• Nonlinear mechanics of wave-wave and wave-body interactions
• Dynamics of steep and breaking waves
• Extreme loads and large motions of ships and offshore platforms
• Reconstruction, assimilation and prediction of nonlinear wavefield evolutions
  including effects of winds and currents
• Hydrodynamics of rogue waves
• Dynamics of wave-bottom interactions,
  resonant wave reflection/ refraction and wave localization
• Nonlinear ship waves and ambient ship-wave interactions
• Nonlinear forces and control of near-surface submarines
• Water-entry and impact dynamics
• Stability of standing waves

• Free-surface vortical and turbulent flows
  • Mechanics of the coupled air-sea boundary layers
  • Interaction of vortices with a free surface
  • Structures and mechanisms of free surface turbulence
  • Near-surface turbulent diffusion and transport of dissolved substances
  • Viscous and turbulent flows around ship hulls
  • Dynamics of spray, jets, and wave breaking
  • Surfactant hydrodynamics; resonant interaction of dilatational (surfactant)
    and transverse waves
  • DNS, LES and RANS modeling of steep breaking waves

• Unsteady propulsion and hydrodynamics of fish like swimming
  • Vorticity control
  • Fish propulsion
  • Effect of moving boundaries on turbulent and separated flow
  • Fluid mechanics of flapping foils