School of Civil and Structural Engineering - Research Staff

Updated: 19 March 2001

Research Staff

John Lawrence John Lawrence
School of Civil and Structural Engineering,
Palace Court, Palace Street
Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2DE, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1752 233682
Fax: +44 (0)1752 233658
e-mail: J.Lawrence@plymouth.ac.uk

Introduction
I became a Research Fellow in the School of Civil and Structural Engineering in September l998, attached to the Coastal Engineering Research Group (CERG). I am working on an EPSRC project of numerical modelling of cross shore wave motion and sediment transport using a Finite Difference model.
1987: BSc (Hons) Engineering Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, University College of Swansea (University of Wales).

1989: MSc. Engineering Mechanics and the Finite Element Method, University College of Swansea.

1990: Graduate Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

1991 - 95: Hydrodynamicist, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, ( now CEFAS, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science ) Lowestoft.

1995 - 1998: Ice Sheet Modeller, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge .

1999: Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Chartered Mathematician. CMath., MIMA.

Teaching
I give assistance to the computer programming labs and hydraulics tutorials in Part I courses in the School.

Research
My present research is in the development of a Finite Difference model of the Boussinesq equations to study wave breaking on shingle beaches, and integration of sediment transport and morphology models to predict long term changes in the cross shore profile of steep shingle beaches.
Other research I have worked on include a Finite Element model of the Euler equations, simulating transonic air flow over aerofoils and investigation of shock capturing methods for this problem. My M.Sc. thesis, "An investigation of smoothing and the Taylor-Galerkin method for the solution of the Euler equations" covers some of this work.

I have also collaborated with the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Birkenhead (part of the Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences) on the development of Finite Difference tidal models of the Irish Sea.

Publications

Other Activities

Cycling.
Keeping a cat happy.
Member of various Living History and Battle Re-enactment societies.
Developing software on the LINUX operating system.

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Research Staff
		John Lawrence School of Civil and Structural Engineering, Palace Court, Palace Street Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2DE, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233682 Fax: +44 (0)1752 233658 e-mail: J.Lawrence@plymouth.ac.uk
Introduction I became a Research Fellow in the School of Civil and Structural Engineering in September l998, attached to the Coastal Engineering Research Group (CERG). I am working on an EPSRC project of numerical modelling of cross shore wave motion and sediment transport using a Finite Difference model. 1987: BSc (Hons) Engineering Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, University College of Swansea (University of Wales). 1989: MSc. Engineering Mechanics and the Finite Element Method, University College of Swansea. 1990: Graduate Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. 1991 - 95: Hydrodynamicist, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, ( now CEFAS, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science ) Lowestoft. 1995 - 1998: Ice Sheet Modeller, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge . 1999: Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Chartered Mathematician. CMath., MIMA.
Teaching I give assistance to the computer programming labs and hydraulics tutorials in Part I courses in the School.
Research My present research is in the development of a Finite Difference model of the Boussinesq equations to study wave breaking on shingle beaches, and integration of sediment transport and morphology models to predict long term changes in the cross shore profile of steep shingle beaches. Other research I have worked on include a Finite Element model of the Euler equations, simulating transonic air flow over aerofoils and investigation of shock capturing methods for this problem. My M.Sc. thesis, "An investigation of smoothing and the Taylor-Galerkin method for the solution of the Euler equations" covers some of this work. I have also collaborated with the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Birkenhead (part of the Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences) on the development of Finite Difference tidal models of the Irish Sea.
Publications
Other Activities Cycling. Keeping a cat happy. Member of various Living History and Battle Re-enactment societies. Developing software on the LINUX operating system.
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