Professor Sumer has been invited for a short stay by Professor Liang Cheng, Head of School of Marine Science and Engineering at the South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China, November 22-29, 2025.
Professor Cheng and his colleague A/Professor Chengjiao Ren, and Professor Sumer have discussed potential collaboration between Professor Cheng’s group and BM SUMER Consultancy & Research. On this occasion, Professor Sumer delivered two lectures, one at SCUT, entitled “Wall-normal pressure gradient over the bottom of a turbulent open-channel flow”, and the other at Institute for Ocean Engineering at Tsinghua University Campus in Shenzhen, a short drive from Guangzhou, entitled “Filter criteria and laboratory measurements of pressure around a monopile in scour protection”. A/Professor Enhao Wang along with his colleague A/Professor Lu Jing hosted Professor Sumer at the Shenzhen Campus.
