Study level

  • Vacation research experience scheme

Faculty/School

Faculty of Science

School of Mathematical Sciences

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Centre for Data Science

Supervisors

Professor Scott McCue
Position
Professor
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Science
Professor Timothy Moroney
Position
Professor in Mathematics
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Science

Overview

When a ship moves through water, it generates waves. These waves propagate through the medium and their effect can be detected many kilometres away from the initial disturbance.

Supposing that a sensor is placed in the water which can measure the height of the free surface at a single point over time, somewhere close to the shore perhaps, it is of considerable interest to know how much information about the disturbance can be recovered from that signal, such as the size, shape and speed of the ship.

This information could be used to ascertain, for example, the likely source of damaging waves encountered on the shore.

Research activities

In this project you will be involved in one or more complementary approaches in understanding and analysing the surface height signal, depending on your background and interests:

  • Mathematical and computational modelling of nonlinear water waves
  • linear and nonlinear signal processing
  • spectrograms
  • wavelets
  • machine learning.

Outcomes

We expect to unveil new insights and understanding as part of this project. We also intend to create software and publish research articles.

Skills and experience

This project is suitable for students with a background in any of:

  • computational mathematics
  • Fourier analysis
  • signal processing
  • machine learning

Contact

Contact the supervisor for more information.