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division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering is one of the
four divisions of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), the oldest department of the
Engineering School in AUTh. It covers all fields related to Water
and the Environment in both the Civil Engineering degree of AUTh
(with 220 students per year) and the research oriented Ph.D degree
(with approximately 8 post-graduate students per year).
There are four research groups within the division with the following
research interests: (a) Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, (b) Environmental
Engineering, (c) Water Resources Engineering and (d) Wave Mechanics
and Coastal Engineering. The laboratories of Hydraulics and Environmental
Engineering with advanced, modern instrumentation and laboratory
channels and basins support the above groups in their educational
and research activities. The research group in river and coastal
engineering consists of 3 staff members (3 professors), 3 research
associates with Ph.D degrees and 3 post-doctoral fellows. The group
supervises approximately 15 undergraduate students in their diploma
thesis every year and 6 Ph. D students. The current research activities
and experience of the group are in the following areas: ( a) Storm
surges (b) Computational modeling of breaking and non-breaking waves,
(c) Sediment transport in wave boundary layers and in the surf zone
(d) Waves-structures interaction (e) Laboratory and field measurements
of coastal processes (f) Design of harbors and coastal structures
(g) Flood wave propagation, (h) Surface-subsurface flow interaction.
There is a number of powerful workstations, personal computers
and also a possibility for using a super computer (high speed connection
via INTERNET/ATM to the CRAY of DEMOCRITUS Atomic Energy Research
Center). There is a specially developed software for pre- and post-processing,
graphical representations and video animation.
For further information visit the University of Thessaloniki website
on: www.civil.auth.gr
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