Publications

Breaking wave impacts on an elastic plate

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2025

This study experimentally investigates the hydroelastic response of a vertical cantilever plate subjected to a practical range of breaking wave impacts from non-breaking to highly aerated conditions.

Recommended citation: Hu, Z. and Li, Y.P., 2025. Breaking wave impacts on an elastic plate. J. Fluid Mech., accepted.

Full-scale tsunami-induced scour around a circular pile with three-dimensional seepage

Published in Coastal Engineering, 2025

In this study, we conduct rigid-bed and morphological simulations to investigate the role of seepage response in full-scale tsunami-induced flow features and sediment transport around a circular pile.

Recommended citation: Hu, Z. and Li, Y.P., 2025. Full-scale tsunami-induced scour around a circular pile with three-dimensional seepage. Coast. Eng., 197: 104676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2024.104676

The role of dynamic seepage response in sediment transport and tsunami-induced scour

Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2025

In this study, we explicitly quantify the role and mechanics of seepage response in field-scale tsunami-induced bed mobility and scour through theoretical analyses and fully coupled hydrodynamic and morphological simulations.

Recommended citation: Hu, Z., Qi, W.-G., Li, Y.P., 2025. The role of dynamic seepage response in sediment transport and tsunami-induced scour. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 130, e2024JC021084. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021084

Two-dimensional simulations of large-scale violent breaking wave impacts on a flexible wall

Published in Coastal Engineering, 2023

The impacts of four distinctive types of violent breaking waves on a flexible wall at a large scale are investigated using a fully-coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational solid mechanics (CSM) model in the finite-volume framework.

Recommended citation: Hu, Z. and Li, Y., 2023. Two-dimensional simulations of large-scale violent breaking wave impacts on a flexible wall. Coast. Eng., 185: 104370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2023.104370