SLIM (here considered as an overarching entity covering the marine research groups 'Research pole Environmental Sciences' and 'Applied Mechanics and Mathematics') at the Earth and Life Institute is interested in the development and application of multiscale coastal ocean models to simulate the dynamics of currents and waves, and the transport of oil, sediments, larvae and other biological materials. These models allow to achieve unprecedented accuracy to bring new insight into the physical and biological processes at play. SLIM is particularly interested in marine connectivity, environmental impact assessment and coastal vulnerability. They develop and apply the multi-scale coastal ocean model SLIM. SLIM is an unstructured-mesh hydrodynamic model that can seamlessly simulate flows from the river to the coastal ocean. It relies on the Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method to achieve high accuracy, even for very complex coastlines and bathymetry.
Parent institute: Université Catholique de Louvain; Earth and Life Institute; Research pole Environmental Sciences (UCL), more
Address: Croix du Sud, 2
Bâtiment de Serres - L7.05.24 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
Type: Scientific
1 Director: Head of the department
2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years.
3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
