The UCD Wave Group has researchers from all over the world. Dr Leandro Fernández, who works on the RESOURCECODE project, gave a webinar in Spanish on Friday 12 June 2020, entitled "Datos meteorológicos y modelos de predicción global para zonas marítimas" and hosted by the School of Civil Engineering of Universidad Santo Tomás in Tunja, Colombia. The webinar is available on YouTube.

La UCD cuenta con un grupo de investigación dedicado al estudio de la dinámica de las olas oceánicas denominado 'Wave group', en el cual participan investigadores de diferentes países.  Uno de sus integrantes, el Dr Leandro Fernández, que actualmente se encuentra trabajando en el marco del proyecto RESOURCECODE, ha dado un Webinar en

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)

Home to the world’s largest internet company as well as other renowned tech giants, Seattle seems like the perfect place for a meeting on high performance computing. This year’s SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing & Scientific Computing - SIAM PP20 for short - took place right in the centre of the rainy city.

Hundreds of scientists from all over the world met to discuss emerging issues in scientific computing. From best practices in benchmarking to reducing communications between processors and code reproducibility, some of which have been topics of interest for many years as anyone learning about David Bailey’s “12 Ways to fool the masses” (1991) in an introductory course on computing can probably attest to.

Of particular interest to

On 2 October 2019, Professor Frédéric Dias gave an official presentation of the ERC project HIGHWAVE. There was a variety of guests including the UCD VP for Research, Orla Feely, the head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Brendan Murphy, and representatives of the following institutions: Met Eireann, Commissioners of Irish Lights, Royal Irish Academy, Irish Air Corps, Marine Institute, ICHEC, The Office of Public Works. Several members of UCD College of Engineering and Architecture, as well as the Wave Group led by Professor Dias, also attended.

The presentation gave a brief overview of previous projects that looked at rogue waves and coastal boulder transport and led to the main objectives