DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2025
08.30-09.00
09.00-09.20
Arrival and Registration at RSE
Welcome and opening remarks
09.20-10.30
Session 1 – Chair: John Grue
09.20-09.40
Kai Håkon Christensen, Atle Jensen, Jan Erik H. Weber, Maxime Leclerc & Kjersti Stangeland
Laboratory investigations of wave-induced flow near a permeable bottom.
09.40-10.00
Masoud Hayatdavoodi
Nonlinear wave interactions with muddy seafloors in coastal areas
10.00-10.20
Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen, Priyanka Gautam, Amélie Ferran, Olav Romcke & R. Jason Hearst
Transport and mixing of particles and scalars in waves and turbulence: recent results from experiments
10.20-10.30
Discussion
10.30-11.00
BREAK
11.00-12.30
Session 2 – Chair: Henrik Kalisch
11.00-11.20
J. N. Steer, M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott, T. A. A. Adcock, J-R. Bidlot, F. Dias, Y. Zheng, Z. Lin, W. Zhao & Ton S. van den Bremer
Wave breaking probability in directional sea states
11.20-11.40
Frédéric Dias, A. Mansar, M. Turner & T. Bridges
A theory for three-dimensional wave breaking based on crest instability of short-crested Stokes waves
11.40-12.00
Karsten Trulsen, Carl Trygve Stansberg & Kristian B. Dysthe
Experimental evidence of transversal modulation and frequency downshift of uniform waves in a long tank
12.00-12.20
Atle Jensen & Øystein Lande
Numerical – and physical wave tank
12.20-12.30
Discussion
12.30-13.30
LUNCH
13.30-15.00
Session 3 – Chair: David Dritschel
13.30-13.50
Magda Carr, Samuel Hartharn-Evans, Jack Smith & Marek Stastna
Shoaling of internal solitary waves over rough sloping topography
13.50-14.10
Marek Stastna & Chichi Zhou
Direct numerical simulations of subsurface cores in internal solitary-like waves with background shear
14.10-14.30
Peter Diamessis, Tilemachos Bolioudakis, Theodoros Diamantopoulos, Ren-Chieh Lien, Kevin Lamb, Gustavo Rivera-Rosario & Greg Thomsen
Some aspects of turbulence formation and development in convectively unstable shoaling internal solitary waves with subsurface recirculating cores
14.30-1450
Ricardo Lopes-Barros, A. Doak, W. Choi & P. A. Milewski
A classification of mode-1 internal solitary waves in a three-layer fluid
14.50-15.00
Discussion
15.00-15.20
BREAK
15.20-16.50
Session 4 – Chair: David McKee
15.20-15.40
Martin Ludvigsen
Autonomous underwater robotic operations for resident and collaborating vehicles
15.40-16.00
Ignacio Carlucho
Autonomous underwater robots for inspection in offshore renewable energy
16.00-16.20
Alexander Phillips
The role of long range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for oceanographic data gathering
16.20-16.40
Lewis Drysdale, Neil J. Fraser & Mark E. Inall
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and gliders for multi-scale ocean science in the Polar and North Atlantic oceans
16.40-16.50
Discussion
16.50-17.10
BREAK
17.10-18.40
Session 5 – Chair: Karsten Trulsen
17.10-17.30
Henrik Kalisch, Maria Bjørnestad, Marc Buckley, Ruben Carrasco-Alvarez, Marius Cysewski, Sébastien Fromenteau, Hege G. Frøysa, Karoline Holand, Jochen Horstmann, Michael Streβer & Rosa Maria Vargas-Magana
Lagrangian dynamics in ocean waves
17.30-17.50
Karen Samseth, Karsten Trulsen & Atle Jensen
Experimental measurements of disturbances on a free surface vortex
17.50-18.10
Jan Erik Weber
Eulerian contributions to the particle velocity in Stokes and Gerstner waves
18.10-18.30
Zhiling Liao & Qingping Zou
Mass transport induced by infragravity wave: Theory and numerical validation
18.30-18.40
Discussion
18.40-19.10
19.10-19.45
19.45-22.00
BREAK
Reception (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
SYMPOSIUM DINNER (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
DAY 2: THURSDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2025
09.00-10.55
Session 6 – Chair: Mark Inall
09.00-09.20
Göran Broström, Kai Christensen, Jan Erik Weber, Morten Køltzow, Rolf H Myhre
Offshore wind farms, vorticity and upwelling
09.20-09.40
Jeffrey R. Carpenter, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Travis Miles, Glen Gawarkiewicz & Josh T. Kohut
Parameterising ocean mixing by turbine foundation wakes
09.40-10.00
Tom Rippeth & Ben Lincoln
Diapcynal mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas in a changing world
10.00-10.20
David McKee & Rodney Forster
Monopile-induced turbulence and sediment redistribution form visible wakes in offshore wind farms
10.20-10.40
Michela De Dominicis, J. Jardine, R. O’Hara Murray, A. Zampollo, W. MacDonald, C. Williams, J. Wihsgott, A. Gallego, M. Palmer & B. Scott
How offshore wind farms can stir the sea: North Sea responses to wind energy and climate change
10.40-10.55
Discussion
10.55-11.25
BREAK
11.25-12.55
Session 7 – Chair: Atle Jensen
11.25-11.45
Anirban Guha
Long interfacial wave induced short wave instabilities
11.45-12.05
Rob A.Hall, Peter M. F. Sheehan & Veerle A. I. Huvenne
Intensified internal tides in Celtic Sea submarine canyons observed by a deep ocean glider
12.05-12.25
Mark Inall, Neil Fraser & Arild Sundfjord
Glacial ice front calving: IW generation and melting
12.25-12.45
John Grue
Characterization of shear instability in long and strong internal waves measured by CTD devices
12.45-12.55
Discussion
12.55-13.55
LUNCH
13.55-15.50
Session 8 – Chair: Kai Håkon Christensen
13.55-14.15
Philip Gillibrand & Stuart Anderson
Some observations and simulations of horizontal dispersion in Scottish inshore waters in relation to aquaculture discharges.
14.15-14.35
Josh Shelton
Subharmonic instability of large-amplitude gravity-capillary waves
14.35-14.55
Neil Fraser, Alan D. Fox & Chris W. Hughes
Pycnostrophic coordinates and their application to meridional overturning
14.55-15.15
David Dritschel & Matthias Frey
The surface quasi-geostrophic model
15.15-15.35
Jacques Venneste, H. Wang, A. B. Villas-Bôas & W. R. Young
Current-induced modulations of oceanic surface waves
15.35-15.50
Discussion
15.50-16.00
16.05
Closing remarks. John Grue, Peter Davies
Adjourn
