Dr. Sean Mulligan

VorTech Water Solutions and National University of Ireland, Galway

Research Associate

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About

Dr Sean Mulligan is a principal investigator and post-doctoral research associate at NUI Galway managing a number of hydraulics projects in the spheres of aeration technology design, hydraulic structures and wastewater treatment. Sean undertook his PhD at IT Sligo where he held an Irish Research Council (IRC) Embark Scholarship (completed in 2015). His PhD research focused on both experimental and numerical modelling of vortex energy dissipation structures. He is currently an active member of the International Association for Hydro-Environmental Research (IAHR) International Hydraulic Structures group and a member of their International Scientific Committee. He is the lead inventor of a patent pending wastewater treatment technology and has been directly involved in raising over €520,000 of academic and commercial research funding. Sean is an author and co-author on 16 research articles including journal publications in Nature Scientific Reports, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, IAHR Journal of Hydraulics Research. Sean provides his expertise in applied hydraulic modelling to EcoAqua to determine optimal farm design

Career Type:

Practitioner/Engineers

Organization Type:

Companies and Enterprises

Expertise Fields/Interests:

applied hydraulic modelling to EcoAqua to determine optimal farm design

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Hydraulic Structures
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Committee on Fluid Mechanics
Committee on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
Committee on Ecohydraulics
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
Committee on Education and Professional Development
Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Committee on Hydraulic Structures	Vice Chair	2023-09-09	Now
Hydrolink Editorial Board	Advisor	2022-09-01	Now
Sustainable Development Goals Working Group	Member	2022-07-03	Now
IAHR Ireland Young Professionals Network	YPN Advisor	2021-05-20	Now
Committee on Hydraulic Structures	Member	2020-09-01	2023-09-09

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Drop Structures across (and under) the United States of America	2024
The importance of Drop Structures for Urban Hydraulic Engineering	2024
Vortex-Flow Intakes	2023
A Novel Dual Inlet Tangential Vortex Drop Shaft: An Analytical and Numerical Study	2022
Hydraulic Structures at a Crossroads Towards the SDGs	2021
In-Process Hydraulic and Dissolved Oxygen Characteristics of an Oxidation Ditch with Horizontal Brush Surface Aerators	2020
Vortex Drop Shaft Structures: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends	2019
Multiphase Numerical Modelling of Hydraulic Structures with Rapidly Rotating Flows: Stormwater Vortex Hydrodynamic Separator	2018
Numerical Simulation and Assessment of the Effects of Inlet Configuration on the Flushing Time of a Potable Water Service Reservoir	2018

My Videos

Title	Year
IAHR Water Monograph Webinar 2: Vortex-Flow Intakes	2023

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date