Our Team in Envrionmental Fluids

Please direct general enquiries in the field of Environmental Fluids to Dr Dong-Sheng Jeng.

• Prof Ian Jones has interests in Greenhouse gas mitigation; ocean wave predictions; satellite measurement technologies; engineering innovation; environmental loading on offshore structures; underwater robotics; underwater acoustic imaging.
• Dr Dong-Sheng Jeng is a “blue sky” researcher. He is interested in application of mathematics in engineering and science issues. His current research includes fluid-solid-structure interaction, porous flow, coastal modeling, ocean wave theories, groundwater hydrodynamics and artificial neural network models.
• Dr Graeme Wood has interests in Wind engineering - wind effects on buildings and structures; structural dynamic; vibration control; full-scale and wind tunnel measurement of wind effects; thunderstorm downdraft simulation.
• Dr Tim Finnigan is interested in environmental fluid mechanics and marine renewable energy. His research includes work on natural convection, internal hydraulics, ocean wave energy and tidal current energy conversion.
• A/Prof Phil Mulhearn researches Satellite remote sensing of oceans; Acoustic sensing of seabed properties; Uses of penetrometers for measuring seabed strength; processes by which objects become buried in the seabed.
• Dr Dick Watkins has interests in Fluids engineering; wind energy; water energy; wind tunnel testing; wind effects of and on buildings; fluid flows in pipes and channels.
• Dr David Blair is researching underwater acoustic imaging.
• Dr Jian Li is an applied mathematician. His research includes numerical solutions of Kdv equation, Navier-Stoke equation, and Fourier transformation. He is currently working on the development of 3-D model for fluid-seabed-structure interaction.
• Dr Frank Lu is an expert of porous flow. His research includes soil-structure interaction, poro-mechanics, wave field simulation for viscoelastic media or porous media, Static and dynamic crack problems. He is currently working on the development of Lattice Boltzmann model for fluid-solid-structure interaction.

• Sally Williams is a PhD student studying "Modelling of wave-induced transport and transformation of pollutants in coastal sediments"
• Matt Mason is researching "Thunderstorm Downdrafts" for his PhD.
• Alan Moore's PhD topic is "Wind Effects on Tall Buildings".
• Andrew Caska is just starting his PhD in the area of Environmental Fluids.