NEW from the #fluidmechanics blog: Making Waves in the Lab, from Dr Tom Crawford. When @SauretLab at @UCSantaBarbara and his colleagues at FAST laboratory tried to create one in a lab setting, it would be fair to say they had their work cut out. #waves ow.ly/VvhL50FoZy0

UG student talks UCD Maths and Stats tomorrow from 10am ranging from linear algebra to potential flows to vaccination roll out strategies 🧮🧑‍💻 Details below, no registration required

The folklores that led us to study these large boulders in Kiribati hakaimagazine.com/news/rounding-… Hakai Magazine

☕️Coffee drinks can feature fascinating fluid mechanics phenomena: multiphase flow, foam dynamics, instability, etc. What is your favorite coffee-related flow? #InternationalCoffeeDay Flow Journal Journal of Fluid Mechanics

#Erosion is a threat to #coastal areas all over the world. On the SIAM News blog, Luka Schlegel and Volker Schulz use numerical #simulations to find the optimal shapes for wave-breaking obstacles that help mitigate erosion's effects. Learn more: sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/s…

We're delighted to announce that next Thursday, 25th November we will have our first in-person event of 2021! Speaking at this seminar will be Dr @NCahill_Stat from Maynooth University and Petr Vacek, a visiting PhD student from Trinity College Dublin. Time: 6-7pm. Loc: Salmon Lecture Theater, TCD

📢Calling all Early Career Academics in NUI institutions! The #NUIAwards22 Grant Scheme for ECAs is now open for applications. Purpose: Conference/symposium Value: €2-5k Deadline: 7 January 2022 Info: nui.ie/awards/PostDoc… UCC Ireland University College Dublin @NUIGalway Maynooth University RCSI

Well done to all the participants who braved the wind and rain to take part in this morning's Gorey parkrun 🏃🏃 It was a pleasure to start the race alongside my colleague Malcolm Byrne 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Thanks to all the volunteers who deliver parkrun Ireland to so many communities nationwide

We're delighted to announce our next in-person social event! On Thurs March 3rd at 6.30pm in UCD, we are proud to welcome Kirk Soodhalter from Trinity College Dublin, followed by (free!) pizza in the UCD Clubhouse Bar. All welcome! Sign up here: sites.google.com/view/siam-ima-…

First trial hybrid coffee morning this morning. Thanks to James Herterich for a great presentation on coastal megaboulders and Fiachra O'Loughlin for patient chairing while we figured out the technical side of things!

At home, do-it-yourself fluid mechanics doi.org/gp4wx7 phys.org/news/2022-05-h…

Our article (w/ PJ Nee) in Sports Engineering on cycling has been published. The dynamics are described within the frame of an arbitrary 3D route with pedalling and braking. Sports Engineering 🏄💻 ISEA UCD Research UCD Earth Institute UCD Maths and Stats link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I am happy to announce the publication of my most important research paper so far, in my opinion. See below and, if you are interested, download it (it's open access). doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2…

Congratulations! Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji & Atilla Incecik on winning the The 2022 Ig Nobel Physics Prize for the article WAVE-RIDING AND WAVE-PASSING BY DUCKLINGS IN FORMATION SWIMMING Read the #openaccess article in #JFM ☑️ow.ly/yqg450KO07M

As part of the UCD Maths and Stats's Summer Undergraduate Research Projects program in 2023, we will have a session of talks on Thursday, August 3 starting at 10:30am in the Science Hub, room H0.12. maths.ucd.ie/~osburn/usrp20…