Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen
Background and activities
Research areas right now (Fluid dynamics):
Interactions between waves, turbulence and currents
Remote sensing of ocean currents
Free-surface turbulence
Honours (selected):
- ERC Consolidator Grant recipient, project WaTurSheD (2023-2027)
- Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
- Member of the Young Academy of Norway (Adademiet for Yngre Forskere)
- Outstanding Academic Fellow of NTNU (Stjerneprogrammet), 2018-2022
- Prize to outstanding young researchers from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2011)
- Exxon Mobil prize for best PhD thesis at NTNU in basic research (2011)
Artist: Principal member of prog rock band Shamblemaths (homepage, bandcamp, facebook). "Shamblemaths 2" is ranked 1# prog rock album in the world for 2021 on ProgArchive as of September 2022. Saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone), guitars, vocals, sundry implements, composition and arrangement, graphic design.
Publications:http://folk.ntnu.no/simenand/publications.html
Websites: see my wikipedia page and my webpage.
Education:
- MSc (siv.ing.) in technical physics, NTNU 2001-2006
- PhD in War Studies, King's College London 2006-2009
- PhD in Quantum Physics, NTNU 2007-2011
Courses
- TEP4100 - Fluid Mechanics
- EP8420 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics
- TEP4926 - Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics, Master's Thesis
- TEP4541 - Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics, Specialisation Project
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) Getting the ducks in a row. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 932.
- (2021) Designing vortices in pipe flow with topography-driven Langmuir circulation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 926.
- (2020) Langmuir-type vortices in wall-bounded flows driven by a criss-cross wavy wall topography. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 900.
- (2020) Path-Following Methods for Calculating Linear Surface Wave Dispersion Relations on Vertical Shear Flows. Water Waves. vol. 2.
- (2019) Sheared free-surface flow over three-dimensional obstructions of finite amplitude. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 878.
- (2019) Weakly nonlinear transient waves on a shear current: ring waves and skewed Langmuir rolls. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 863.
- (2019) A Framework for Modeling Linear Surface Waves on Shear Currents in Slowly Varying Waters. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. vol. 124 (4).
- (2019) Transient wave resistance upon a real shear current. European journal of mechanics. B, Fluids. vol. 73.
- (2019) The Error in Predicted Phase Velocity of Surface Waves atop a Shear Current with Uncertainty. Water Waves. vol. 2.
- (2019) Observation of surface wave patterns modified by sub-surface shear currents. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 873.
- (2019) An Improved Method for Determining Near‐Surface Currents From Wave Dispersion Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. vol. 124 (12).
- (2017) Approximate Dispersion Relations for Waves on Arbitrary Shear Flows. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. vol. 122 (12).
- (2017) Surface waves on currents with arbitrary vertical shear. Physics of Fluids. vol. 29 (4).
- (2016) Oblique waves on a vertically sheared current are rotational. European journal of mechanics. B, Fluids. vol. 56.
- (2016) Oscillating line source in a shear flow with a free surface: critical layer-like contributions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 798.
- (2016) Waves from an oscillating point source with a free surface in the presence of a shear current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 798.
- (2016) Multiple resonances of a moving oscillating surface disturbance on a shear current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 808.
- (2016) Ship waves on uniform shear current at finite depth: Wave resistance and critical velocity. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 791.
- (2015) Three-body effects in Casimir-Polder repulsion. Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (PRA). vol. 91 (4).
- (2014) Initial surface disturbance on a shear current: The Cauchy-Poisson problem with a twist. Physics of Fluids. vol. 26.