Jonathan Lambrechts

PhD student in applied mechanics
Research Fellow with the Belgian Fund for Research in Industry and Agriculture (FNRS-FRIA)
Department of Mechanical Engineering (applied mechanics - MEMA)

Université catholique de Louvain
Centre for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME)
Avenue George Lemaître, 4
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Tel. +32 (0)10 47 80 26
jonathan.lambrechts@uclouvain.be

Research overview

Within the SLIM group, a project aiming to develop a ocean general circulation model on an unstructured grid, my research is focused on :

Adapting the gmsh mesh generator for the ocean and continental seas
Developing the core components of the SLIM model
Using this model to study the circulation in the Great Barrier Reef (Australia)

Publications

Lambrechts J., E. Hanert, E. Deleersnijder, P.-E. Bernard, V. Legat, J.-F. Remacle and E. Wolanski, 2008, A multi-scale model of the hydrodynamics of the whole Great Barrier Reef, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 79, 143-151 (Article)
Lambrechts J., R. Comblen, V. Legat, C. Geuzaine and J.-F. Remacle, 2008, Multiscale mesh generation on the sphere, Ocean Dynamics, 58, 461-473 (Article)
de Brauwere A., F. De Ridder, O. Gourgue, J. Lambrechts, R. Comblen, R. Pintelon, J. Passerat, P. Servais, M. Elskens, W. Baeyens, T. Kärnä, B. de Brye and E. Deleersnijder, 2009, Design of a sampling strategy to optimally calibrate a reactive transport model: exploring the potential for Escherichia coli in the Scheldt Estuary, Environmental Modelling & Software, 24, 969-981 (Article)
Munday P., J. Leis, J. Lough, C. Paris, M. Kingsford, M. Berumen and J. Lambrechts, Climate change and coral reef connectivity, Coral Reefs (accepted for publication) (Article)
Comblen R., J. Lambrechts, J.-F. Remacle and V. Legat, Practical evaluation of five partly-discontinuous finite element pairs for the non-conservative shallow water equations, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (accepted for publication)
Gourgue O., R. Comblen, J. Lambrechts, T. Kärnä, V. Legat, E. Deleersnijder, A flux-limiting wetting-drying method for finite-element shallow-water models, with application to the Scheldt Estuary, Advances in Water Resources (submitted)