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Nai-Kuang Liang

Professor Emeritus
Retired Faculty
  • Field

    Ocean Engineering, Wind wave, Renewable energy

  • Experiences

    • Director General, Institute of Harbor & Marine Technology
    • 1996/08-2002/07 Director,  Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
    • 1973 Dr.-Ing., Hyraulic Engineering, Hannover Technical University, Germany
    • 1967 M.S., Hyraulic Engineering, National Cheng Kung University
    • 1964 B.S., Hyraulic Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

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Research Achievements/Publications:

A. Journal Papers

  • Yao, Z. Z., W. Fan, C. Xiao, Y. F. Qiang, Y. W. Pan, N. K. Liang and Y. Chen (2019) Theoretical and experimental study on influence factors of bubble-entrained plume in air-injection artificial upwelling. Ocean Engineering, 192, 106572.
  • Liang, N. K. (2012) The freak wave potential of typhoon swell. Journal of Marine Science and Technology-Taiwan, 20(4), 467-471.
  • Liang, N. K. (2007) The freak wave mystery – A new hypothesis for its occurrence. Journal of Marine Science and Technology-Taiwan, 15(3), 241-246.
  • Liang, N. K. (2006) A reflection of pneumatic breakwater. Journal of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 6(1), 85-99.
  • Liang, N. K. and H. K. Peng (2005) A study of air-lift artificial upwelling. Ocean Engineering, 32, 731-745.
  • Liang, N. K., J. S. Huang and C. F. Li (2004) A study of spar buoy floating breakwater. Ocean Engineering, 31, 43-60.
  • Liang, N. K. (2003) The typhoon swell Doppler effect. Ocean Engineering, 30, 1107-1115.
  • Lin, W. C. and N. K. Liang (2000) A study on typhoon swell decay by adverse wind. Acta Oceanographica Taiwanica, 38, 45-59.

B. Conference Papers

  • Liang, N. K. (2004) Evidences of typhoon/hurricane swell Doppler effect. Proceedings, Second Sino-German Joint Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Engineering, October 11-20, 2004, Nanjing, China.
  • Liang, N. K. and H. K. Peng (2003) A preliminary study on air-lift artificial upwelling induced by air-bubble screen. Proceedings of the Fifth (2003) Ocean Mining Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, Sept. 15-19, 2003, pp. 31-36.
  • Huang, J. S. and N. K. Liang (2002) An experimental study of wave sheltering through multi-layer vertical cylinder fence. Fierst German-Chinese Joint Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Engineering, April 10-12, 2002, pp. 237-244.
  • Lin, W. C. and N. K. Liang (2001) A proposed alarm system for typhoon swell in Taiwan. The Sixth Workshop on Ocean Models for AOEC Region (WOM-6), pp.3-1-4-14.

C. Patent

  • 半封閉圓管組抗波箱網 中華民國Offshore Cage using Semi-closed Pipe System, Rep. of China
  • 半封閉圓管群浮式防波 中華民國Semi-closed Pipe Floating Breakwater, Rep. of China