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Afdeling Hydraulica (KULeuven)
www.kuleuven.ac.be/hydr/index.html
English name: Hydraulics Section
Parent institute: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Departement Burgerlijke Bouwkunde (KULeuven-BWK), more

Thesaurus terms (20) : ; Climate change; Current models; Estuaries; Extreme value analysis; Hydraulics; Hydrology; Intertidal zonation; Modelling; Remote sensing; Rheology; River catchment hydrology; Sediment transport; Spectral wave model; Statistical analysis; Stochastic models; Turbulence; Uncertainty analysis; Water waves; Wave data
MRG keywords (3) : Construction; Hydrodynamics; Sediment mechanics/dynamics
Address:
Kasteelpark Arenberg 40
K.U.Leuven postbus 2448
3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Tel.: +32-(0)16-32 16 63
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Type: Scientific
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Persons formerly associated with this organization (3)
Abstract:
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.
Publications (10)  Top | Persons 
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  • Peer reviewed article Monbaliu, J.; Chen, Z.; Felts, D.; Ge, J.; Hissel, F.; Kappenberg, J.; Narayan, S.; Nicholls, R.J.; Ohle, N.; Schuster, D.; Sothmann, J.; Willems, P. (2014). Risk assessment of estuaries under climate change: lessons from Western Europe. Coast. Eng. 87: 32-49. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2014.01.001, more
  • Peer reviewed article Penning-Rowsell, E.C.; de Vries, W.S.; Parker, D.J.; Zanuttigh, B.; Simmonds, D.; Trifonova, E.; Hissel, F.; Monbaliu, J.; Lendzion, J.; Ohle, N.; Diaz, P.; Bouma, T. (2014). Innovation in coastal risk management: An exploratory analysis of risk governance issues at eight THESEUS study sites. Coast. Eng. 87: 210-217. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.12.005, more
  • Peer reviewed article Taramelli, A.; Valentini, E.; Cornacchia, L.; Mandrone, S.; Monbaliu, J.; Hoggart, S.P.G.; Thompson, R.C.; Zanuttigh, B. (2014). Modeling uncertainty in estuarine system by means of combined approach of optical and radar remote sensing. Coast. Eng. 87(SI): 77-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.11.001, more
  • Peer reviewed article Weisse, R.; Bellafiore, D.; Menéndez, M.; Méndez, F.; Nicholls, R.J.; Umgiesser, G.; Willems, P. (2014). Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts. Coast. Eng. 87: 4-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.10.017, more
  • Peer reviewed article Narayan, S.; Hanson, S.; Nicholls, R.J.; Clarke, D.; Willems, P.; Ntegeka, V.; Monbaliu, J. (2012). A holistic model for coastal flooding using system diagrams and the Source-Pathway-Receptor (SPR) concept. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 12(5): 1431-1439. dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-1431-2012, more
  • Peer reviewed article Ntegeka, V.; Willems, P.; Monbaliu, J. (2012). On the relative importance of the climate change factors along the river Scheldt considering climate scenarios for upstream inland and downstream coastal (mean sea level and surge) boundary conditions. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 14(EGU2012-12156): 1 pp, more
  • Peer reviewed article Ibrahim, E.; Monbaliu, J. (2011). Suitability of spaceborne multispectral data for inter-tidal sediment characterization: A case study. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 92(3): 437-445. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2011.01.017, more
  • Ntegeka, V.; Decloedt, C.; Willems, P.; Monbaliu, J. (2013). Quantifying the impact of climate change from inland, coastal and surface conditions, in: Klijn, F. et al. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Flood Risk Management FLOODrisk2012, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 19-23 November 2012: Comprehensive flood risk management: research for policy and practice. pp. 103-111, more
  • Ntegeka, V.; Willems, P.; Monbaliu, J. (2011). Incorporating the correlation between upstream inland, downstream coastal and surface boundary conditions into climate scenarios for flood impact analysis along the river Scheldt. Poster at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 Vienna, Austria, 03 - 08 April 2011. KUL. Faculty of Engineering. Hydraulics Division: Leuven. 1 poster pp., more
  • Toorman, E. A.; Qilong, B. (2011). Dealing with benthic high-concentrated layers and fluid mud in cohesive sediment transport modeling, in: INTERCOH 11: the 11th International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes, Shanghai, China, October 18-21, 2011. Book of abstracts. pp. 85-86, more
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