Description du projet
Former de jeunes chercheurs aux défis côtiers
La montée du niveau des mers, exacerbée par le changement climatique, menace le tissu même des communautés côtières du monde entier. Alors que le réchauffement planétaire progresse parallèlement à des facteurs de risque naturels et à l’intensification de l’activité humaine, les mesures de protection traditionnelles contre les ondes de tempête s’avèrent insuffisantes. La convergence de ces défis exige un changement de mentalité en matière de modélisation côtière et de stratégies d’atténuation. Le projet RESCUER, soutenu par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, entend révolutionner la sécurité côtière en formant de jeunes chercheurs à diverses techniques de pointe, en s’appuyant sur des modèles multi-physiques, des avancées numériques et des technologies innovantes telles que la programmation par processeur graphique. L’objectif global du projet consiste à préserver les environnements côtiers, urbains, estuariens et fluviaux, offrant un phare de résilience face à l’escalade des menaces environnementales.
Objectif
The Doctoral Network (DN) “RESCUER“ (Resilient Solutions for Coastal, Urban, Estuarine and Riverine Environments) will focus on the training of young researchers (Fellows) in the general area of coastal oceanography, hydraulic and coastal engineering, applied mathematics, and scientific computation. The network will leverage advances in the numerical treatment of hydrodynamic equations in the past decade to create multi-physics models able to address pressing needs in practical modeling of various phenomena in the coastal zone with the goal of improving overall safety of coastal areas.
Ensuring the safety of property and commercial developments onshore and offshore requires an integrated approach, including phase-resolving wave modeling, tracking and mitigation of morphological changes, potential flooding in urban areas and monitoring of water quality. While protective structures and emergency plans for catastrophic storm waves and storm surges are well established, the confluence of global warming and sea level rise with other known natural risk factors and increasing human activity create a new set of hazards and requires new thinking in coastal modeling and the planning of mitigation strategies.
To address the challenges outlined above, we will rely on numerical techniques which are in each case tested against existing models and validated with experiments and field measurements. In our work with consulting companies and government agencies, we have identified a trend towards coupled models instead of traditionally used stand-alone models and a need for operational capabilities. These needs will be answered using new multi-physics models, state-of-the-art numerical methods, image recognition algorithms and innovative programming techniques such as GPU programming. The synergistic interplay of physical modelling, numerical analysis and large-scale simulation with lab experiments and field work plays an essential role in this network. Our project goes beyond the state of the art by improving existing numerical models, employing GPU programming and super-resolution techniques and building a unified suite of solvers that will allow us to address the multi-physics problems in coastal, estuarine, riverine and urban areas.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsmicroscopysuper resolution microscopy
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringcoastal and estuarine hydraulics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational sciencemultiphysics
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsnumerical analysis
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinateur
5020 Bergen
Norvège