METHODOLOGY
HYDRALAB-III will improve the performance of unique experimental facilities through a balanced combination of activities:
1 - Networking activities (4)
HYDRALAB-III will be managed, knowledge will be disseminated to the community and the use of high-quality facilities and measuring methods will be improved. Those activities are:

• NA1. Management
• NA1.1 Access monitoring
• NA1.2 Gender Action plan (GAP) monitoring
• NA1.3 Management team (MT)-meetings

• NA2. Explore present and future developments in experimental research
• NA2.1 HYDRALAB participants activities
• NA2.2 International Advisory Board (IAB)

• NA3. Guidelines, Data Management, Electronic pool and Internet site
• NA3.1 Guidelines and Best Practices
• NA3.2 Electronic pool of research facilities and unique measuring instruments
• NA3.3 Setup of a data management structure
• NA3.4 HYDRALAB internet site

• NA4. Dissemination of HYDRALAB results (LNEC, DHI, HULL TES, CNRM, UHANN, UPC, VITUKI)
• NA4.1 HYDRALAB Stakeholder Dissemination Meeting
• NA4.2 HYDRALAB Workshops
• NA4.3 HYDRALAB young professionals action plan and Young researcher dissemination

2 - Complementary Access activities (9)
22 experimental facilities throughout Europe; enabling researchers to carry out research in facilities to which, if it wasn't for this program, they normally would have no access to.

3 - Joint Research Activities (2)
The objective is to improve the coherence of experimental, numerical and physical modelling techniques and instrumentation in relation to fluid-sediment interactions. The JRA activities are:

SANDS - innovating instruments and good-practice protocols for mobile bed tests.

COMMIBS - improving methods of modelling the interactions between beaches and structures by developing composite modelling techniques, i.e.:

• Analyze the functionality of physical and numerical models and to outline the composite modelling approaches to be evaluated.
• Investigate the optimum choice of models for addressing generic problems of seabed /structure interaction.
• Produce guidelines on the strengths and weaknesses of a range of physical and numerical models.
• Produce best practice guidelines on composite modelling techniques of the interactions between beaches and structures.

Experiments performed for the COMIBBS project (Hydrodynamics study)




Sediment dynamics: Preliminary results from tests in a large-scale flume.