Instituto Universitario del Agua de la Universidad de Granada

PHYSICAL & COMputational limnology

Introduction

 

             The leader of the Physical & Computational Limnology group (LICOM, from the Spanish Limnología Física y Computacional) at the Institute is Francisco Rueda, Professor of Environmental Technology since 2007, and formerly research associate (Programa Ramón y Cajal), affiliated both to the Department of Civil Engineering and Instituto Universitartio del Agua. He earned his PhD degree at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California-Davis, under the supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Schladow (Environmental Dynamics Laboratory at UCDavis) and Prof. Stephen Monismith (Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University). After his PhD, he spent nearly two years working as a post-doctoral research associate under the supervision of Edwin Cowen, Defres Laboratory—School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Cornell University. He has collaborated in and / or leaded over 20 projects, most of them in collaboration with research institutions from United States.

 

             Our research focuses on the analysis, through field experiments and numerical computations, of the transport phenomena occurring in stratified water bodies. Of especial interest to us is the analysis of physical processes in inland water bodies as mechanisms exerting control over the biogeochemistry of these ecosystems. Lately, we are also getting involved in (1) the analysis of numerical algorithms used for the simulation of the internal dynamics of lakes and reservoirs, and (2) hydrologic studies aimed at predicting the fluxes of suspended and dissolved substances reaching reservoirs, from the contributing watershed.

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated on 05 March 2011