Professor Alistair Borthwick
Chair in Applied Hydrodynamics
Research interests include coastal and offshore engineering, environmental fluid mechanics, water and sediment science, flood simulation, all material fluxes in large river basins, chaotic advection and mixing processes, water and wastewater treatment, and marine power resource assessment.
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Dr Geoffrey Bromiley
Senior Lecturer
I use large-volume high-pressure/temperature techniques to study the behaviour of materials under extreme conditions. My research adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, using rigorous investigation of the physics and chemistry of minerals to inform on large scale geological problems. Principally I am interested in processes occurring deep within planetary interiors, although I have research interests outside of the geosciences such as using high-pressure techniques to synthesise novel materials with useful physical properties.
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Dr Tom Bruce
Senior Lecturer
Research interests include wave overtopping, blockwork coastal structures, wave – structure interaction, wave hydrodynamics, flow measurement such as Particle Imaging Velocimetry
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Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
Chancellor’s Fellow
Research interests include treatment of persistent micro-pollutants, such as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), process sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA), eco-toxicity and estrogenicity measurements of water/wastewater environmental samples, electrochemical oxidation, disinfection technologies, industrial, agro-industrial and sewage wastewater treatment, photocatalytic oxidation and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for water/wastewater treatment.
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Dr Martin Crapper
Senior Lecturer
Fundamentally, I am interested in the design of civil engineering systems for people - systems that provide vital services such as water and sanitation, or protect people's homes and livelihoods, but are designed in a way that fits in with people's culture, expectations and ways of doing things. Within this overarching context, I research into fluid-particle flows, ranging from industrial processes to river bank protection and sanitation in international development.
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Dr David Forehand
Research Fellow
School of Engineering
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Dr Daniel Goldberg
Lecturer
My work is for the most part numerical and theoretical, as I try to understand the behaviour and dynamics of poorly understood glaciological processes (read: all glaciological processes) and the way they are represented in numerical models. Areas of interest are ice sheet-ocean interactions, inverse modelling of ice sheets, viscoelastic processes in ice sheets, and reducing the computational cost of ice sheet models without hurting their accuracy.
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Senior Honorary Professor Clive Greated
University of Edinburgh Honorary Staff
Key Research Areas: Laser Doppler Anemometry, Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, Speckle Photography and Particle Image Velocimetry techniques for the measurement of flow and sound fields. Fluid dynamic theory and measurement of turbulent flows and water waves and application to dispersion, forces on structures and wave energy devices.
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Professor David Ingram
Personal Chair - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Research interests include:
- Free surface flow modelling
- Development of time marching computational fluid dynamics solvers
- Violent wave interaction with coastal structures
- Simulation of wave and tidal current renewable energy devices
- Shallow water flow modelling
- The Cartesian cut cell method for boundary fitted mesh generation
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Dr Stuart King
Lecturer
My research interests cover a wide range of problems in stratified and gravity driven fluid flows. I am particularly interested in internal waves and gravity currents, and the instabilities they can generate leading to mixing. These are largely investigated using numerical simulations, and so I have interests in constructing novel simulation algorithms for fluid problems, and in data visualisation.
Dr James Maddison
Lecturer in Applied Maths
Research interests include geophysical fluid dynamics, particularly relating to ocean dynamics and ocean eddies, and numerical methods, particularly relating to high resolution ocean modelling. More recent interests include the application of automated code generation to the study of ocean inverse problems.
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Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow David McComb
Research interests include:
- Renormalization methods applied to the statistical closure problem of turbulence. The Local Energy Transfer (LET) theory of turbulence: 1974 - present time.
- Renormalization methods applied to the turbulence subgrid modelling problem. Iterative, conditional averaging: 1982 - present time.
- Resolution of long-standing issues in the phenomenology of turbulence: 2004 - present time.
- Turbulent drag reduction by additives and turbulent diffusion: 1970s - 1980s.
- Miscellaneous topics: operational control of numerical simulation of turbulence, hybrid large-eddy simulations, turbulence as a dynamical system, the physics of the DNS of isotropic turbulence.
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Professor John Moncrieff
Personal Chair in Micrometeorology
Research interests include land-atmosphere exchange of radiatively active gases (CO2 and CH4); transport and diffusion in the Planetary Boundary Layer. Ground-based remote sensing of greenhouse gases by LiDAR.
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Professor Jason Reese
Regius Chair of Engineering
My research activities focus on multiscale fluids engineering systems: nano- and microfluidics, interfacial and other non-continuum flows, high-speed (rarefied) aerodynamics, and rapid granular/gas flows. Multiscale and multiphysics dynamics is characteristic of these areas of emerging technological importance, but affect the overall behaviour of the fluid flows in poorly-understood ways. This makes their simulation, design and control extremely difficult. The dynamics of the constituent fluid particles or molecules is key to understanding the overall flow behaviour. I am investigating new ways of modelling and simulating these flows from both molecular and hydrodynamic viewpoints. In particular, developing theoretical insight into the underlying non-continuum physics, and numerical simulation tools ranging from compressible fluid codes for extended hydrodynamic models through to highly-parallel molecular dynamics and DSMC codes. All of these numerical tools are released open-source in the OpenFOAM software.
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Professor Noel Smyth
Personal Chair in Nonlinear Waves
Morning glory cloud over the Gulf of Carpentaria coast of Queensland, Australia.
Professor Smyth's interest lie in geophysical wave motion, particularly solitary waves and undular bores in the ocean and atmosphere. He has used nonlinear wave equations such as the Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Ono equations to model undular bores in the internal diurnal tide and in the atmosphere, for example morning glory clouds, and compared results with observational data. He is also interested in the waves generated by the interaction of fluid flow with topography, particularly transcritical flow.
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Professor Simon Tett
Chair in Earth System Dynamics
At the heart of my research is the quantitative analysis of models and observations of climate change in order to constrain the future. The approach I am currently working on is to to generate "plausible" climate models through careful comparison of simulations and observations and use the properties of these plausible models to reason about future climate change. I am interested in extreme climate events and their causes for which I believe that high resolution modelling is the way forward. I also aim to improve my knowledge and understanding of the carbon cycle and try and develop ways of constraining its possible futures.
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Professor Jacques Vanneste
Personal Chair in Fluid Dynamics
A professor in the Applied Mathematics group at the University of Edinburgh, current research centres on the application of mathematics to fluid dynamics, in particular to the dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans.
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Dr Vengatesan Venugopal
Reader
Current research interests include coastal defense, semi-circular breakwater, wave device array interactions, hydrodynamic forces and device motion response calculations, wave resources prediction and modelling, and numerical modelling.
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Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Lecturer
My research is in applied fluid dynamics and focuses on the viscous flow around immersed bodies, for example, the behaviour of the air around the sail of a yacht, and the water around the blade of a tidal turbine. I am particularly interested in those conditions where the nature of the onset flow is turbulent and the forces on the body are due to the formation of vortical flow structures.
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