DrMarios Christou

Associate Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering

RESEARCH

Overview
Dr Christou's research interests include:

Metocean, Offshore and Coastal Engineering
Fully nonlinear wave-wave, wave-structure and wave-vessel interactions
Limiting wave and crest heights in shallow water
Infragravity waves interacting with coastal structures and vessels
Extreme and freak/rogue/abnormal waves
Analysis of field measurements of raw wave data
Wave and crest height probability distributions
Side-by-side and tandem offloading between vessels
Time-frequency analysis techniques (Wavelet & Hilbert-Huang Transforms) applied to the wave spectrum
Boundary Element Modelling
Rapidly varying wind loading of floating vessels