Professor Jun Zang
Jun’s research concerns the hydrodynamic loadings on urban, coastal and offshore structures and the impact of extreme events on such structures. Her research group develops and uses advanced CFD tools in modelling urban flooding, coastal flooding, fluid structure interactions, performance and survivability analysis of marine renewable energy devices (including all wave, tidal and offshore wind energy) and violent wave impact on coastal and offshore structures.
LINKS:
Jun Zang on University of Bath Research Portal
Dr Nick McCullen
Nick has a background in Physics, specialising in nonlinear dynamics and coupled oscillators and looking at everything from synchronisation of chaotic signals to modelling diffusion of innovation via social networks. His research includes numerical and experimental work on coupled nonlinear electronic oscillators, with applications from neuroscience to models of electricity micro-grids. He is also interested in modelling urban systems (cities, buildings, transport) using complex systems models, including networks and dynamical systems, and particularly how interactions between the various components, such as buildings, technology, the environment, and people, result in the systematic functioning and energy consumption.
University of Bath Research Portal
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/nick-mccullen
Dr Thomas Kjeldsen
Thomas’s research focuses mainly on the use of mathematical and statistical modelling of environmental and hydrological systems, with emphasis on predicting extreme hydrological events such as floods and droughts. He has worked on developing the UK industry standard methods for flood frequency analysis and aims to understand the effect of environmental change (climate change, urbanisation, land management) on water resource systems. He also conducts risk and uncertainty analysis of extreme events.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/thomas-kjeldsen
Professor Tim Ibell
Tim’s research focuses on the appropriate design, analysis and construction techniques associated with concrete structures. An area requiring significant work to enhance the UK’s sustainability credentials is loading on structures. Structural engineers over-specify loadings, routinely, adding greatly to building costs. Appropriate risk-based mathematical modelling of loading in, on and around buildings is required.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-ibell
Professor David Coley
David’s work includes the prediction of future extreme weather and the performance of strange architectures in buildings, for example beams arranged according to random walks.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/david-coley
Dr Kemi Adeyeye
Kemi’s research focuses on finding collaborative, sustainable solutions to water and energy resource issues, addressing sustainability, resource use efficiency, and resilience of the built environment.
University of Bath Research Portal:
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/kemi-adeyeye
Dr Chris Blenkinsopp
Chris’s research interests are predominantly in the field of coastal science and engineering. In particular Chris is interested in the dynamic equilibrium of natural beaches, wave breaking and wave transformation in the nearshore, sediment transport in the surf and swash zone, extreme wave and water level prediction, the response of sandy coastlines to sea-level rise, storm erosion and recovery of beaches and wave energy converters.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/chris-blenkinsopp