Symposium 'Role of laboratory experiments in water and sediment dynamics research'

On the occasion of the opening of the Kraijenhoff van de Leur Laboratory for Water and Sediment Dynamics, a symposium is organized on the role of laboratory experiment in water and sediment dynamics research.

You are invited to consider, share and discuss different views on the topic with scientific experts in experimental research. Additionally, you are welcome to visit our campus and the new laboratory in a guided tour. This day includes lunch and drinks after the symposium and is free of charge.

Laboratory experiments in environmental fluid mechanics are being conducted from a variety of view angles. Physicists tend to focus on small-scale elementary mechanisms in fluids such as sediment-turbulence interactions, yielding parameterizations that may be used in numerical models. Engineers aim at dynamic similarity between the physics in the model and in the prototype. Earth scientists often relax that requisite, and are satisfied if the analogy between the laboratory experiments and real-world phenomena is convincing.

Key note speakers:

• Prof. Gary Parker, Depts. of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Geology University of Illinois Hydrosystems Laboratory (USA)
• Prof. Gerard Govers, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
• Prof. Peter Troch, Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona (USA)
• Prof. Jürgen Schmidt, Soil and Water Conservation Unit, Technical University Freiberg (Germany)
• Prof. Huib de Vriend, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Delft University of Technology and Deltares (The Netherlands)
• Prof. Jürgen Braun, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Stuttgart University (Germany)

Chairmen of the day: Prof. Wim Cofino and Prof. Peter de Ruiter, Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen UR.

Please find the full day schedule and registration information at www.watersedimentlab.wur.nl.

Organisation:
Environmental Sciences Group of Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre)
Chairgroups Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management, Land Degradation and Development and Soil Physics, Ecohydrology and Groundwater Quality

Contact: Bart Vermeulen, Maximiliano Sassi