Qingping Zou

Teaching interests

Coastal and Offshore Engineering

Hydraulics

Advanced  and Computational Hydraulics

 

Research interests

Turbulent boundary layers

Waves, wave-current, wave-bottom and wave-structure interactions

Coastal flooding and erosion

Marine renewable energy

Sediment dynamics

Remote sensing of air-sea interactions.

 

Grants & contracts

SWRDA: Coupled Dynamic Response of Wave Energy Converters and Mooring Systems (PI, £389,000, 2007-2010)

NERC: Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE)- Ensemble Prediction of Inundation Risk and Uncertainty arising from Scour (EPIRUS), (PI, £1.1million, 2007-2010)

K.C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong: Remote Sensing Measurements of Near-shore Breaking Waves (PI, 20,000 Chinese Yuan, 2006-)

Canadian Geological Survey: Modelling Waves, Currents and Sediment Mobility on Sable Island Bank, Scotian Shelf, Canada (PI, $20,000, 2006-2008)

University of Plymouth: Research Start-up Fund (PI, £5,000, 2004-)

Canadian Space Agency: High Wind Retrieval using SAR and Scatterometer (Co-PI, $30,000, 2003-2004)

Canadian Space Agency: Validation of Wind Fields from High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Models using SAR (Co-PI, $215,000, 2003-2005)

 

Publications

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Lv, X., Q.-P. Zou, D. E. Reeve & Y. Zhao 2012: A preconditioned implicit free-surface capture scheme for large density ratio on tetrahedral grids, Communications in Computational Physics,  Vol 11, No 1, Pages 215-248.

Zhang, Y.L., Zou, Q.-P., Greaves, D. 2011: Air-water two-phase flow modelling of hydrodynamic performance of an oscillating water column device,  Renewable Energy,(10.1016/j.renene.2011.10.011).

Vandamme, J., Q.-P. Zou & E. Ellis, 2011: Novel particle method for modelling the episodic collapse of soft coastal bluff,  Geomorphology, (doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.09.013)

Lv, X., Q.-P. Zou & D. E. Reeve 2011: Numerical simulation of overflow at vertical weirs using a hybrid Level Set/VOF method, Advances in Water Resouces,  Vol 34, Issue 10, Pages 1320-1334,(10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.06.009) 

Gonzalez-Santamaria, R., Q.-P. Zou, &  S. Pan, 2011: Two-way coupled wave and tide modelling of a wave farm, Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64, 1038 -1042, (ISSN 0749-0208)

Zou, Q.-P.  2011: Generation, transformation and scattering of long waves induced by a short-wave group over finite topography, Journal of Physical Oceanography, (doi: 10.1175/2011JPO4511.1)

Peng, Z. & Q.-P. Zou, 2011: Spatial distribution of wave overtopping water behind coastal structures, Coastal Engineering,Vol 58, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 489-498, (doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng. 2011.01.010)

Zou, Q.-P., & Z. Peng, 2011: Evolution of  wave shape over a low-crested structure, Coastal Engineering,Vol 58, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 478-488, (doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng. 2011.01.00)

Vandamme, J., Q.-P. Zou & D. E. Reeve, 2011: Modelling floating object entry and exit using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, ASCE,  J Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol 137, Issue 5, pages 213-268, (doi:10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000086)

Bakhtyar, R., Razmi, A.M., Barry, D.A., Yeganeh-Bakhtiary, A. &  Q.-P. Zou, 2010: Air-water two-phase flow modeling of turbulent surf and swash zone wave motions, Advances in Water Resources, Vol 33, Issue 12, Pages 1560-1574 (doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.09.007).

Dance, S. L.  & Q.-P. Zou, 2010:  Ensembles, uncertainity and flood predictions, Hydrology & Earth System Sciences, Discuss.,7, 3591-3611, (doi:10.5194/hessd-7-3591-2010).  

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

Lv, X., Q.-P. Zou, Y. Zhao & D. E. Reeve, 2010: A Novel Coupled Level Set and Volume of Fluid Method for Sharp Interface Capturing on 3D Tetrahedral Grids, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 229, Issue 7, Pages 2573-2604, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2009.12.005

A. Pedrozo-Acuna, A. Torres-Freyermuth, Q.-P. Zou, T.-J. Hsu & D. E. Reeve 2010: Diagnostic investigation of impulsive pressures induced by plunging breakers impinging on gravel beaches, Coastal Engineering, Volume 57, Issue 3, pages 252-266,  doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.09.010.

Zhang, Y.-L., Q.-P. Zou & D. M. Greaves, 2010: Numerical simulation of free-surface flow using the level-set method with global mass correction, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 63, Issue 6, Pages 651-680,  doi: 10.1002/fld.2090.

Lv, X., Q.-P. Zou, & D. E. Reeve, 2009: A Hybrid LS and VOF method for 3-D simulation of wave breaking and overtopping, International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering,Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2009, pp. 308–316

Greaves, D., 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.-P. 2009: Development of marine renewable energy – research, design, installation, Maritime Engineering Journal, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 162, Issue 4, pages 187 –196, doi:10.1680/maen.2009.162.4.187

Peng, Z., Q.-P. Zou, D. E. Reeve & B. Wang, 2009: Parameterisation and transformation of  wave asymmetries over a low crested breakwater, Coastal Engineering, Vol. 56, Issues 11-12, Pages 1123-1132, doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.08.005.

Wang, Z.-Y., Q.-P. Zou & D. E. Reeve, 2009: Simulation of spilling breaking waves using a two phase flow CFD model, Computers & Fluids, Vol. 38, Issue 10,1995-2005, doi:10.1016/j.compfluid.2009.06.006.

Zou, Q.-P., Y.-J. He, W. Perrie & P.W. Vachon, 2007: Wind vector estimation for RADARSAT-1 SAR images:Validation of wind direction estimates based upon geometry diversity, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol4 (1),176-180.

Zou, Q.-P., A. J. Bowen & A. E. Hay, 2006: The vertical distribution of wave shear stress in variable water depth: theory and field observations. J. Geophys. Res., 111 (C09032), doi:10.1029/2005JC003300. 

He, Y.-J., W. Perrie, Q.-P. Zou & P.W. Vachon, 2005: A new wind vector algorithm for C-band SAR, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43 (7), 1453-1458.

He, Y.-J., W. Perrie, T. Xie & Q.-P. Zou 2004: Ocean wave spectra from a linear polarimetric SAR, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 42 (11), 2623-2631.

Zou, Q.-P. 2004: A simple model for random wave bottom friction and dissipation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34 (6), 1459-1467.

Perrie W., B. Toulany, Y.-C. Hu, R. Padilla-Hernadez, P. Smith, Q.-P. Zou, W.-Q. Zhang & X.-J. Ren, 2004: Waves in Hurricane Juan. CMOS (Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society) Bulletin, 32 (2), 45-48.

Zou, Q.-P. , A. E. Hay & A. J. Bowen, 2003: The vertical structure of surface gravity waves propagating over a sloping sea bed: theory and field measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 108 (C8), 3265, doi:10.1029/2002JC001432.

Zou, Q.-P. & A. E. Hay, 2003: The vertical structure of the wave bottom boundary layer over a sloping bed: theory and field measurements. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33 (7), 1380-1400.

Zou, Q.-P., 2002: An analytical model of wave bottom boundary layers incorporating turbulent relaxation and diffusion effects. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 32 (9), pp. 2441–2456.

Zou, Q.-P., 1998: A viscoelastic model for turbulent flow over an undulating topography. Journal of Fluid Mech. 355, 81-112.

Miles, J. W. & Q.-P. Zou, 1993: Parametric excitation of a detuned spherical pendulum. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 164 (2), 237-250.

Miles, J. W. & Q.-P. Zou, 1993: Gravity-wave reflection at a discontinuity in bottom slope. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 23 (8), 1870-1871.

OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

Zou, Q.-P., H. Karunarathna & J. W. Miles 2005: Long Waves Induced by Topographical Scattering of Short-Wave Groups, Proceeding of 12th Canadian Coastal Conferences, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Zou, Q.-P., Y.-J. He, W. Perrie & P.W. Vachon 2004: Wind vector inversion from radarsat sar images: a new algorithm. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).

He Y.-J., Q.-P Zou,.W. Perrie & P.W. Vachon 2004: Wind retrieval algorithm from Envisat images. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).

Zou, Q.-P. & A. E. Hay, 2001: Velocity profiles above and within the wave bottom boundary layer over a sloping bottom. Proc. 27th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng., pp 94-107, Sydney, Australia.

Zou, Q.-P. 1992: Shear flow instability near Froude number one-theory and experiment. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanogr. Inst. WHOI-93-24. 382-408.