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David R. Fuhrman is Professor of Coastal Dynamics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on many aspects of coastal engineering, including: surf zone and coastal dynamics, sediment transport, coastal morphology, scour, turbulence modelling, wave boundary layers, and nonlinear wave hydrodynamics. He has published approximately 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals on such topics. He presently serves on the Editorial Boards for three leading international journals: (1) ASCE J. Waterways, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering; (2) Coastal Engineering; and (3) Applied Ocean Research. His research on turbulence modelling is featured in the latest v1912 release of the popular CFD software OpenFOAM. He is co-author of the textbook: Turbulence in Coastal and Civil Engineering.

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Distinctions, Honors & Awards:

• U.S. Fulbright / Netherland America Foundation Scholar, 1999-2000
• Myhrwold Foundation Special Achievement Award, for outstanding PhD thesis at DTU, 2005
• ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal & Ocean Engineering, 2015
• Co-author of Web of Science designated Highly Cited Paper. Starting in 2016 our paper (Jacobsen, Fuhrman & Fredsøe 2012) was so designated, “placing it in the top 1% of the academic field of Engineering, based on a threshold for field and publication year.”
• Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer Award for service to: (1) Coastal Engineering (achieved: 2016), (2) Applied Ocean Research (achieved: 2016) and Ocean Engineering (achieved: 2017)
• 2018 Top Reviewers in Engineering Award - Publons.com
• Nominee, 2018 Teacher of the Year - DTU Student Association
• Winner (named team member), 2018 DTU Prize for Teaching and Learning, awarded for developing the innovative “umbrella courses” for undergraduate engineering education at DTU
• "Stabilized" turbulence models from co-authored paper (Larsen & Fuhrman 2018) included in the open-source CFD software OpenFOAM, since ESI release v1912, 2019

Visitations:

• Oxford University, Oxford, England, 2002 (5 months)
• École Centrale de Marseille, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, Marseille, France, September 2005
• DHI, Coastal & Estuarine Dynamics Department, Hørsholm, Denmark, March, 2011—July, 2011
• University of Cambridge, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England, August, 2014
• Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Full-scale CIEM wave flume, Barcelona, Spain, June, 2017

Editorships, International journals and conferences:

• Editor (with Troels Aagaard & Rolf Deigaard), Proceedings of Coastal Dynamics 2017 Conference
• Associate Editor, Journal of Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering (ASME), 2015-2018
• Guest Associate Editor, Ocean Dynamics (Springer), Special issue on coastal dynamics
• Editorial Board, Applied Ocean Research (Elsevier), 2015-present
• Associate Editor, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal & Ocean Engineering (ASCE), 2017-present
• Advisory Editorial Board, Coastal Engineering (Elsevier), 2017-present

Other Professional Experience:

• Examination Committee for approx. 13 PhD Defenses (6 external, 7 internal)
• Supervisor for approx. 6 Postdoc, 11 PhD projects, and 42 MSc projects
• Peer reviewer for approx. 35 international journals

Research areas

• Sediment transport and scour
• Turbulence and turbulence modelling
• Wave hydrodynamics
• Surf zone / coastal dynamics
• Wave boundary layers
• Boussinesq-type methods for water waves
• Numerical methods and analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)