Senior Research Associate

Mark McAllister

  • I am a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Engineering Science.

  • I work on ocean waves and offshore renewables.

  • Before coming to Oxford, I studied at the University of Edinburgh, taking an MEng in Mechanical Engineering (2013) and a PhD in Engineering (2017).

Teaching

For the undergraduate course in Engineering Science, I give first-year tutorials in Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics.

Research

I work as part of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics group in the Department of Engineering Science. My research interests include: extreme ocean waves; wave breaking; wave structure interaction and offshore renewables. In 2018, I won the 16th ERCOFTAC Osborne Reynolds Day UK Fluid Mechanics thesis competition.

Selected Publications

M. L. McAllister and T. S. van den Bremer “Experimental Study of the Statistical Properties of Directionally Spread Ocean Waves Measured by Buoys” J. Phys. Oceanogr. 50, 399–414. (2020) 

 R. Calvert, M. L. McAllister, C. Whittaker, A. Raby, A. G. L. Borthwick, and T. S. van den Bremer “ A mechanism for the increased wave-induced drift of large floating marine litter” J. Fluid. Mech., 915, (2021) 

 T. Kanehira, M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott ,T. Nakashima, D. Ingram, T. S. van den Bremer and H. Mutsuda  “Highly directionally spread, overturning breaking waves modelled with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: a case study involving the Draupner wave.” Ocean Model., 164, 101822 (2021) 

 Z. Lin, T. A. A. Adcock and M. L. McAllister “Estimating Ocean Wave Directional Spreading Using Wave Following Buoys--a Comparison of Experimental Buoy and Gauge Data” J. Ocean Eng. Mar. Energy, 1-15 (2021) 

 M. L. McAllister , S. Draycott, T. Davey, Y. Yang, T. A. A,. Adcock, S. Liao, and T. S. van den Bremer “Wave breaking and jet formation on axisymmetric waves” J. Fluid. Mech., 935 (2022)