Former Areas


Former Areas

Previous Research

These are application areas that the lab has previously worked in. The publications and software from these areas remain fully accessible and continue to be cited by the community.


Wave–Structure Interaction

Structural Response of Coastal Structures

Coastal and offshore structures experience complex, uncertain loading from waves, currents, and storm surges. We developed rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ) frameworks and graph neural operator (GNO) surrogates to characterise and predict structural response efficiently, without the need for thousands of expensive high-fidelity simulations.

  • Sensitivity analysis and statistical characterisation of structural response extremes
  • Surrogate-based UQ for wave–structure interaction
  • Graph neural operators for ill-posed inverse problems in wave loading
  • Handling irregular geometries and unstructured meshes
  • Validation against physical flume experiments
Luo et al. — Framework for uncertainty quantification of wave–structure interaction in a flume, Computational Particle Mechanics (arXiv 2025)
Luo, Fourtakas & Harish — Graph neural operators for ill-posed problems in wave–structure interaction (2026, SSRN preprint)
Wave–structure simulation