New understanding of unusually large ocean waves could help inform the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures.
So-called rogue waves – which are exceptionally powerful and dangerous – can be exacerbated when they are produced by two sets of waves crossing at a particular angle, a study has found.
Fahd Alsaleem, a Saudi PhD candidate who is supervised by Prof. John Thompson and co-supervised by Dr. David Laurenson, has won a prize for giving one of the best two presentations in the festival of the radio science (FRSci-2017).
The Discipline of Chemical Engineering celebrated the achievement of our first cohort of MSc graduands, who received their degree in Advanced Chemical Engineering during the School of Engineering Graduation Ceremony on November 30, 2017, at the recently renovated McEwan Hall.
Dr Martin Sweatman from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering has discovered a simple physical principle that might explain how life started on Earth.
Prof Harald Haas and Prof John Thompson, both members of the Institute for Digital Communications at the School of Engineering, have been listed by Thomson Reuters as Highly Cited Researchers in 2017