Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory

Head of the laboratory

Fco. Jos? Vall?s Mor?n

Professor at the Hydraulic Engineering and Environment Department at UPV

Civil Engineer and PhD in Hydraulic Engineering and Environment from UPV. He is a researcher in the Hydraulics and Hydrology area at the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) in the UPV and head of the Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory in the same university. He is also the head of the Group IIAMA-UPV in the Spanish Hydraulics Laboratory Network (RLHE).

Professor at the School of Civil Engineering in Valencia since 2000. In this School, he has been Academic Organization vicedirector from 2008 to 2012 and Communication and Relationships vicedirector from 2012 to 2013. He teaches several courses in the Civil Engineering Bachelor and Masters programs and in the Hydraulic Engineering and Environment Master program.

He is a specialist in hydraulic design and modelling -both mathematical and physical reduced-, he has taken part in several projects and constructions for national and local ministries, departments and councils (Ministerios de Fomento y Medio Ambiente, la Conseller?a de Infraestructuras y Transportes, y varios Ayuntamientos (Valencia, Alicante, ?)), apart from the direct collaboration with many private companies in the sector. He is a professional with previous experience in construction and consultant companies. He has worked as a project engineer for more than 15 years, he is author or coauthor of more than 60 professional and research works and projects.

He is author of several research publications(articles, monographs, ?) and presentations in national and international congresses. Currently, he reviews scientific articles for the journal Tecnolog?a y Ciencias del Agua (JCR indexed) and assesses I+D+i competitive projects for the Agencia Nacional de Evaluaci?n y Prospectiva (ANEP) del Ministerio de Econom?a y Competitividad del Gobierno de Espa?a.

Researchers

Beatriz N?cher Rodr?guez

Born in Valencia, Civil Engineer from UPV in 2011, and MSc Degree in Hydraulics Engineering and Environment from UPV in 2012. She has been collaborating in the Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory with a scholarship since 2010, and she is currently hired as a researcher through the Generalitat Valenciana pre-PhD grant program: VALi+d.

She is a Phd student in the Water and Environmental Engineering PhD program at the UPV since 2012, studying local erosion phenomena in riverbed structures. Her research area is mainly focused in river engineering, sediment processes and river morphodynamics, but also in flood analysis and urban hydraulics.

Arnau Bay?n i Barrachina

Born in Valencia, MSc Degree in Hydraulics Engineering and Environment from UPV and MSc Degree in Fluid Mecahnics from the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Belgium) and PhD in Water Engineering and Environment from UPV. His PhD Thesis dealt with the numerical-experimental modeling of hydraulic structures, focusing on the use, development and validation of the open source code OpenFOAM.

Currently, he combines his research with his lecturing activity. In this respect, he teaches several courses on Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Facilities and Pollutant Dispersion as an assistant professor at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment in the UPV.

Juanfran Maci?n P?rez

Born in Valencia, Civil Engineer from UPV an MSc Degree in Environmental Water Management from Cranfield University (UK).

Currently, he develops his activity as a Phd student in the Water and Environmental Engineering PhD program at the UPV. He is currently hired as a researcher through the Generalitat Valenciana pre-PhD grant program, co-funded by European Social Funds. His research area covers different fields related to the hydraulics and the fluid mechanics. The objective of his research is mainly the hydraulic structures design using both, experimental methods and CFD techniques.

Laboratory technicians

Juan Carlos Edo Esteve

Born in Valencia, Laboratory technician with more than 20 years of experience. He is the responsible of the building and manteinance of physical models. He has done plenty of courses, covering many topics such as building techniques acquisition, materials and plans interpretation or occupational risk prevention.

His perfectionism is one of his most important atributes, his quality standards when building a model have made a valuable professional out of him. He joined the laboratory in 1992, so he is the most experienced member of the team. Among his multiple skills, the handling of different types of materials and tools for the realisation of reduced physical models can be highlighted.

Joaqu?n Oliver Castell?

Born in Cullera into a family with a vast knowledege about hydraulic facilities. Laboratory technician with more than 15 years of experience. He uses his knowledge in order to guarantee the right operation of hydraulic pumps, piping, channels and other hydraulic facilities in the laboratory. He is a technician trained in occupational risk prevention.

He joined the team in 1997, and he has always done a remarkable job handling different types of materials and tools for the realisation of reduced physical models, specially with regard to hydraulic feeding circuits.

Professors

The laboratory work is supported by professors (PDI) from both, the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) and the Hydraulic Engineering and Environment Department(DIHMA). Their own research areas widen the laboratory ones and they are in charge of teaching courses directly related to hydraulic engineering.

Juan Bautista Marco Segura

Juan B. Marco Segura holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and a MSc in Hydrology and Hydraulic Resources from Colorado State University. Full Professor in Hydraulic Engineering, he has been Director of Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Research Deputy, Head of Studies and, currently, he is in charge of International Relations at UPV's Civil Engineering faculty. As a researcher, he is head of the Hydraulic and Hydrology group at IIAMA.

As a professor at UPV's Civil Engineering School, he gives lectures on Hydraulics and Hydrology, Fluid Mechanics, Urban Drainage and Sewerage and Stochastic Hydrology. He was visiting Professor at Texas A&M University, Stanford University and Colorado State University, and has given specific lectures in several European and North American universities. His research focuses in several issues regarding Hydraulics, Urban Hydraulics, Hydrology, Water Resources Planning and Management and Irrigation Systems. His work in the field of floods is especially remarkable, from Risk Assessment to the design of channelization, protection works and spillways.

Professor Marco has supervised seventeen doctoral dissertations in his fields of study. Also, he is author of five books, twelve book chapters, and circa fifteen papers in national and international research journals, as well as numerous contributions to congresses. He has been director of the Scientific Committee at two national and one international Congress. He is reviewer of Water Science and Technology Journal, and Journal of Flood Risk Management.

Rafael Garc?a Bartual

Professor Rafael Garc?a Bartual holds a PhD in Civil from Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), and is full professor in the field of Hydraulic Engineering. He is also the Program Coordinator of the PhD in Water and Environmental Engineering at UPV. Among his research lines, the following should be highlighted: Statistics of Extremes in Hydrology, Stochastic Hydrology, Rainfall-runoff models, Urban Hydraulics, Artificial Neural Networks in Hydraulic Engineering, Operational Hydrology, Reservoir management and discharge predictions, and Computational Fluid Dynamics applied to hydraulic structures. Those lines have been developed throughout the years within the framework of different projects with engineering consulting firms, government administrations and national and international research programs.

Professor Bartual was visiting Professor in Kaiserslautern (Germany) and Cranfield (United Kingdom), and has been guest speaker in several European universities.

He was in charge of International Relations at UPV's Civil Engineering faculty. He has supervised eight doctoral dissertations and sixty eight Master and Bachelor thesis. He has participated in 24 research projects (13 as Principal Investigator). Also, he is author of thrity two research publications (including papers and book chapters), and fifty contributions to congresses.

Petra Amparo L?pez Jim?nez

Professor Amparo L?pez is Bachelor in Combined Engineering from Coventry Polytechnic University (United Kingdom) since 1992, Industrial Engineer from UPV?s Industrial Engineering School since 1994, and holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia since 2001.

Ever since Professor L?pez started her professional activity, she belongs to the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department, where she has been deputy director since 2008. Her research within this Department is developed in the field of hydraulic engineering, modelling of fluid mechanics processes and pollutant dispersion. Author of forty eight publications, twenty seven of them SCI, as well as numerous contributions to congresses and book chapters. She has supervised three doctoral theses, all of them Graduated With Honors.

Since 1996, Professor L?pez gives lectures in hydraulic engineering related courses, both in Bachelor and Master?s degrees. Currently, she is accredited to a Full Professor Position at UPV.

Pascual Abad Moreno

Pascual Abad Moreno graduated Civil Engineer from Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1989, and is currently Associate Professor in the field of Hydraulic Engineering at this university.

His university teaching is conducted at the School of Civil Engineering at UPV, in the courses of Hydraulics and River Engineering, and has collaborated in several projects with the Hydraulics Laboratory, from its very beginning. At the same time, he teaches Project Management in the Master's Degree in Planning and Management in Civil Engineering at UPV. Furthermore, he has supervised more than forty Bachelor final dissertations.

He has been Technical Director at IVA-LEYING, S.A., Technical Director at EGEVASA, and Construction Manager at Aguas de Valencia Group. Currently, he is Partner and Managing Director at INTERCONTROL LEVANTE, S.A.

As for his professional activity, he has been developing his career for more than twenty five years in two main fields: consulting and quality control of civil engineering works, and construction and operation of hydraulic works. In particular, he has work on drafting and management of all kind of projects related with hydraulics (dams, river channelization, Wastewater Treatment Plants, Drinking Water Supply ?), for the regional and national public administration.

Amparo Moreno Dur?

Amparo Moreno Dur? graduated Civil Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia. She is Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering at UPV, within the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department. As a researcher, she is part of the Hydraulic and Hydrology group at the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA).

Besides her academic activity, she develops her professional career at the company Intercontrol Levante, S.A., in the area of Hydraulic Resources. Her working lines deal with hydraulic engineering and hydrology, and she has conducted national and international projects and studies.

Professor Moreno has also collaborated in many research projects, both with private companies and government administrations, related with physical and mathematical hydraulic modelling. Regarding her research profile, she is author of technical papers in the field of 2D hydraulic modelling.

Manuel G. Membrillera

Manuel G. Membrillera is 40 years old and currently Professor on Hydraulic and Hydrology Engineering at UPV (Valencia Polytechnic University). In addition, he?s also Chief Technology Officer of the company OFITECO.

He holds a PhD degree in Civil Engineering, is a registered Project Management Professional (PMP)?, and has professional experience mostly dedicated to dam safety and risk analysis, hydropower, dam monitoring, flood management, and hydraulic works. He's worked as a consultant in numerous projects related with 180 Spanish dams and 14 dams abroad (in Venezuela, Algeria, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Austria, Italy, and Poland); he has participated or participates in the construction of five large dams.

He has worked on six research projects for the Spanish Government and the European Union, is the author of 2 full-length books, and co-author of 2 chapters in other books, 7 research journal articles and 45 conference papers or articles. On the other hand, he?s been a speaker or panelist at 20 national and international conferences or symposiums whereas, from an academic point of view, he?s organized or participated as a teacher in 22 courses or conferences in universities or professional associations.

In addition, he?s member of the Spanish Association of Civil Engineers, a Fellow Member of the Spanish Committee on Large Dams, and also chairman of the AUSIGETI Committee on Hydraulic Works (AUSIGETI is the Spanish National Association of Monitoring and Systems for the Technical Management of Infrastructures).

Ignacio Andr?s Dom?nech

Eduardo Albentosa Hern?ndez

Miguel ?ngel Eguibar Gal?n

External collaborators

Daniel Valero Huerta

Born in Barcelona, he works in different projects related to numerical modelling and free surface flow physics, such as energy disipators and highly aerated flows in spillways. Civil Engineer and MSc Degree in Hydraulics Engineering and Environment at UPV, where he has worked as a researcher for the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA).

Currently he is a researcher in FH Achen (Germany). His main research area is CFD application to multiphase flow, turbulence modelling and hydraulic structures optimisation. In order to do this, he works with the specific software FLOW-3D and high speed cameras to perform digital image processing. Moreover, he teaches courses related to free surface flow and CFD in FH Aachen.

Pedro Mill?n Romero

Civil Engineer at UPV in 2010, and MSc Degree in Hydraulics Engineering and Environment at UPV in 2013. He started his career in the Hydraulic engineering Laboratory developing both, 1D and 2D mathematical models in the river engineering area and reduced physical models for hydraulic cosntructions.

Currently he works as a consultant engineer for a private company.