The Energy and Environmental Flow Modelling group is part of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing. It emerged from a collaborative initiative between academic staffs from the School of Computing and the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. It has strong links with other third level institutions including the Fluid and Heat Transfer Laboratory of Trinity College Dublin and the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre of University College Cork.

Its core objective is to develop new computational modelling capability for the study of environmental flows in general. The group is currently concentrating its effort on the development of a versatile and efficient three dimensional fluid flow solver. Potential areas of application include but are not limited to:

• Basic research in multi-fluid flow.
• Basic research into wave-current-wind interaction.
• Modelling of the dynamic response of marine structures to environmental loading.
• Study of coastal erosion processes.
• Basic research in Transmission Line Modelling (TLM) methods for convection-diffusion.