METHODOLOGYHYDRALAB-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)Preliminary analysis of results (Hydrodynamics)
Sediment dynamics: Preliminary results from tests in a large-scale flume.
Beach profile evolution under erosion and accretion conditions
TEAM
NPE : 6 research officers, two trainee researches and 3 technicians
NEC: 3 research officers and two technicians