In 2014, na een pauze van 15 jaar, blies de Direction des Recherches Hydrauliques van SPW opnieuw leven in een bijeenkomst van hydraulici in België, getiteld Belgian Hydraulics day .
In 2015 wenste het Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium dit initiatief verder te zetten. Maandag 5 oktober verzamelden meer dan 70 hydraulici van heel België zich in het WL.
Deelnemers hadden de keuze uit drie sessies:
Sessie 1
- Sebastien Erpicum (Ulg): Towards a better understanding of flows over Piano key weirs
- Didier Bousmar (LRH Châtelet): Rebuilding the fish pass of Rivière: experimental and numerical studies
- David Gallach Sánchez (UGent): Experimental study of overtopping behaviour of steep low-crested coastal structures
- Jeroen Vercruysse (WL): Stilling basin design of combined inlet-outlet structures for flood control areas with controlled reduced tide
- Introductory presentation to scale model visit: Kristof Verelst (WL) + visit of physical model “Influence of breaking logs on flow patterns induced by lock filling with gate openings”.
Sessie 2
- Katrien Van Eerdenbrugh (UGent): BReach: A methodology for the asessment of data consistency in rating curve data
- Petrovic Dragana (ULB); Densitometric probe based on non-differential pressure: the technique allowing to follow suspended matter loads at very high concentrations
- Stéphan Creëlle (UGent): The importance of confluences in hydraulic network models of rivers and canals
- Emmanuel Cornet (WL) : Discharge measurements @ Flanders Hydraulics
- Elin Vanlierde (WL) : Sediment measurements @ Flanders Hydraulics + visit of measuring instruments Hydrological Information Centre
Sessie 3
- Sven Smolders (WL): The 3D unstructured SCALDIS model
- Boudewijn Decrop (UGent): Numerical and Experimental Modelling of Near-Field Overflow Dredging Plumes
- Sandra Soares-Frazão (UCL): Modelling fast transient flows and morphological evolution in rivers
- Laurent Schindfessel (UGent): Large-Eddy Simulations of an Open-Channel Confluence
- Patrick Luyten (KBIN -OD Natuur): COHERENS - a numerical tool for the management of the marine coastal environment
