Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium
- Name
- Flanders Hydraulics@en
- Acronym
- MOW-WL
- Parent institute
-
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken; Vlaams Ministerie Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken; Departement Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken
- Address
- Berchemlei 115, 2140 Antwerpen (Borgerhout), Belgium
- Contact numbers
-
- Telephone
- +32-(0)3-224 60 35
- Email
- waterbouwkundiglabo@vlaanderen.be
- Location
-
- latitude
- 51.2046195
- longitude
- 4.4479100
- Description @en
- Flanders Hydraulics was founded in 1933, and was initially part of the 'Antwerpse Zeediensten' until 1945. In this year, the institute became a separate research department under the Ministry of Public Works, Administration Waterways and Marine Affairs. In 1989, this entity was integrated in the Ministry of the Flemish Community, which included the merging of Flanders Hydraulics Research with the department of Hydrological Research. Since 2006, the laboratory is a division of the Technical Support Services of the department of Mobility and Public Works of the Flemish government.
Flanders Hydraulics Research is active within five research fields:
- coastal protection;
- harbours and waterways;
- water management;
- hydraulic structures;
- hydraulics and sediment.
The research of the laboratory is targeted at three main topics:
- safe and smooth manoeuvring of ships in Flemish ports and on Flemish inland waters;
- optimisation of hydraulic constructions (ports, locks, dams, dikes, weirs);
- developing efficient measures to control exceptional water levels in rivers.
More specifically, the group performs hydraulic and nautical studies for hydraulic constructions, harbours, rivers, the coast and the environment. The hydrodynamic regime of important non-tidal rivers and canals is also studied, and the laboratory also performs studies which are highly relevant for the management of waterways. The laboratory manages the hydrological monitoring network, is charged with flood risk warning in Flanders, carries out assignments for the agency for Maritime and Coastal Services and performs similar assignments for other Belgian and foreign governmental services as well as for private companies.
Flanders Hydraulics Research disposes of a wide range of research infrastructure, from physical models (wave flume, wave basin, multifunctional test basin, towing tank, current flume, Scheldt and Zeebrugge model), ship simulators, a sediment laboratory to its own applied software. The laboratory also participates in several projects with both Belgian and foreign universities and institutes, with an emphasis on cross-border collaboration regarding the Scheldt estuary. - Description @nl
- Het Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium werd opgericht in 1933 en maakte tot 1945 deel uit van de Antwerpse Zeediensten. In dat jaar werd het instituut een aparte onderzoeksafdeling onder het Ministerie van Openbare Werken, Administratie Waterwegen en Zeewezen. In 1989 werd deze entiteit geïntegreerd in het Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, waarbij het Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium werd samengevoegd met de afdeling Hydrologisch Onderzoek. Sinds 2006 is het laboratorium een afdeling van de Technische Ondersteunende Diensten van het departement Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken van de Vlaamse overheid.
Het Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium is actief binnen vijf onderzoeksdomeinen:
- kustbescherming;
- havens en waterwegen;
- waterbeheer;
- hydraulische constructies;
- hydraulica en sediment.
Het onderzoek van het laboratorium is gericht op drie hoofdthema's:
- veilig en vlot manoeuvreren van schepen in Vlaamse havens en op Vlaamse binnenwateren;
- optimalisatie van hydraulische constructies (havens, sluizen, dammen, dijken, stuwen);
- de ontwikkeling van efficiënte maatregelen om uitzonderlijke waterstanden in rivieren te beheersen.
Meer bepaald voert de groep hydraulische en nautische studies uit voor waterbouwkundige constructies, havens, rivieren, de kust en het milieu. Ook het hydrodynamisch regime van belangrijke niet-getijdenrivieren en kanalen wordt bestudeerd en het laboratorium voert ook studies uit die relevant zijn voor het beheer van waterwegen. Het laboratorium beheert het hydrologisch meetnet, is belast met de waarschuwing voor overstromingsrisico's in Vlaanderen, voert opdrachten uit voor het Agentschap Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust en voert gelijkaardige opdrachten uit voor andere Belgische en buitenlandse overheidsdiensten en voor privébedrijven.
Het Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium beschikt over een uitgebreide onderzoeksinfrastructuur, van fysische modellen (golfgoot, golfbekken, multifunctioneel testbekken, sleeptank, stroomgoot, Schelde- en Zeebrugge-model), scheepssimulatoren, een sedimentlaboratorium tot eigen toegepaste software. Het laboratorium neemt ook deel aan verschillende projecten met zowel Belgische als buitenlandse universiteiten en instituten, met de nadruk op grensoverschrijdende samenwerking met betrekking tot het Schelde-estuarium.
Expertise
- Breakwaters
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1178
- Coast defences
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1623
- Coastal defence
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181491
- Consolidation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1811
- Construction
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181492
- Density flow
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2217
- Eco-hydraulics
- Embankments
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2743
- Flood control
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3324
- Flood forecasting
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3326
- Flood plains
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3327
- Geophysics
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181500
- Harbour installations
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3901
- Harbour models
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3902
- Harbour structures
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3905
- Harbours
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3906
- Hydraulic engineering
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4080
- Hydraulic models
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4082
- Hydraulic structures
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4084
- Hydrodynamics
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4095
- Hydrodynamics
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181504
- Hydrology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4114
- Hydrometry
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4118
- In situ measurements
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4265
- Information services
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9762
- Jetties
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4520
- Manoeuvrability
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4958
- Maritime structures
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5032
- Mathematical models
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5070
- Navigational channels
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5465
- Overtopping
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5902
- Port installations
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6459
- River basin management
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7006
- River engineering
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7013
- River morphology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7018
- Runoff
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7074
- Saline intrusion
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7091
- Scale models
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7204
- Sediment mechanics/dynamics
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181521
- Sediment transport
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7391
- Sedimentology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7402
- Ship locks
- Ship motion
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7599
- Shipping
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7610
- Ships
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7614
- Simulation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7674
- Theoretical nautical knowledge
- Tidal models
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8587
- Tides
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8613
- Towing tanks
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8664
- Water level measurement
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9106
- Waterway design
- Wave climate
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9175
- Wave data
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9181
- Wave diffraction
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9183
- Wave forces
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9195
- Wave tanks
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9250
- Weirs
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9290
- geographic terms
- ANE, Belgium, Belgian Coast
- ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde
- ANE, North Sea
- Belgium, Zeeschelde
