28. March 2024
Cathal won a Royal Society International Exchange grant entitled Experimental and modelling investigation of plastic transport on a mild-slope beach with and without structure (in collaboration with Prof Qingping Zou) .
14. February 2024
Cathal just published a paper on wave energy conversion in Energies.
21. September 2023
Cathal has just been named Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Science KE Champion with the launch event in Birmingham in December.
13. September 2023
Cathal’s experimental work on ammonite fossils (in collaboration with Prof Marc Desmulliez and VOILAb) will be presented at the International Symposium on Palaeo-bioinspiration (PALBINS).
24. August 2023
Benjian’s first paper in the Contraflow Group (in collaboration with Qingping Zou) that considers the coupled stability of offshore wind monopile foundations and submarine slopes under periodic loads has just been accepted in Applied Ocean Research – congrats Benjian!
17. July 2023
Cathal is chairing the 171st European Study Group with Industry all this week at Old College in Edinburgh (ESGI 171).
30. May 2023
Nianfan Zhang joins today as a CSC visiting scholar from the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He will work on wave slamming in OpenFOAM – welcome Nianfan!
24. May 2023
Mary will give an oral presentation and Chris a poster presentation at the 36th Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting at the University of Strathclyde (SFMM 36). Mary will talk about microplastic transport in the ocean and Chris will present on Helmholtz resonance in wave energy converters. Congrats Mary and Chris!
17. April 2023
Cathal is chairing the 2023 ICMS/MAC-MIGS Modelling Camp (link).
17. October 2022
New opportunity to join the Contraflow Group in 2023 as a PhD student funded by EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership at University of Edinburgh.
1. September 2022
Mary has joined the contraflow group. Mary joins us from the MAC-MIGS CDT; her PhD project will focus on the Stokes drift of biofouled microplastics, and how it affects their ultimate fate. Welcome Mary!
7. May 2022
Dr Daniele Certini successfully defended his viva (his PhD thesis can be found here link although it is embargoed until Feb 2024).
1. May 2022
Chris has joined the contraflow group to do a PhD working on resonant wave energy systems, supported by a James Watt scholarship and in collaboration with Mocean Energy – welcome Chris!
23. January 2022
Cathal’s discovery of the dandelion’s separated vortex ring was mentioned by Sir David Attenborough in Episode 3 of BBC’s The Green Planet entitled “Seasonal Worlds”.
14. December 2021
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on the mathematical modelling of wave energy converters. It will combine machine learning and computational fluid dynamics in collaboration with Dr Gabriel Scarlett (Mocean Energy) and Dr Christian Windt. To apply, please visit the Heriot-Watt website. The application deadline is 31 Jan 2022.
22. November 2021
Our new journal article on the Helmholtz resonance of wave energy converters has been published in the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, in collaboration with Dr Gabriel Scarlett (Mocean Energy) and Dr Christian Windt.
19. November 2021
We will be recruiting a PhD student to work on the fate of biofouled microplastics in the ocean to start in 2022. To apply, please visit the IAPETUS website. The deadline for application is 7th January 2022 at 5pm UK time. If you are shortlisted, you will be contacted by 8th February 2022 and invited to put in a full application into the group.
1. October 2021
Ibrahim will join us in September to do a PhD on the dispersion of droplets, supported by a PTDF scholarship – welcome Ibrahim!
30. September 2021
Cathal gave a public lecture entitled “How Mathematics Uncovered the Dandelion’s Halo” for Maths Week Scotland; you can catch a recording of it here.
1. September 2021
Benjian will join us in September to do a PhD on renewable energy, supported by a CSC scholarship – welcome Benjian!
10. June 2021
Cathal won the PRIME Pioneer Award for his work on COVID-19.
24. May 2021
Cathal was invited to give a talk at the 7th Micro and Nano Flows Conference 2021 for his work on droplet dispersion.
15. February 2021
Cathal won a small grant from CENSIS to develop sensors capable of detecting aersol in dentist surgeries.
12. February 2021
Cathal was nominated for a Royal Society of Edinburgh Early Career Medal for his work on COVID-19.
12. December 2020
Cathal was nominated for the Felix-Klein medal for his work with industry.
10. July 2020
Cathal’s article in Physics of Fluids was selected as a feature.
21. June 2020
Cathal was interviewed on MSNBC Nightly News for his work on covid-19.
3. March 2020
Cathal’s work on dandelions made the front cover of SIAM news.
1. August 2019
Cathal has started the Contraflow group at Heriot-Watt University.