LIM/UPC - Laboratori d'Enginyeria Marítima

 

El LIM/UPC (Dept. Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental de l'ETSECCPB) està format per investigadors altament qualificats i de disciplines tecnicocientífiques diverses. Les línies de treball són: hidrodinàmica costanera i estuariana, clima i qualitat del medi ambient marí, física i enginyeria oceanogràfiques, enginyeria i morfologia costanera, enginyeria portuària, i gestió de la zona costanera i els recursos costaners.
El LIM/UPC ha desenvolupat un avançat conjunt de models numèrics i disposa d’una infraestructura de laboratori i camp per al vessant experimental dels projectes desenvolupats (destaca el canal d’onatge ICTS-CIEM, tercer en importància a la UE).

El LIM / UPC (Dpto Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental de la ETSECCPB) está formado por investigadores altamente cualificados y de disciplinas técnico-científicas diversas. Las líneas de trabajo son: hidrodinámica costera y estuárica, clima y calidad del medio ambiente marino, física e ingeniería oceanográficas, ingeniería y morfología costera, ingeniería portuaria, y gestión de la zona costera y los recursos costeros.
El LIM / UPC ha desarrollado un avanzado conjunto de modelos numéricos y dispone de una infraestructura de laboratorio y campo para la vertiente experimental de los proyectos desarrollados (destaca el canal de oleaje ICTS-CIEM, tercero en importancia en la UE).

The Maritime Engineering Laboratory (LIM/UPC) of the Technical University of Catalonia has long-standing experience in the field of maritime engineering. It is a unit of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona. The LIM/UPC is made up of a team of highly qualified professionals who have solid experience and come from different technical and scientific disciplines (mathematics, physics, geology, civil engineering, oceanography, etc.), who are organised into specialised workgroups that are well-coordinated among themselves. This enables a naturally multidisciplinary approach to the services offered. The basic aims are to undertake basic and applied research, to develop oceanographic and maritime technology, to draw up training programmes for different levels and to organise dissemination activities in the maritime and coastal engineering fields. The main research lines are coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, maritime environment climate.

The Maritime Engineering Laboratory (LIM/UPC) of the Technical University of Catalonia has long-standing experience in the field of maritime engineering. It is a unit of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona. The LIM/UPC is made up of a team of highly qualified professionals who have solid experience and come from different technical and scientific disciplines (mathematics, physics, geology, civil engineering, oceanography, etc.), who are organised into specialised workgroups that are well-coordinated among themselves. This enables a naturally multidisciplinary approach to the services offered. The basic aims are to undertake basic and applied research, to develop oceanographic and maritime technology, to draw up training programmes for different levels and to organise dissemination activities in the maritime and coastal engineering fields. The main research lines are coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, maritime environment climate.

Recent Submissions

  • Adaptation under extreme events: predictive maintenance for risk reduction 

    Sánchez-Arcilla Rosanas, Agustín; Altomare, Corrado; González Pérez, Manuel; Viñes Recasens, Manuel; Mösso Aranda, César; Gómez Aguar, Jesús Javier; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2022-11)
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    Increasing human and climatic pressures on coastal systems and their infrastructure has resulted in cumulative loses for ecosystem services (e.g. Sanchez-Arcilla et al, 2022) and increasing degradation of coastal and ...

  • Measuring free surface elevation of shoaling waves with pressure transducers 

    Marino, Massimiliano; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Musumeci, Rosaria Ester (Elsevier, 2022-08)
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    An assessment of formulas to recover wave surface elevation from pressure measurements was carried out in the present study. The investigation focused on the formulas’ performance in the shoaling region, i.e. where the ...

  • On adaptive unscented Kalman filtering for floating Doppler wind-lidar motion correction: Effect of the number of lidar measurement heights 

    Salcedo Bosch, Andreu; Rocadenbosch Burillo, Francisco; Sospedra Iglesias, Joaquim (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This work studies the influence of the number of lidar measurement heights on the performance of the floating Doppler wind lidar motion-correction algorithm, recently published by the authors. The work is in the context ...

  • Floating lidar assessment of atmospheric stability in the North Sea 

    Silva, Marcos Paulo Araujo da; Rocadenbosch Burillo, Francisco; Farré Guarné, Joan; Salcedo Bosch, Andreu; González Marco, Daniel; Peña Diaz, Alfredo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference report
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    In this work, the 2D parametric-solver algorithm [1] used to assess atmospheric stability from floating Doppler wind lidar (FDWL) measurements is revisited. The algorithm performance is studied using data from IJmuiden ...

  • Enhanced dual filter for floating wind lidar motion correction: The impact of wind and initial scan phase models 

    Salcedo Bosch, Andreu; Rocadenbosch Burillo, Francisco; Sospedra Iglesias, Joaquim (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-09-21)
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    Open Access
    An enhanced filter for floating Doppler wind lidar motion correction is presented. The filter relies on an unscented Kalman filter prototype for floating-lidar motion correction without access to the internal line-of-sight ...

  • Barriers and enablers for upscaling coastal restoration 

    Sánchez Arcilla, Agustín; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Le Roux, Xavier; Hinkel, Jochen; Schuerch, Mark; Nicholls, Robert J.; Otero, Maria del Mar; Staneva, Joanna; de Vries, Mindert; Pernice, Umberto; Briere, Christophe; Caiola, Nuno; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Ibañez, Carles; Torresan, Silvia (Elsevier, 2022-12)
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    Coastal restoration is often distrusted and, at best, implemented at small scales, which hampers its potential for coastal adaptation. Present technical, economic and management barriers stem from sectoral and poorly ...

  • Relationship between eroded volume and main scour hole dimensions near quay walls caused by internal counter-rotating twin-propellers 

    Curulli, Giuseppe; Llull Marroig, Antoni Ignaci; Penna, Nadia; Mujal Colilles, Anna; Gironella Cobos, Xavier; Sánchez Arcilla, Agustín; Gaudio, Roberto (2022-07-14)
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    Open Access
    The present study aims at computing and analysing the eroded sediment volumes induced by twin-propeller jets near a vertical quay wall from the main geometric characteristics of the scour hole. Two different scouring ...

  • Wave overtopping at near-vertical seawalls: influence of foreshore evolution during storms 

    Briganti, Riccardo; Musumeci, Rosaria Ester; Van der Meer, Jentsje; Romano, Alessandro; Stancanelli, Laura Maria; Kudella, Matthias; Akbar, Rizki; Mukhdiar, Ryard; Altomare, Corrado; Suzuki, Tomohiro; De Girolamo, Paolo; Besio, Giovanni; Dodd, Nicholas; Zhu, Fangfang; Schimmels, Stefan (2022-10)
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    This work presents the results of an investigation on how wave overtopping at a near-vertical seawall at the back of a sandy foreshore is influenced by sequences of erosive storms. The experiments were carried out in the ...

  • Near-bed sediment transport during offshore bar migration in large-scale experiments 

    Grossmann, Florian; Hurther, David; Van der Zanden, Joep; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Alsina Torrent, José María (2022-05)
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    Open Access
    This study presents novel insights into hydrodynamics and sediment fluxes in large-scale laboratory experiments with bichromatic wave groups on a relatively steep initial beach slope (1:15). An Acoustic Concentration and ...

  • Effects of extreme climatic events on the hydrological parameters of the estuarine waters of the Amazon coast 

    Rodriguez da Costa, Adila Kelly; Cajueiro Carneiro Pereira, Luci; Jiménez Quintana, José Antonio; Gomes de Oliveira, Antonio Rafael; Flores Montes, Manuel de Jesus; da Costa, Rauquírio Marinho (2022-09)
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    Oscillations in rainfall levels are one of the principal factors that determine seasonal shifts in physicochemical and hydrobiological variables, and exceptional climate events can have an enormous effect on the characteristics ...

  • Beach profile changes induced by surrogate Posidonia Oceanica: laboratory experiments 

    Astudillo Gutiérrez, Carlos Salvador; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2022-08)
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    New flume experiments with surrogate seagrass meadows are presented. The experiments included the creation of a full-scale and realistic Posidonia Oceanica model to evaluate the effect over wave attenuation, sediment ...

  • Low-cost tracking system to infer fishing activity from small scale fisheries in Scotland 

    Mujal Colilles, Anna; Mendo, Tania; Swift, Rene; James, Mark; Crowe, Swithun; McCann, Patrick (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
    Conference report
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    Large Scale Fisheries (LSF), with Length Over All (LOA) larger than 12 to 15 m are gener- ally subject to national and international regulations that require they carry some form of tracking system that is capable of ...

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