David R. Fuhrman

David R. Fuhrman is a Professor of Coastal Dynamics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on coastal engineering, including sediment transport, turbulence modeling, and wave hydrodynamics. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to the development of OpenFOAM's turbulence models. He serves on editorial boards for journals such as Coastal Engineering and Applied Ocean Research.

Education:

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (2004)
• MSc in Hydroinformatics, UNESCO-IHE, Delft (2001)
• BSc in Civil Engineering, University of Idaho (1999)

Research Interests:

• Sediment transport and coastal morphology
• Turbulence modeling and computational fluid dynamics
• Wave boundary layers and nonlinear wave dynamics
• Microplastic transport in coastal environments

His work addresses UN Sustainable Development Goals related to clean water and sustainable infrastructure.

Publications: Over 150 articles, with recent contributions focusing on probabilistic wave modeling, microplastic dynamics, and turbulence closure models.

Awards:

• ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award (2015)
• DTU Teaching Prize (2018)
• Coastal Engineering Journal Citation Award (2021)

Advising & Grants: Supervised 11 PhD students, 6 postdocs, and 42 MSc projects. Led projects like MPCOAST (microplastic transport) and SUBSEA (CFD modeling of breaking waves).

Labs/Teams: Active in DTU’s Fluid Mechanics group, collaborating internationally on coastal dynamics and CFD applications.