Towards a Sustainable Coast • A storm packing winds of up to 130 miles per hour has hit Japan. Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, Japan. A powerful typhoon is bearing down on Japan's tsunami- ravaged northeastern coast, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people. Typhoon Roke hits Japan Coastal Flood at Brighton (Jan 2007)
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Towards a Sustainable Coast
• A storm packing winds of up to 130 miles per hour has hit Japan. Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, Japan. A powerful typhoon is bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people.
Typhoon Roke hits Japan
Coastal Flood at Brighton (Jan 2007)
Fundamental understanding of physical processes relevant to practical coastal and offshore engineering and design problems
Research Goal
Turbulent boundary layers Wave, tide and current hydrodynamics in the coastal region Coastal flooding and erosion during extreme events Marine renewable energy Wave and fluid interactions with fixed and floating structure Sediment transport Air-sea interactions
Research Interest
Ensemble Prediction of Inundation Risk and Uncertainty arising from Scour (EPIRUS) Research teams:
University of Plymouth (Leader) University of Swansea University of Bristol Collaborators: Proudman Oceanographic Laboratories Halcrow Group New Forest District Council
Principle Investigator : Qingping Zou Yongping Chen, Ian Cluckie, Dawei Han,
Richard Hewston, Xin Lv, Shunqi Pan, Zhong Peng, Dominic Reeve
The energy transmission percentage was set as 75% which represents an array of densely spaced, high-efficiency WECs
Effects of Wave Farm on Sediment Transport
Currents (m/s)
EU project: Loads on entrance platforms for offshore wind turbines
• Loads on entrance platforms for offshore wind
turbinesUK Wave Energy
Coastal flooding and erosion due to extreme event
Marine renewable energy devices and their environmental impacts
Flow and wave interactions with fixed and floating offshore structures and adjacent sea bed
Interactions of coastal ocean with adjacent river estuary
Transport of biological and geochemical material by waves and currents and turbulence in the coastal region
Impacts of climate change on coastal storm risk and mitigation
Future Vision and Plan
“The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this space of the meeting of land and water…. Each time that I enter it, I gain some new awareness of its beauty and its deeper meanings” by Rachel Carson (1959)