FLUMEN - Dinàmica Fluvial i Enginyeria Hidrològica

 

FLUMEN és un institut universitari de recerca de titularitat mixta entre la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya i el Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria. FLUMEN té com objecte desenvolupar activitats de recerca, assessorament, formació i transferència de tecnologia en els camps de la Dinàmica Fluvial i de l'Enginyeria Hidrològica. FLUMEN fou creat per la Generalitat de Catalunya mitjançant l'ordre ECO/305/2012 de 3 d'octubre (DOGC de 17 d'octubre de 2012).

The group's main goal is research and consultation in river dynamics and surface hydrology. For over fifteen years, the group has worked in R&D in these areas. At present, the consolidated working lines are as follows:
1) Urban hydrology. Large-scale rainwater drainage systems and flooding in urban environments.
2) The effect of reservoirs on natural river behaviour.
3) Impact of infrastructures on natural hydrological characteristics.
4) Floods and measures for minimising the risk of inundation.
5) River restoration.
6) Physical limnology of reservoirs.
7) Dam hydraulics.
8) Design and automation of channels.
A further objective is to organise a multidisciplinary team in river dynamics. Ten years ago, the group began to cooperate with members of the Department of Ecology at the University of Barcelona. The cooperation is based on lecturing, PhD supervision, scientific publications, research projects and consulting. UPC and the UB have recently signed a framework agreement that aims to strengthen t

The group's main goal is research and consultation in river dynamics and surface hydrology. For over fifteen years, the group has worked in R&D in these areas. At present, the consolidated working lines are as follows:
1) Urban hydrology. Large-scale rainwater drainage systems and flooding in urban environments.
2) The effect of reservoirs on natural river behaviour.
3) Impact of infrastructures on natural hydrological characteristics.
4) Floods and measures for minimising the risk of inundation.
5) River restoration.
6) Physical limnology of reservoirs.
7) Dam hydraulics.
8) Design and automation of channels.
A further objective is to organise a multidisciplinary team in river dynamics. Ten years ago, the group began to cooperate with members of the Department of Ecology at the University of Barcelona. The cooperation is based on lecturing, PhD supervision, scientific publications, research projects and consulting. UPC and the UB have recently signed a framework agreement that aims to strengthen t

Recent Submissions

  • La presa de la Llosa del Cavall. Estudio en modelo reducido del funcionamiento hidráulico del aliviadero y del cuenco reparador 

    Dolz Ripollès, Josep; Berga Casafont, Luis; Da Costa Pereira, Mario (1990)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    En esta comunicación se presentan los resultados obtenidos en el estudio en modelo reducido del aliviadero y cuenco amortiguador de la presa de La Llosa del Cavall, que actualmente se construye en el río Cardener (principal ...

  • IberWQ: new simulation tool for 2D water quality modelling in rivers and shallow estuaries 

    Cea Gómez, Luis; Bermúdez Hermida, Marta María; Puertas Agudo, Jerónimo; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Corestein, Georgina; Escolano Tercero, Enrique; Conde Vázquez, André; Bockelmann Evans, B.; Ahmadian, R. (2016-09)
    Article
    Open Access
    This paper presents a new freeware simulation tool (IberWQ) for 2D water quality modelling in rivers and non-stratified estuaries. The model computes the spatial and temporal evolution of several species and variables which ...

  • Physical modeling of a stepped spillway without sidewalls 

    Estrella Toral, Soledad; Sánchez Juny, Martí; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Dolz Ripollès, Josep (2015-05)
    Article
    Open Access
    The interest of a consulting company in designing stepped spillways in roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams led us to propose the possibility of building this type of spillway without sidewalls. Previous research on stepped ...

  • Large wood transport-related flood risks analysis of Lourdes city using iber-wood model 

    Quiniou, Margaux; Piton, Guillaume; Ruiz-Villanueva, Virginia; Perrin, Cédric; Savatier, Jérémy; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest (Springer, 2022)
    Part of book or chapter of book
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    Large wood (LW) accumulations can cause several damages, especially if the recruited wood is transported during floods down to urban areas, like Lourdes (France). One of the most serious problems concerning bridges and ...

  • Iber v3: manual de referencia e interfaz de usuario de las nuevas implementaciones 

    Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Cea Gómez, Luis; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Lopez Gomez, David; Sañudo Costoya, Esteban; Corestein Poupeau, Georgina; García Alén, Gonzalo; Aragón Hernández, José Luis (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2022)
    Book
    Open Access
    Iber is a two-dimensional hydraulic model for the simulation of free surface flow in rivers and estuaries, and the simulation of environmental processes in fluvial hydraulics. Since the release of the first version of Iber, ...

  • A machine learning-based surrogate model for the identification of risk zones due to off-stream reservoir failure 

    Silva Cancino, Nathalia; Salazar González, Fernando; Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest (2022-08)
    Article
    Open Access
    Approximately 70,000 Spanish off-stream reservoirs, many of them irrigation ponds, need to be evaluated in terms of their potential hazard to comply with the new national Regulation of the Hydraulic Public Domain. This ...

  • Extension of 2D shallow water models to hydrological modelling 

    Cea, Luis; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; García Feal, Orlando; Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Gómez Gesteira, Moncho; Farfán Durán, Juan Fernando (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022)
    Conference report
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    In this paper we discuss some critical aspects that should be considered in order to extend and apply a numerical model based on the 2D shallow water equations(2D-SWE) to distributed hydrological modelling. We also detail ...

  • A machine learning-based surrogate model for the identification of risk zones due to off-stream reservoir failure 

    Silva Cancino, Nathalia; Salazar González, Fernando; Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022)
    Conference report
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    With the modification of the Regulations of the Hydraulic Public Domain of Spain in 2008, approximately 70.000 owners of off-stream reservoirs are obligated to present a classification assessment on the potential risk due ...

  • Modeling pressurized flow through hydraulic structures and bridges using a 2D-SWE-based model 

    Sanz Ramos, Marcos; López Núñez, Alejandro; Cea, Luis; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022)
    Conference report
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    Two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic models solve the Shallow Water Equations (SWE) for the simulation of free surface flows. The necessity of considering in the calculations specific hydraulic structures, such as bridges, gates, ...

  • Discrepancies on the spilled volume in the Aznalcóllar mine disaster 

    Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Dolz Ripollès, Josep (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022)
    Conference lecture
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    The failure of the pond that stored the tailing of the mining activity of Aznalcóllar (1998) supposed one of the most catastrophic mine disasters ever worldwide. More than 400 scientific publications, including two special ...

  • 'SUDS-lineales' para reducir el riesgo de inundación considerando escenarios de Cambio Climático 

    Olivares Cerpa, Gonzalo; Russo, Beniamino; Martínez Puentes, Montse; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Sanz Ramos, Marcos (2022-04)
    Article
    Open Access
    Los Sistemas Urbanos de Drenaje Sostenible (SUDS) suponen una alternativa válida para dar solución a diversos problemas del drenaje urbano. Su aplicación, generalmente de carácter puntual, es limitada y puede no ser efectiva ...

  • Revisiting the hydraulics of the Aznalcóllar mine disaster 

    Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Dolz Ripollès, Josep; Sánchez Juny, Martí (2022-06)
    Article
    Open Access
    The Aznalcóllar tailings pond failure (1998) is regarded as one of the severe ecological mine disasters ever reported. The spill of the mine tailings affected more than 60 km of the Agrio and Guadiamar rivers and caused ...

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