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BM SUMER Consultants

More than 40 years experience
in research and consultancy

BM SUMER CONSULTANTS

BM SUMER originated from the consultancy B Mutlu Sumer Professor, C Ing., based in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, active over more than 25 years in Coastal, Offshore, Hydraulic, River, Marine Civil Engineering. With speciality areas such as scour / scour protection around marine and hydraulic structures; marine soil liquefaction and its implications for marine structures; current and wave loading on and hydroelastic vibrations of marine / hydraulic structures including pipelines; river engineering; coastal and river sediment transport.

Professor Sumer was joined by Dr. Kirca in 2015 to set up BM SUMER. Since 2016, BM SUMER Consultancy & Research is affiliated to ITU ARI Teknokent, the technology & science park of Istanbul Technical University. BM SUMER has been awarded in two categories of BEETECH 2019 startup awards by ITU ARI Teknokent, (1) the award for the highest R&D turnover, and (2) that for the highest R&D export. BM SUMER provides to clients as consultants in-depth insight and creative solutions in matters related to all aspects of Coastal, Hydraulic and Offshore Engineering.

Extending beyond the classical consultancy services, BM SUMER consultants provide services in which consultancy and advanced-research go hand in hand. BM SUMER consultants employ cutting-edge methods and technologies, including advanced mathematical / numerical modelling as well as physical modelling studies to achieve the most optimal solutions to engineering problems.

Mutlu Sumer

Prof.-Dr-B.-Mutlu-Sumer-

B. Mutlu Sumer is the founder of the firm. He was previously Professor at the Technical University of Denmark.

Mutlu Sumer has more than 40 year experience in Coastal, Offshore, Hydraulic, River, and Marine Civil Engineering. He is one of the leading engineers / scientists in the world in seabed-structure interaction including scour / scour protection in connection with wind farms, marine structures and pipelines; liquefaction of marine soils and its implication for marine structures; forces on and vibrations of marine structures including marine pipelines. His specialty areas also cover turbulence in coastal and civil engineering, river engineering, and sediment transport.

He has published over 200 scientific papers, and four books, (1) Hydrodynamics Around Cylindrical Structures, 1997, revised edition, 2006 (with J. Fredsøe); (2) The Mechanics of Scour in the Marine Environment, 2002 (with J. Fredsøe); (3) Liquefaction Around Marine Structures, 2014; and (4) Turbulence in Coastal and Civil Engineering, 2020 (with D. R. Fuhrman).

He has coordinated many international research programs.

Mutlu Sumer has received many awards including 2005 Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineering, and 1991 Science Award of TUBITAK.

He has done consultancy work in projects in many countries including Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Indonesia, Libya, Norway, Pakistan, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and United Kingdom.

Full CV of B. Mutlu Sumer

Özgür Kırca

V. Ş. Özgür Kırca

V.S. Ozgur Kirca is the co-founder of the firm. He is also a Professor of Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering.

Ozgur Kirca has been actively involved in consulting for the industry for more than 15 years in different aspects of Coastal, Offshore and Hydraulic Engineering. His expertise includes seabed-flow-structure interaction, turbulent processes, sediment transport and morphodynamics, physical and numerical modelling of coastal/hydraulic processes, design and assessment of coastal protection structures, statistical and spectral wave analysis.

He has published over 50 scientific papers and has been involved in many international and national research programs. He received “2014’s Outstanding Reviewer Award” from ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering.

He has done consultancy work in projects in many countries including Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Jordan, Libya, Namibia, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.

Full CV of V.S. Ozgur Kirca

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