Research interests
Numerical modelling of separated flow, waves and wave-structure interaction, wind interaction with flexible structures, marine renewable energy. 

Publications
 

Yiu, K.F.C., Greaves, D.M., Cruz, S., Saalehi, A. and Borthwick, A.G.L. (1995) “Quadtree grid generation: information handling, boundary fitting and CFD applications”, International Journal of Computers and Fluids, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 759-769, ISSN 0045-7930.

Greaves, D.M., Borthwick, A.G.L., Eatock Taylor, R. and Wu, G.X. (1995), "Analysis of wave-body interactions using adaptive finite element meshes", Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop for Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Oxford, U.K., 2-5 April 1995, pp. 83-87, ISBN 0 952 62080 4.

Greaves, D.M. and Borthwick, A.G.L. (1995), "Computation of flow past a square cylinder using adaptive hierarchical meshes", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-24 June 1995, pp. 305-311, ISBN 0 7918 1306 1.

Greaves, D.M., Ma, Q.W., Borthwick, A.G.L. and Wu, G.X. (1996), "Octree-based finite element analysis for three-dimensional steep waves", Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop for Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Hamburg, Germany, 17-20 March 1996.

Greaves, D.M., Borthwick, A.G.L. and Wu, G.X. (1997), “An Investigation of standing waves using a fully non-linear boundary adaptive finite element method”, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop for Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Marseille, France, 16-19 March 1997, pp. 91-95.

Greaves, D.M., Borthwick, A.G.L., Wu, G.X. and Eatock Taylor, R. (1997), “A moving boundary finite element method for fully non-linear wave simulations”, Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 41, Sept.1997, pp. 181-194, ISSN 0022-4502.

Greaves, D.M. and Borthwick, A.G.L. (1997), “Adaptive quadtree grids applied to the computation of flow past circular cylinders”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Behaviour of Offshore Structures, Delft, The Netherlands, 7-10 July 1997, pp. 11-23, ISBN 0 08 042834 7.

Greaves, D.M. and Wu, G.X. (1997) “Quadtree-based methods for numerical simulation of fluid flow”, invited paper for the Chinese Conference on Hydrodynamics, September 1997.

Greaves, D.M. and Borthwick, A.G.L. (1998), “On the use of adaptive hierarchical meshes for numerical simulation of separated flows”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 26, pp. 303-322, ISSN 0271-2091.

Greaves, D.M. and Borthwick, A.G.L. (1999) “Hierarchical tree-based finite element mesh generation”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 45, pp. 447-471, ISSN 0029-5981.

Wu, G.X. and Greaves, D.M. (1999) “Numerical prediction of impact loads on an elastic structure” MARNET-CFD First workshop, Barcelona, 18-19 November 1999.

Wu, G.X., Eatock Taylor, R. and Greaves, D.M. (2001) “Viscous effect on the transient free surface flow in a two dimensional tank”, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 2001; vol. 40, 77-90, ISSN 0022-0833.

Greaves, D.M. (2001) “Interface Capturing with Hierarchical Grid Refinement”, MARNET-CFD Workshop, Crete, 17-18 October 2001.

Santos, C.M.P. and Greaves, D.M. (2002) “Surface Tracking in Non-linear Wave Simulations using Hierarchical Cartesian Grids”, 2^nd Workshop on Water Waves: Generation, Registration and Analysis, TU Berlin, 7-8 February 2002.

Santos, C.M.P. and Greaves, D.M. (2002) “An Adaptive Quadtree Surface Marker Method for Fully Non-linear Wave Simulations”, 5^th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Nantes, France, October 2002.

Hu, Z.Z., Greaves, D.M. and Wu, G.X. (2002) “Numerical simulation of fluid flows using an unstructured finite volume method with adaptive tri-tree grids”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 39, 403-440, ISSN 0271-2091.

Greaves, D.M. (2004) “A quadtree adaptive method for simulating fluid flows with moving interfaces”, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 194/1, pp. 35-56, ISSN 0021-9991.

Greaves, D.M. (2004) “Simulation of interface and free surface flows in a viscous fluid using adapting quadtree grids”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 44, 1093-1117, ISSN 0271-2091.

Santos, C.M.P. and Greaves, D.M. (2004) “Método multigrid para problemas irrotacionais com superfície livre”, Métodos Computacionais Em Engenharia, Lisboa, 31 de Maio – 2 de Junho, 2004, Portugal.

Greaves, D.M. (2004) “The use of adapting quadtree grids for simulating moving interface and viscous fluid free surface flows”, European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Jyväskylä, 24-28 July 2004.

Greaves, D.M. (2005) “Viscous wave simulation using adapting quadtrees”, 6^th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Glasgow, 29 August – 2 September 2005.

Greaves, D.M. (2006) “Simulation of viscous water column collapse using adapting hierarchical grids”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 50, 693 - 711, ISSN 0271-2091.

Silva Santos, C.M. and Greaves, D.M. (2006) “Using hierarchical Cartesian grids with multigrid acceleration”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 69:8, 1755 - 1774. ISSN 0271-2091

Silva Santos, C.M. and Greaves, D.M. (2006) “A mixed Lagrangian-Eulerian method for non-linear free-surface flows”, International Journal of Computers and Fluids, Vol. 36, 914 - 923. ISSN 0045-7930.

Greaves, D.M. (2006) “Viscous wave interaction with structures”, Proceedings of 21st International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, 2^nd – 5^th April 2006. ISBN 0947974 12 1

Matthews, L.A., Greaves, D.M. and Williams, C.J.K. 2006 “Numerical simulation of separated flow over flexible structural membranes”, European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECCOMAS CFD 2006, Delft, The Netherlands 5-8 September 2006.

Greaves, D.M. 2006 “Viscous wave interaction with structures using adapting quadtree grids and Cartesian cut cells”, European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECCOMAS CFD 2006, Delft, The Netherlands 5-8 September 2006.

Greaves, D.M. (2007) “Viscous waves and wave-structure interaction in a tank using adapting quadtree grids”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 23:8, 1149 - 1167. DOI:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2007.04.004

Fisher, A., Greaves, D., Hudson, R., Matthews, L. and Williams C.J.K. (2007) “Structural engineers and non-structural software”, The Structural Engineer, 85, No. 13, July 2007 pages 30 - 33.

Matthews, L.A., Greaves, D.M. and Williams, C.J.K. (2007) “Numerical simulation of viscous flow interaction with an elastic membrane”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 57: 1577 – 1602, DOI: 10.1002/fld.1682.

Greaves, D.M. (2007) “Numerical simulation of breaking waves and wave loading on a submerged cylinder”, Proceedings of 22st International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Plitvice, Croatia, UK, 15^nd – 18^th April 2007.

Westphalen, J., Greaves, D.M. and Williams, C.J.K. (2007) “Comparison of Free Surface Wave Simulations using STAR CCM+ and CFX”, 10^th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS'07), Hamburg, Germany, 23.9.-25.9. 2007

Westphalen, J., Greaves, D., Williams, C.J.K., Zang, J. and Taylor, P. (2008) “Numerical simulation of extreme free surface waves”, Proceedings of the 18^th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 6 - 11, 2008

Greaves, D. (2008) “Numerical Simulation of Breaking Waves using the Volume of Fluid Method”  Proceedings of 23rd International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Jeju, Korea, 13 - 16 April 2008.

Greaves, DM. (2008) “Marine Renewable energy in the Southwest” Proceedings of Our Coast and Public Health Conference 2008, 29-30 April, Plymouth, UK.

Conley, D.C., Hosegood, P. and Greaves, D.M. “Assessment of WaveHub impacts on the water column and seabed, both locally and remotely“, Proceedings of International Scientific Meeting on Marine Renewable Energy and the Environment (MAREE 2008), London, UK, 16 – 17 June 2008 .

Greaves, D., Conley, D. and Hosegood, P. “Marine Renewable Energy Research in the South West of England”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Ocean Energy, 15th - 17th October 2008, Brest, France.

Greaves, D.M, Smith, G,  Attrill, M., Belmont, M., Chadwick, A., Conley, D., Eccleston, A., Godley, B., Harrington, N., Hor, C.L.,  Hosegood, P., Johanning, L., Millar, D., Pan, S., Reeve, D., Williams, J., Wolfram, J., Xu, J., Zobaa, A., Zou, Q. (2009) Development of Marine Renewable Energy – research, design, installation, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Maritime Engineering, Special Issue on Offshore Renewable Energy, 2009, Vol. 162; Issue MA4, pp. 187 – 196.

Zhang, Y., Zou, Q., and Greaves, D.M. (2009) Numerical simulation of two phase flow using the level set method with global mass correction, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Volume 63 Issue 6, Pages 651 - 680. DOI: 10.1002/fld.2090

Westphalen, J., Greaves, DM, Williams, CJK, Drake, K, and Taylor, P. Numerical simulation of an oscillating cone at the water surface using computational fluid dynamics,  Proceedings of 24th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Russia, 18 - 22 April 2009.

 Zhang, Y., Zou, Q. and Greaves, D.M.’Dynamic response of wave energy converters in extreme waves’8^th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden 29 7 – 10 September 2009.

 Westphalen, J., Greaves, D., Williams, C.J.K., Taylor, P., Causon, D., Mingham, C., Hu, Z.Z., Stansby, P., Rogers, B. and Omidvar, P. ‘Extreme Wave Loading on Offshore Wave Energy Devices using CFD: a Hierarchical Team Approach’8^th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden 29 7 – 10 September 2009.

Greaves, D.M., Smith, G.H. and Wolfram, J. ‘Development of Marine Renewable Energy in the South West of England:  The Wave Hub and PRIMaRE’ Approach’8^th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden 29 7 – 10 September 2009.

Greaves, D.M. “Application of the Finite Volume Method to the simulation of nonlinear water waves”, Chapter 10,  in Advances in Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Water Waves, (ISBN: 978-981-283-649-6 or 978-981-283-649-7), edited by Qingwei Ma, in the series of Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol. 11, 2010, World Scientific Publishing Co.

Zhang, Y. Zou, Q, Greaves, D, Reeve^, D,Hunt-Raby, A, Graham, D., James, P and Lu, X (2010) A level set immersed boundary method for water exit and entry, Communications in physics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 265-288. Doi 10.4208/cicp.060709.060110a

Morgan, G., Zang, J., Greaves, D.M., Heath, A., Whitlow, C.D. and Young, J.R.  ‘Using the rasInterFoam CFD model for wave transformation and coastal modelling’, ICCE 2010, China.

Zhang,Y.¹  Zou, Q. Greaves, D.M., Reeve, D., Hunt-Raby, A., Graham, D. and  James, P. ‘An investigation of the hydrodynamic characteristics of an oscillating water column device using a level set immersed boundary model’, ISOPE 2010 Beijing, China, June 20 to 26 2010.

Jan Westphalen, J., Greaves, D., Hunt-Raby, A., Williams, C.J.K., Taylor, P., Hu, Z.Z, Omidvar, P., Causon, D., Mingham, C., Stansby, P., Rogers, B.’Numerical Simulation of Wave Energy Converters using Eulerian and Lagrangian CFD Methods’, ISOPE 2010 Beijing, China, June 20 to 26 2010.

Roc, T., Conley, D., Greaves, D.M., Huntley, D.  2010 Calibration of a Tidal Current Array Planning Tool 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon, 2010.

Westphalen, J., Greaves, D.M., Williams, C.J.K. and Hunt-Raby, A.  Numerical simulations of a floating body in one, two and six degrees of freedom using a Navier-Stokes solver, RINA Conference on MARINE & OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY, London, UK, April 21 – 22, 2010.

Westphalen, J., Greaves, D.M., Williams, C.J.K. and Hunt-Raby, A.,  Taylor, P.H., Hu, Z.Z., Omidvar, P., Causon, D.M., Mingham, C., Stansby, P.K., Rogers, B.D. and Stallard, T. Numerical Simulation of Wave-Structure Interaction wave energy conversion applications using Eulerian and Lagrangian CFD Methods, third International Conference on Ocean Energy ICOE 2010, Bilbao, Spain, 6 – 8 October 2010.

Greaves, D.M. ‘Marine Renewable Energy in the South West of England:  The Wave Hub and PRIMaRE’ GLOBE, Vancouver, Canada, 23 – 26 March 2010 (Invited speaker on Ocean Energy Commercialisation session).

Greaves, D.M. ‘The SOWFIA Project’, Invited Speaker at WAVEPLAM Ocean Energy Seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 5 May 2010.

Roc, T., Conley, D., Greaves, Accounting for Turbulence in a Regional Numerical Model for Tidal Current Turbine Farm Planning, third International Conference on Ocean Energy ICOE 2010, Bilbao, Spain, 6 – 8 October 2010.

Westphalen, J., Greaves, D.M., Williams, C.J.K, Hunt-Raby, A.C., Taylor, P., Zang, J. (2010) Focused waves and wave-structure interaction in a numerical wave tank, Ocean Engineering, in press.

Yali Zhang, Qingping Zou and Deborah Greaves, (2010) An investigation of the hydrodynamic characteristics of an oscillating water column device, submitted to Renewable Energy

Zhang,Y.¹  Zou, Q. Greaves, D.M., Reeve, D., Hunt-Raby, A. and Graham, D. (2011) Numerical Modelling of the Hydrodynamic Response of an Oscillating Water Column Device under Regular and Extreme Wave Conditions, submitted to ISOPE Journal

Roc, T., Conley, D. and Greaves, D. Turbulence Correction Terms for Representing Tidal Current Turbines in a Regional Ocean Model for Array Planning and Impact Assessment, submitted to ISOPE 2011, Hawaii.