Previous Seminars 2022-2023
Title Speaker Date

Waves-sea ice interactions in the Antarctic marginal ice zone

Dr Alberto Alberello
External speaker
University of East Anglia
Wednesday, 15 November 2023   

The interaction between gravity currents and breaking internal waves

Professor Jeffrey Koseff  
External speaker
Stanford University
Wednesday, 01 November 2023   

uDALES v2.0: towards exascale simulation of urban airflow, heat transfer, and pollutant dispersion

Sam Owens
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 25 October 2023   
Processes that influence wave overtopping hazard and operational safety protocols      Dr Jennifer Brown
External speaker
National Oceanography Centre
Wednesday, 18 October 2023   
Offshore megastructures: hydrodynamics and impact processes in the marine environment      Mareile Wynants
Visiting PhD Candidate
Ludwig Franzius Institute of Hydraulic Estuarine and Coastal Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover
Thursday, 21 September 2023   
Tsunami-like bores generation in the laboratory    Dr Ignacio Barranco
External speaker
Coastal Maritime Engineer – HR Wallingford
Wednesday, 06 September 2023   
Modelling of mixing and entrainment in multi-layered submarine gravity currents    Lianzheng Cui
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 07 June 2023       
Numerical simulation of waves over coastal bathymetries  Umniya Al Khalili
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 31 May 2023       
Probabilistic methods for thermally stratified flows      Paul Mannix
Postdoctoral Researcher
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 19 April 2023      
Understanding the stochastic behaviour of CO2 concentration in a two-room case Chenduo Wang
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 15 March 2023     
The effect of heterogeneity on the urban surface-energy balance    Chris Wilson
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 22 February 2023      
Is it possible to map breaking ocean waves with a LIDAR?    Dr Thomas Kabel
External speaker
Aarhus University, Denmark
Wednesday, 08 February 2023      
Dispersion modelling at the Met Office    Ben Devenish
External speaker
MET office and Academic visitor at Imperial College London
Wednesday, 25 January 2023     
Direct numerical simulation of breaking waves using basilisk    Canwei Jin
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 18 January 2023    
Numerical modelling of the thermal effluents of power plants in a shallow, semi-enclosed bay    Nada Alsulaiman
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 07 December 2022   
Breaking waves: bubbles, droplets and turbulence   Dr Wouter Mostert
External speaker
Oxford University
Wednesday, 30 November 2022   
Locality of turbulence in stratified shear flows Dr Amir Atoufi
External speaker
Cambridge University
Wednesday, 23 November 2022  
Spatio-temporal characteristics of winter mixed layer turbulence in an energetic oceanic zone   Pauline Tedesco
Postdoctoral Researcher
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 16 November 2022 
A combined CFD-based genetic algorithm and human body thermoregulation model for designing the indoor thermal environment   Wei Liu 
External speaker
KTH
Wednesday, 09 November 2022
Wave radar measurement in different wave cases Xiwu Pang
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Marine energy - 20 years on John Griffith
External speaker

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
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Seminars 2021

Previous Seminars 2021-2022
TitleSpeakerDate
Wave propagation over sloping coastal bathymetry Vasilis Bellos
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Wave loading in the vicinity of the wave crest on fixed cylinders
Xinlu Lucy Mao
PhD Candidate 
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 06 July 2022
Integrating Oscillating water columns (OWC) into coastal defence structures Yusuf Almalki
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Impact loading estimation: Drop test Lei Dai
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Impact of climate variability and change on the sustainability of ocean wave energy and selection criteria for suitable locations and technologies      Dr Bahareh Kamranzad
Kyoto University
(visiting researcher at Imperial College London)
Wednesday, 08 June 2022   
Uncovering the criteria for ship-track formation using large-eddy simulations with explicit aerosol-cloud interactions     Rodrigo Ribeiro
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 25 May 2022   
Large-eddy simulation of outdoor flows in urban environments over a diurnal cycle      Sam Owens
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 18 May 2022   
Parameterising CO2 air-sea gas transfer with wave breaking energy dissipation rate, sea state, and wind speed      Dr Andrew Smith
Research Associate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 04 May 2022   
Virtual barriers for horizontal buoyancy-driven flows Dr Daria Frank
Research Associate
University of Cambridge
(Corpus Christi College)
Wednesday, 30 March 2022   
Researcher, academic and consultant: three careers in one    Jon Williams
Mott MacDonald
Wednesday, 23 March 2022   
Instantaneous dynamics of the fountain cap     Jingzi Huang
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 16 March 2022   
Weakly nonlinear theory for deterministic wave forecasting    Dr Raphael Stuhlmeier
Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences
University of Plymouth
Wednesday, 09 March 2022   
Stratified fluids: from the atmosphere and ocean to the building's interiors    Constanza Rodda
Research Assistant
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 02 March 2022  
Assessing exposure to infected breath in naturally ventilated classrooms    Carolanne Vouriot
Research Assistant
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 23 February 2022  
Lee wave generation from realistic topography in the Drake Passage   Lois Baker
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 16 February 2022 
The need of an efficient stochastic offshore design procedure   Steven (Huo) Chong
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 16 February 2022 
Increased Southern Ocean biomass with increased Diapycnal mixing Elizabeth Ellison
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 
The role of ocean interior turbulent mixing in climate change induced internal variability Nicholas Reynard
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 
Wave propagation in nearshore/coastal environment by coupled-mode models (problems and applications) Professor Kostas Belibassakis
School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Wednesday, 10 November 2021 
A model for mean winds in vertically heterogeneous urban canopies Dr Lewis Blunn
Postdoctoral Researcher
Reading University
Wednesday, 10 November 2021 
Urban trees: how do they affect air quality? Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk
Reader
Imperial College London 
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 
Seminars 2021-2022
Seminars 2021
Previous Seminars 2020-2021
TitleSpeakerDate
Simulating the diurnal cycle of the urban boundary layer Sam Owens
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Entrainment by highly forced turbulent fountain Jingzi Huang
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
The prediction of local wave-in-deck (WID) loads with a momentum-flux model Steven Huo
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 16 June 2021 
Hypersensitivity of Southern Ocean air-sea carbon fluxes to turbulent vertical mixing
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PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Shear-induced breaking of internal gravity waves Chris Howland
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Twente
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Nonlinear Waves: Modified NarrowBand (MNB) approximations vs Data M.A. Tayfun Wednesday, 26 May 2021 
Stability and transition of natural convection flow in differentially heated cavities Professor Steve Armfield
Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics 
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
University of Sydney
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Steep wave impact on a vertical circular cylinder Theodosis Tsaousis
PhD candidate
Department of Naval Architecture
National Technical University of Athens
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Numerical study of the natural ventilation driven by an occupant’s heat output considering the effect of radiation Pu Gong
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Why rogue waves occur atop depth transitions Dr Ton van den Bremen
Senior Research Fellow and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Oxford University
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Viscous stress measurements over wind-driven surface gravity waves Mark Buckley Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Goldilocks mixing by density stratified ocean turbulence Dr Ali Mashayek
Lecturer
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Surface reflection of bottom generated oceanic lee waves Lois Baker
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Modelling pollutant dispersion at the city and street scales. From wind tunnel experiments to complex network theory Dr Sofia Fellini
Ecole Central Lyon
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 
Estimating airborne infection risks in classrooms using CO2 measurements Carolanne Vouriot
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Timber as a sustainable material for modern construction Dr Henry Burridge
Lecturer
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Variable Performance Facades in Architecture Passive Thermal Actuators: Concepts and Applications Christopher Leung
University College London
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Marine and Coastal Risk Management: An industry Perspective Dr Mark Lawless
Director
JBA Consulting and JBA Risk Management
Wednesday, 17 February 2021 
Buildings rising from the ground Birgit Sutzl
PhD Candidate 
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Natural ventilation flows established by a localised heat source in a room with a doorway and a high-level vent Tom Higton
PhD Candidate
Imperial College London  
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Seminars 2021
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