> HYDRALAB – Integrated Infrastructure Initiative

(01-04-2006/31-03-2010)

OBJECTIVES

HYDRALAB III is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) to optimize the important position of laboratory experiments in the field of Hydraulics, Geophysical Hydrodynamics, Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Ship Dynamics and Ice Engineering (HyGESI).

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)