The wave group are delighted to announce some newly published work in the journal Geosciences, which is part of a special issue: Advances in tsunami science towards tsunami threat reduction. The work focuses on the tsunami threat posed by the Lisbon 1755 earthquake event on the Irish coastline and was carried out in collaboration with Brian McConnell of Geological Survey Ireland. 

As there is no general consensus on the earthquake source parameters for the Lisbon event, multiple sources introduced in the literature are investigated. The tsunami hazard associated with the event is captured on three gradated levels. With the internally developed massively parallel tsunami code, Volna-OP2, used to simulate the resultant tsunami waves. Regional faster than real time simulations for the

Prof. Dias will co-chair the European Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence Conference (EFMTC2021) at ETH Zurich from June 20-24, 2021.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the EUROMECH council decided to combine the 13th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC13) and the 18th European Turbulence Conference (ETC18). ETC18 was originally supposed to take place in Dublin in August 2021.

This conference will bring together scientists from all fields of Fluid Dynamics.

For further information please visit the EFMTC2021 homepage http://www.efmtc2021.ethz.ch/.

The Wave Group projects involve a lot of numerical simulations, dealing in particular with extreme sea states, using nonlinear wave propagation models. ICHEC, the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, provides core-hours to three kinds of projects. Class A projects are intended for consortia concerned with high impact problems. Prof. Dias was successful with his Class A application. The project has been given 5M core-hours. It will start on 1 June 2020 and will last for a couple of years. 

In these dark times, when good news is scarce, science always pushes the boundaries and offers hope…

The world record set by Engineer Arnaud Disant and his team in 2018 has now been officially verified: offshore WiFi transmission of 19.4 nautical miles off Cork harbour, “The longest ever attempted transmission between a vessel offshore and a lighthouse on a distant shore, without using satellite communication of cellular data like 3G or 4G…”

I am proud to have been a witness to the achievement of this record. A scientific paper will soon be published in the MTS (Marine Technology Society) Journal. 

Congratulations to Arnaud! Your record is fantastic news for marine data collection.

Professor Frederic Dias (UCD)