Vincent Legat
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

Louvain School of Engineering
Université catholique de Louvain

E-mail: vincent(dot)legat(at)uclouvain(dot)be
http://vincent.legat.eu/

  Avenue Georges Lemaître, 4,
  B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  Secretariat: +32 10 47 23 50, Fax: +32 10 47 21 80

My research field is computational physics applied to materials engineering, fluid mechanics, oceanography and integrated modeling of natural and anthropogenic effects. The basic objective is the development of mathematical models and numerical tools for predicting the behaviour of complex systems. I also started a research work in unstructured-mesh numerical oceanography. Though ocean modelling made huge progress since Bryan's pioneering work, the basic aspects of most models have remained similar to those of Bryan's: finite difference techniques are still implemented on structured grids. Unstructured mesh offer much more flexibility than structured ones. Since it is most probably impossible to modify step by step a structured-grid model to obtain an unstructured-grid one, a revolution -- rather than an evolution -- is needed in ocean model design, paving the way for the second generation of ocean models.

SLIM : Second-generation Louvain-la-neuve Ice-ocean Model
TIMOTHY : Tracing and Integrated Modeling of Natural and Anthropogenic Effects on Hydrosystems