Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Afdeling Hydraulica
- Name
- Hydraulics Section@en
- Acronym
- KULeuven
- Parent institute
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Departement Burgerlijke Bouwkunde
- Address
- Kasteelpark Arenberg 40, K.U.Leuven postbus 2448, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
- Contact numbers
-
- Telephone
- +32-(0)16-32 16 63
- Location
-
- latitude
- 50.8634957
- longitude
- 4.6850640
- Description @en
- The Hydraulics and Geotechnics section - Arenberg campus, conducts research that focuses on process understanding, numerical modelling and statistical analysis of aspects of the water cycle in the urban environment, in river systems, and in the coastal zone, including shelf seas and estuaries. The academic staff is responsible for teaching a number of courses related to the fields of hydraulics, hydrodynamics, hydraulic structures; urban, river and coastal engineering; and sediment mechanics and (eco-)morphodynamics. The research activities are mainly in the following domains of application:
- urban and river hydrology and hydraulics, covering all aspects of the water cycle in the urban environment as well as in river systems. Research topics are classified in 'rainfall', 'river hydrology and hydraulics' and 'urban hydrology and hydraulics';
- coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics with a main focus on waves and current modelling studies for design, operational or more fundamental aspects of coastal zone processes and also offshore applications;
- sediment mechanics with a focus on cohesive sediments (mixture of clay, silt, sand and organic matter);
- eco-hydromorphodynamics with a main focus on interactions between water, sediments and biota.
The section provides scientific consultancy services to third parties in the different research fields.
Note that there is also a Hydraulics and Geotechnics section - Bruges campus (KU Leuven, department of Civil Engineering). The focus there is on coastal and geotechnical engineering and more in particular on natural coastal protection, wave-structure-interaction and soil-structure-interaction under static, cyclic and seismic multidirectional loading. - Description @nl
- De afdeling Hydraulica en Geotechniek - campus Arenberg, verricht onderzoek dat gericht is op procesinzicht, numerieke modellering en statistische analyse van aspecten van de watercyclus in de stedelijke omgeving, in riviersystemen en in het kustgebied, met inbegrip van het continentale plat en estuaria. De academische staf is verantwoordelijk voor het doceren van een aantal cursussen op het gebied van hydraulica, hydrodynamica, hydraulische structuren; stedelijke, rivier- en kusttechniek; en sedimentmechanica en (eco-)morfodynamica. De onderzoeksactiviteiten betreffen voornamelijk de volgende toepassingsgebieden:
- stedelijke en rivierhydrologie en hydraulica gericht op alle aspecten van de watercyclus in de stedelijke omgeving en in riviersystemen. Onderzoeksonderwerpen worden ingedeeld in 'neerslag', 'rivierhydrologie en hydraulica' en 'stedelijke hydrologie en hydraulica';
- kust- en estuariene hydrodynamica met nadruk op studies van golven en stromingsmodellen voor ontwerp, operationele of meer fundamentele aspecten van kustzoneprocessen en ook offshore toepassingen;
- sedimentmechanica met focus op cohesieve sedimenten (mengsel van klei, slib, zand en organisch materiaal);
- eco-hydromorfodynamica met nadruk op interacties tussen water, sedimenten en biota.
De afdeling verleent wetenschappelijk advies aan derden in de verschillende onderzoeksgebieden.
Merk op dat er ook een afdeling Hydraulica en Geotechniek - campus Brugge bestaat (KU Leuven, departement Burgerlijke Bouwkunde), waar de focus eerder ligt op kust- en geotechniek en meer bepaald op natuurlijke kustbescherming, golf-structuur-interactie en bodem-structuur-interactie onder statische, cyclische en seismische multidirectionele belasting.
Expertise
- Climate change
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 68517
- Construction
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181492
- Current models
- Estuaries
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2895
- Extreme value analysis
- Hydraulics
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4087
- Hydrodynamics
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181504
- Hydrology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4114
- Intertidal zonation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4423
- Modelling
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5269
- Remote sensing
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6864
- Rheology
- River catchment hydrology
- Sediment mechanics/dynamics
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181521
- Sediment transport
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7391
- Spectral wave model
- Statistical analysis
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7981
- Stochastic models
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 83502
- Turbulence
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8801
- Uncertainty analysis
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 68550
- Water waves
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9160
- Wave data
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9181
- geographic terms
- ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf