10.59490/imdc.2024.909.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Salem, Ahmed. (2024). Modernisation of Domestic Ro-Ro Passenger Ships Operating in the Philippines. International Marine Design Conference. International Marine Design Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10.59490/imdc.2024.877.
Vassalos, Dracos & Luhmann, Henning & Cardinale, Mike & Hamann, Rainer & Papanikolaou, Apostolos & Paterson, Donald. (2022). A Multi-Level Approach for Flooding Risk Estimation and Assessment of Passenger Ships. SNAME 14th International Marine Design Conference, Texas USA, 10.5957/SMC-2022-008.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Papanikolaou, Apostolos. (2022). Impact of Life-Cycle Considerations on Internal Ship Layout for Damage Stability Protection. SNAME 14th International Marine Design Conference, Texas USA ,10.5957/IMDC-2022-292.
Vassalos, Dracos & Atzampos, Georgios & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco. (2022). Permeable Volume – The Forgotten “Galaxy” in Ship Design. SNAME 14th International Marine Design Conference, Texas USA ,10.5957/IMDC-2022-291.
Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Murphy, Alistair & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Michalec, Romain & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2022). A Multi-Level Approach to Flooding Risk Estimation of Passenger Ships. SNAME 14th International Marine Design Conference, Texas USA , 10.5957/IMDC-2022-329.
Bae, Hongseok & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2021). The Effectiveness of Crashworthiness as a Damage Stability Risk Control Option. 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Glasgow, Scotland
Ahmed, Mujeeb & Vassalos, Dracos & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Michalec, R. (2021). Flooding Risk Assessment for Passenger Ships. 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Glasgow, Scotland
Vassalos, Dracos & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Michalec, Romain. (2021). Evolutionary Developments of Ship Stability and Safety Measurement. 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Glasgow, Scotland
Vassalos, Dracos & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Michalec, Romain. (2021). Conception and Evolution of the Probabilistic Method for Damage Stability Assessment. 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Glasgow, Scotland
Vassalos, Dracos & Ahmed, Mujeeb & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Paterson, Donald & Mauro, Francesco & Michalec, Romain. (2021). Numerical Methods and Concepts for Ship Damage Stability and Flooding Risk Assessment. 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Glasgow, Scotland
Karolius, Kristian & Cichowicz, Jakub & Paterson, Donald & Vassalos, Dracos. (2020). Risk-Based, Sensor-fused Emergency Response in Flooding Casualties. International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Shanghai, China
Vassalos, D., Paterson, D. If you doubt the value of safety, try an accident, RINA, Royal Institution of Naval Architects - International Conference on Damaged Ship V, Papers, London, UK, 2020, pp. 65–69
Niotis, Athanasios & Vassalos, Dracos & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Cichowicz, Jakub & Atzampos, Georgios & Paterson, Donald. (2019). Verification of damage ship survivability with computational fluid dynamics. Proceedings of the 17th International Ship Stability Workshop, Helsinki, Finland
Vassalos, Dracos & Atzampos, Georgios & Paterson, Donald & Cichowicz, Jakub & Karolius, Kristian & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Konovessis, Dimitrios. (2019). Intact stability of passenger ships: safety issue or design concern? Neither!. Proceedings of the 17th International Ship Stability Workshop, Helsinki, Finland
Atzampos, Georgios & Vassalos, Dracos & Cichowicz, Jakub & Paterson, Donald & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2019). eSAFE - cruise ship survivability in waves. Proceedings of the 17th International Ship Stability Workshop, Helsinki, Finland
Paterson, Donald & Vassalos, Dracos & Atzampos, Georgios & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Cichowicz, Jakub & Luhmann, Henning. (2018). Rebooting SOLAS-Impact of Drafts on Damage Survivability of Cruise Ships. 13th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Kobe, Japan
Vassalos, Dracos & Atzampos, Georgios & Cichowicz, Jakub & Paterson, Donald & Karolius, Kristian & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Svensen, Tor & Douglas, Kevin & Luhmann, Henning. (2018). Life-Cycle Flooding Risk Management of Passenger Ships. 13th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, Kobe, Japan
Paterson, Donald & Atzampos, Georgios & Vassalos, Dracos & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2018). Impact Assessment of Wave Statistics on Ship Survivability. Proceedings of the 16th International Ship Stability Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia
Atzampos, Georgios & Paterson, Donald & Vassalos, Dracos & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2018). A New Era of Fishing Vessel Safety Emerges. 7th Transport Research Arena, Vienna, Austria
Vassalos, Dracos & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Paterson, Donald & Kanerva, Markku. (2016). Designing for Damage Stability beyond Design Level. 6th Conference on Design for Safety, Hamburg, Germany
Vassalos, Dracos & Boulougouris, Evangelos & Paterson, Donald. (2016). An alternative system for damage stability enhancement. 15th International Ship Stability Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden
Vassalos, D., Boulougouris, E., Paterson, D., Cullen, J., Kanerva, M., An alternative system for damage stability enhancement, RINA, Royal Institution of Naval Architects - Design and Operation of Ferries and Ro-Pax Vessels, London, UK, 2016
Book Chapters
Mauro, Francesco & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Bae, Hongseok. (2023). Shallow Water Resistance Estimation for Semi-Displacement Slender Ships. HSMV 2023 10.3233/PMST230009.
Mauro, Francesco & Vassalos, Dracos & Paterson, Donald & Bae, H. & Conti, F. (2023). Real-time collision damages for the flooding risk assessment of passenger ships. Advances in the Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (pp.173-181) 10.1201/9781003462170-23.
Atzampos, Georgios & Vassalos, Dracos & Cichowicz, Jakub & Paterson, Donald & Boulougouris, Evangelos. (2023). Cruise Ship Survivability in Waves. Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability (pp.589-606) 10.1007/978-3-031-16329-6_35.
Dr. Donald Paterson works as an Assistant Professor within the Marine Engineering Technology Department of Sharjah Maritime Academy. He previously held the position of Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde, where he engaged in research primarily relating to passenger vessel safety and risk-based design. During this time, he has worked on several large-scale projects, including the EU funded FLARE project, and the eSAFE project, funded by the Cruise Ship Safety Forum. He has also conducted research funded by the Scottish government looking into novel solutions to the problem of ship flooding, which led to the development of a patented design solution of which he is a co-inventor. In addition, he was a founding member of a university spin-out company, Maritime Safety Innovations Ltd., where he worked as a Naval Architect and conducted a wide range of projects for some the world’s largest ship builders and operators. Furthermore, he has worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank Group, where he was involved in conducting an FSA on domestic passenger vessel safety.
Dr Paterson holds a PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering which he received from the University of Strathclyde. He has published a number of indexed journal articles relating to ship safety, risk-based design, flooding simulations and ship stability. Furthermore, he has written a wide range of conference papers and presented at international conferences around the world.