Research in HYDRALAB Facilities
Transnational Access is traditionally a very important component in HYDRALAB. It offers research groups, that normally do not have access to unique or rare experimental facilities, the opportunity to carry out their research in selected facilities at different institutes across Europe. State-of-the-art measuring instruments, data-acquisition and processing systems are at their disposal, as well as modern support facilities. Coordination in research activities is also achieved through the Joint Research Activities. These HYDRALAB activities focus on the development of instrumentation facilities beyond the present state-of-the-art.
Below you find the results of several of the projects that have been carried out under our Transnational Access program. We have identified the following areas of hydraulic research topics:
Sediment
- Barrier Dynamics Experiments (BARDEX)
- Investigation into the physical relationships between water-worked gravel be armours and turbulent in-channel flow patterns
- Measurements of sand transport induced by skewed waves and currents - TRANSKEW
Structures
- Design of entrance platforms for offshore wind turbines
- Determination of relevant Parameters for the Alternative assessment of Intact Stability Weather Criterion on Experimental Basis
- Experimental study of the wave run-up along a vertical plate
- Ship Model Tests in Parametric Roll in Natural Head Seas
Waves
- Extreme Waves and Modulational INSTABILITY IN TWO HORIZONTAL DIMENSIONS
- Breaking wave impacts and non-breaking wave interactions with offshore wind turbine foundations
- Current and wind effects on wave run-up and wave overtopping (FlowDike)
- Dune overwash and breaching
- Effect of rotation on internal solitary waves
- Effect of rotation on massively separated turbulent flow
- EroGRASS: Failure of Grass Cover Layers at Seaward and Shoreward Dike Slopes
- ESDODDS: Experiments on Sediment Depth Of Disturbance (DoD) for beaches under the influence of Drainage Systems
- Experimental and Numerical Investigation of The Hydrodynamic Loads and Wave Elevation on Concentric Vertical Cylinders
- Experimental Assessment of the Parametric Rolling on a C11 Class Containership
- Experimental study of a random nonlinear wave field in a tank
- EXTREME WAVES IN DIRECTIONAL WAVE FIELDS TRAVERSING UNIFORM CURRENTS
- Generation of interfacial solitons by internal-wave beams
- Hydrodynamic loads on inflated floaters planning on water
- Hydrodynamic performance of the Anaconda wavepower device
- Infiltration and ex-filtration on beach face
- Large-scale measurements of extreme wave loadings on exposed jetties
- Measurement of wave-induced sand transport over rippled beds
- Measurements of the wave-induced steady currents outside the surf zone
- Nonlinear transfer of internal-tide energy and the effect of rotation: an experimental study on bottom reflection, subharmonic resonance, and scattering at a thermocline.
- Planetary waves over a linearly sloping bottom with rotation
- Slowly varying drift forces
- Slowly varying drift forces
- Swash zone response Under grouping Storm Conditions
- Wave drift forces and responses in deep water and extreme environmental conditions
- Wave Energy Converters
- Wave propagation over Posidonia Oceanica
Environment
- Characterising ‘Zonostrophic flow’ in b-plane Geostrophic Turbulence
- Evolution of coherent modes in the dynamics of planetary polar vortices
- Experimental investigation of the impact of macroalgal mats on intertidal sediment stability and flow dynamics in differing hydrodynamic conditions associated with tidal rise and fall
- Experiments investigating effects of bottom topography on gravity-driven surface currents simulating fresh water river discharges into the ocean.
- Experiments on vertical motions of rotating flows over variable topography
- Flow separation in sharp meander bends
- Hydrodynamic Drag Measurements of Riparian Woodland Trees and Shrubs
- Hydrodynamics and Pollutant Dispersion by Longshore Currents
- In detail investigation of planing pressure
- Island wakes
- Laboratory Simulation of Western Boundary Currents Over Shelf Topography and of Their Extensions
- Modelling Antarctic Flows
- Mountain induced rotors in stratified flows
- Quantifying the influence of plant traits and patchiness on self-organized coastal landscape formation via bio-physical interactions
- RIver – VEgetation interactions and Reproduction of Island Nuclei formation and Evolution - RIVERINE
- Role of genotypic and phenotypic (allelopathy) diversity of harmful algal blooms (HABs): case of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense
- Standing acoustic field testing
- Water column stratification, phytoplankton diversity and consequences for resource use and productivity
Ice
- Action of Ice Ridges on Subsea Production Systems
- Arctic Production and Tandem Offloading Terminal - ATOT
- Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics Using Experiments and Multi-scale Modelling
- Experimental Studies on Shear Failure of Freeze-Bonds in Model Ice
- Ice Actions on Conical Structures
- INTERICE 4
- Investigation of local ice loads and their dependence on mooring stiffness
- Model Tests in Ice with a Shoulder Ice Barrier
- Model Tests of Iceberg Towing
- Understanding the impact of a REduced ice Cover in the ARctic Ocean - RECARO
Oceanography
- Dynamics of planetary polar vortices: Barotropic instability and quasi-stable modes
- Investigation of vertical eddy fluxes under stable conditions in the surface boundary layer
- Near-Critical Orographic Forcing Of Stratified Flow
- The Behaviour of Dense Gravity Currents in a Rotating Channel
- The effect of interactions between iron and three different DOMs on the coastal phytoplankton community in a marine mesocosm.
Pipe Flow
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