We apply multiphysics modeling, physics‑based machine learning, and digital twin technologies to optimize stealth, efficiency, and Arctic performance in complex vessels and platforms.
These tools enable intelligent operation, predictive maintenance, and life‑cycle management, supporting safer, more sustainable, and high‑performing marine systems.
Computational Multiphysics Laboratory
Intelligent Coastal, Oceans and Naval Systems (ICONS) - Research Overview
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent and Green Marine Vessels
High-fidelity multiphysics and multiphase simulations, fluid-structure interactions, data-driven computing, and digital twin development for marine vessels
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Coastal engineering and hazard management, nature-based coastal protection solutions, climate adaptation for Arctic shorelines, compound flood risk assessment, sustainable coastal infrastructure design
Professor, Joint Position Between Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mathematics
Fluid mechanics, particle-laden flows, non Newtonian flows, heat and mass transfer, numerical simulation, high performance computing, multi-scale modelling, machine learning
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Associate Head of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity & Engagement
Algorithm development for computational aerodynamics
Associate Professor, Mechanical, UBCO School of Engineering
Computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery, multiphase turbulent flows, hydrogen, wind energy, biofluid mechanics
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Multiphase and density stratified fluid mechanics, fiber suspensions, renewable energy, hydrodynamic instability, mixing
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Environmental fluid mechanics, geophysical fluid dynamics, coastal engineering and oceanograph, biological fluid mechanics, fate and transport of contaminants, water wave mechanics; sediment transport, marine debris and plastic pollution, particle-laden flows, flow-biota interactions, ice-ocean interactions, coastal ecosystem management
January 8, 2026
January 8, 2026
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