On April 27th, an academic conference online and offline was conducted by the team and former professor B. Mutlu Sumer and professor David R. Fuhrman at the Technical University of Denmark. This team participated in this discuss included professor Jisheng Zhang, professor Chi Zhang, young professor Titi Sui, postdoctoral research fellow Yuan Li and other 20 doctoral and master degree candidates.

Professor Titi Sui, as the inviter, conducted an opening report to welcome professor Sumer and professor Fuhrman and to introduce the research achievements accomplished by the team in terms of sediment movement and stability of foundation seabed under wave-current action. Soon afterwards, Musheng Yang, a doctoral candidate, gave a speech named ‘Scale effects on scour below submarine pipeline’, postgraduate Wujie Chen reported a lecture called ‘Local Scour beneath pipeline with shell-sand mixture seabed’, postgraduate Zhaoyang Sun made a report ‘Seabed response around a slope breakwater with the bimodal spectral wave loading’, postgraduate Yunhan Yang delivered a speech ‘Wave induced seabed response of a sloping bed’, and postgraduate Qi Yang did a lecture called ‘Span shoulder migration in three-dimensional wave-plus-current induced scour beneath submerged pipelines’. During the seminar, professor Sumer and professor Furhrman gave academic guidance and discussion with the team members.

A long-term academic collaboration was built between those two professors and the team, and they have jointly applied 2 scientific research projects of national level, including those funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China, and publish collaboratively 5 high-level papers. This academic conference deepened the communication and cooperation between the team members and professor Sumer and Fuhrman, and they agreed to hold academic conference and activities regularly.

  1. Mutlu Sumer is a Turkish scientist and engineer known for his studies on seabed and structure interaction including scour and soil liquefaction, as well as turbulence in coastal and civil engineering. He was previously professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has coordinated SCARCOST (Scour Around Coastal Structures), LIMAS (Liquefaction Around Marine Structures), and other 15 international and national research programs. During his tenure at the Technical University of Denmark, B. Mutlu Sumer developed courses such as Marine Structures I, Marine Structures II and turbulence Theory. He has published over 220 scientific papers. B. Mutlu Sumer has been awarded ASCE-Karl Emil Hilgard, and he has published 4 books. He founded a consultancy and research company, BM SUMER Consultancy & Research together with Professor Özgür Kirca.
  2. David R. Fuhrman is Professor of Coastal Dynamics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on many aspects of coastal engineering, including: surf zone and coastal dynamics, sediment transport, coastal morphology, scour, turbulence modelling, wave boundary layers, and nonlinear wave hydrodynamics. He has published approximately 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals on such topics. He presently serves on the Editorial Boards for three leading international journals: (1) ASCE J. Waterways, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering; (2) Coastal Engineering; and (3) Applied Ocean Research. His research on turbulence modelling is featured in the latest v1912 release of the popular CFD software OpenFOAM. He is co-author of the textbook: Turbulence in Coastal and Civil Engineering.