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Overview

B. Mutlu Sumer is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily lies within the broad fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific focus on subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Oceanography.

They have contributed to several topics related to Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Hydraulic Flow and Structures, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

Recent scholarly work by B. Mutlu Sumer includes the following papers:

  • Scour and liquefaction issues for anchors and other subsea structures in floating offshore wind farms: A review, 2021, Water Science and Engineering
  • Numerical modeling of wave-induced liquefaction around a gravity-based structure, 2025, Frontiers in Built Environment
  • LAMINAR-TO-TURBULENT TRANSITION IN OSCILLATORY WAVE BOUNDARY LAYERS, 2025, Coastal Engineering Proceedings
  • SCOUR AROUND AND SINKING OF SUBSEA STRUCTURES EXPOSED TO CURRENT AND WAVES, 2025, Coastal Engineering Proceedings

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • V. Ş. Özgür Kırca
  • Mert Angin
  • Selman Baysal
  • Roghayeh Ghasempour

B. Mutlu Sumer's work has been published in venues such as Coastal Engineering Proceedings, Water Science and Engineering, and Frontiers in Built Environment.

Best Publications

  • Hydrodynamics around cylindrical structures

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Jørgen Fredsøe

  • The mechanics of scour in the marine environment

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Jørgen Fredsøe

  • Numerical and experimental investigation of flow and scour around a circular pile

    Andreas Roulund;B. Mutlu Sumer;Jørgen Fredsøe;Jess Michelsen

  • Turbulent oscillatory boundary layers at high Reynolds numbers

    B. L. Jensen;B. M. Sumer;J. Fredsøe

  • Scour Around Vertical Pile in Waves

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Jørgen Fredsøe;Niels Christiansen

  • Velocity and concentration profiles in sheet-flow layer of movable bed

    B. M. Sumer;A. Kozakiewicz;J. Fredsøe;R. Deigaard

  • Onset of scour below pipelines and self-burial

    B.M. Sumer;C. Truelsen;T. Sichmann;J. Fredsøe

  • Scour around Pile in Combined Waves and Current

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Jørgen Fredsøe

  • Scour around coastal structures: a summary of recent research $

    B.Mutlu Sumer;Richard J.S Whitehouse;Alf Tørum

  • Influence of turbulence on bed load sediment transport

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Lloyd H. C. Chua;N.-S. Cheng;Jørgen Fredsøe

  • Particle motions near the bottom in turbulent flow in an open channel. Part 2

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Rolf Deigaard

  • Wave plus current over a ripple-covered bed

    Jørgen Fredsøe;Ken Haste Andersen;B. Mutlu Sumer

  • Turbulent combined oscillatory flow and current in a pipe

    C. R. Lodahl;B. M. Sumer;J. Fredsøe

  • Liquefaction Around Marine Structures

    B. Mutlu Sumer

  • The sequence of sediment behaviour during wave-induced liquefaction

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Figen Hatipoglu;Jørgen Fredsøe;S. Kaan Sumer

  • Experimental study of 2D scour and its protection at a rubble-mound breakwater

    B.M Sumer;J Fredsøe

  • Numerical simulation of wave-induced scour and backfilling processes beneath submarine pipelines

    David R. Fuhrman;Cüneyt Baykal;B. Mutlu Sumer;Niels Gjøl Jacobsen

  • Wave Scour around a Large Vertical Circular Cylinder

    B. M. Sumer;J. Fredsøe

  • Experimental Validation of a Mathematical Model For Seabed Liquefaction Under Waves

    B. Mutlu Sumer;V.S. Ozgur Kirca;Jørgen Fredsøe

  • Control of Scour at Vertical Circular Piles under Waves and Current

    Subhasish Dey;Subhasish Dey;B. Mutlu Sumer;B. Mutlu Sumer;Jørgen Fredsøe;Jørgen Fredsøe

  • On the formation of ripples on an erodible bed

    B. Mutlu Sumer;Mehmet Bakioglu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jørgen Fredsøe
Jørgen Fredsøe Technical University of Denmark
Subhasish Dey
Subhasish Dey Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Nian-Sheng Cheng
Nian-Sheng Cheng Zhejiang University
Philip L.-F. Liu
Philip L.-F. Liu National University of Singapore
Costas E. Synolakis
Costas E. Synolakis University of Southern California
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Sebastiano Battiato
Sebastiano Battiato University of Catania
Giovanni Maria Farinella
Giovanni Maria Farinella University of Catania
Ken Haste Andersen
Ken Haste Andersen Technical University of Denmark

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