Hydraulic, Maritime & Environmental Engineering
Laboratory of Maritime Engineering (LIM/UPC)
The Maritime Engineering Laboratory of UPC-BarcelonaTech is a non-profit public research entity. Its objectives are the generation and transfer of knowledge and technology, research and the training of highly qualified professionals and researchers in the field of maritime engineering and marine sciences.
Laboratory of Environmental Engineering (GEMMA)
Associated with the GEMMA Research Group, it develops research and teaching activities in two laboratories, with a surface area of about 150 m2, which are distributed in a laboratory for the analysis of physicochemical and microbiological parameters, an environmental engineering laboratory with experimental prototypes and an adjacent workshop for the manufacture of experimental systems.
Laboratory of River Morphodynamics I
Located in Building D1 of the North Campus, it consists of two facilities, called Sediment Ditch (140 l/s) and High Slope Canal (0-30o and 50 l/s). In the laboratory, reduced-scale models of bridge piers, abutments, submerged panels and macro-roughness are made. Basic concepts such as the beginning of particle movement, bed stability, bed morphodynamics, debris flows, sediment avalanches, dam failure, impulse waves and other important phenomena in natural disasters are studied. Advanced visualization and reconstruction techniques of water and sediment surfaces, ADV speedometers and high-speed cameras are used.
Laboratory of River Morphodynamics II
Located in the Agrópolis Building, it consists of 3 testing areas called, El Cubo (360 l/s), Delta (tides and deltas 50 l/s) and Dunes (50 l/s). In this laboratory, techniques of protection against erosion in bridge piers and other elements of the river, the protection against erosion in high mountain streams, the formation of deltas and the formation of tidal flows, the morphodynamics of flow bifurcations, submerged panels with solid transport, dune dynamics are studied among others.
Laboratory of Hydraulics & Fluid Mechanics (FLUMEN)
The Flumen Institute's Laboratory of Hydraulics & Fluid Mechanics dedicates an important part of its activity to the creation of an experimental infrastructure in the laboratory and in the field within the area of hydrology and fluvial dynamics. It has 800 m2 of useful surface and 0.25 m3/s of flow.
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