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Our interest focuses on developing knowledge and tools
for the modeling, simulation and analysis of transport processes of mass,
heat, energy and momentum in natural aquatic systems, particularly lakes,
reservoirs, estuaries, and coastal zones.
Our research is based on field studies, laboratory experiments,
and the development of simulation models. The scope of research topics
includes the structure of turbulence in surface water systems, thermo-hydrodynamic
processes in lakes and reservoirs, mixing processes, dispersion and salinity
intrusion in estuaries, mass exchange at the water-sediment interface
and gas exchange at the air-water interface, sediment transport and fluvial
morphology in rivers, and debries flow phenomena, among others. Based
on the interaction with researchers from the Ecological Sciences Department
of the University of Chile, we have extended our research to study some
aspects of the ecology of lakes and reservoirs, by applying integrated
models of physical, chemical and biological processes taking place in
these systems. We have applied our methods of analysis and models to study
a number of Chilean aquatic systems, including Rapel and Peñuelas
reservoirs, Chungará, Villarrica and Budi lakes and the estuaries
of Maipo and Valdivia rivers.
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Apr.,
2008