Research
Our research involves fluid mechanics and engineering systems that are associated with the fluid environment. Click on any of the following links to read about some of our current and recent research projects.
Current Projects
- Investigations Of Breaking Waves & Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Wave Run-Up Using Micro & Mesoscopic Approaches
- Free-Surface & Smart Fluids Behaviour In Tuned Liquid Dampers
- Aeroelastic Modelling
- Renewable Wind & Wave Energy
Recent Projects
- Integrated prediction of wave-induced liquefaction for stable breakwater heads
- Energy from offshore wind: Stability of offshore mono-piles in shallow water
- Coupled models for waves, a porous seabed and breakwater interactions
- Sustainable energy research: offshore wind energy
- Wave-induced transport and transformation of pollutants in coastal sediments
- Wave-induced liquefaction around the head of a breakwater
- Coupling models for ocean waves, groundwater and porous seabeds interaction
- Modelling of sand wave migration and its interaction with pipelines
- Free surface flow in porous media
- Port Stephens flood tide Delta: Shoreline management issues
- Underwater Acoustic Imaging: One-Bit Digitisation and Added Noise
- Attenuation of ultrasound in mud at large amplitudes
- Underwater Acoustic Imaging: Image due to a Specular Reflector
- Acoustics for Detection of Artefacts in the Sea Bed
- The interaction of surface waves with arrays of non-circular vertical structures cylinders
- The effect of inertia in oscillating wave energy devices
- Wave momentum flux in the presence friction, currents and wind
- Unsteady convection in semi-bounded domains
- Experiments on internal hydraulic control in layered flows with friction
- Extreme winds during thunderstorms
- Measurements of wind induced internal pressures in buildings
- Natural ventilation in apartment buildings
- Tall building response to wind loading
- Torsional wind loading on buildings and load combinations
- Vertical axis turbines
- Wind loading on telecommunication towers