Publications

Scherpereel, C., Alosairi, Y., Lambrechts, J., & Hanert, E. (2025). Hydrodynamic impacts of bridge construction and land reclamation on water residence time and flushing processes in Kuwait Bay. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 214, 117716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.117716 Download

Hirsh, H. K., Oliver, T. A., Dobbelaere, T., Palacio-Castro, A. M., Barkley, H. C., Webb, A. E., Hanert, E., & Enochs, I. C. (2025). Statistical Prediction of In Situ Coral Reef Carbonate Dynamics Using Endmember Chemistry, Hydrodynamic Models, And Benthic Composition. Aquatic Geochemistry, 31(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10498-025-09438-x Download

Heggy, E., Abotalib, A. Z., You, J., Hanert, E., & Ramah, M. (2024). Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam can generate sustainable hydropower while minimizing downstream water deficit during prolonged droughts. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01821-w Download

Ramah, M., Heggy, E., Nasr, A., Toni, M., Gomaa, M. M., Hanert, E., & Kotb, A. (2024). Nubian aquifer linkage to the High Aswan Dam Reservoir: Initial assessments of processes and challenges. Journal of Hydrology, 644, 131999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131999 Download

Dobbelaere, T., Holstein, D. M., Gramer, L. J., McEachron, L., & Hanert, E. (2024). Investigating the link between the Port of Miami dredging and the onset of the stony coral tissue loss disease epidemics. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 207, 116886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116886 Download

Dobbelaere, T., Dekens, A., Saint‐Amand, A., Alaerts, L., Holstein, D. M., & Hanert, E. (2024). Hurricanes enhance coral connectivity but also superspread coral diseases. Global Change Biology, 30(6), e17382. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17382 Download

Lecart, M., Dobbelaere, T., Alaerts, L., Randresihaja, N. R., Mohammed, A. V., Vethamony, P., & Hanert, E. (2024). Land reclamation and its consequences: A 40-year analysis of water residence time in Doha Bay, Qatar. PLOS ONE, 19(1), e0296715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296715 Download

Faryuni, I. D., Saint-Amand, A., Dobbelaere, T., Umar, W., Jompa, J., Moore, A. M., & Hanert, E. (2024). Assessing coral reef conservation planning in Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia) from larval connectivity networks. Coral Reefs, 43, 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02443-y Download

Saint-Amand, A., Lambrechts, J., & Hanert, E. (2023). Biophysical models resolution affects coral connectivity estimates. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 9414. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36158-5 Download

Purkis, S. J., Oehlert, A. M., Dobbelaere, T., Hanert, E., & Harris, P. (Mitch). (2023). Always a White Christmas in the Bahamas: temperature and hydrodynamics localize winter mud production on Great Bahama Bank. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 93(3), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2022.066 Download

Anselain, T., Heggy, E., Dobbelaere, T., & Hanert, E. (2023). Qatar Peninsula’s vulnerability to oil spills and its implications for the global gas supply. Nature Sustainability, 6, 273–283. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01037-w Download

King, S., Saint-Amand, A., Walker, B. K., Hanert, E., & Figueiredo, J. (2023). Larval dispersal patterns and connectivity of Acropora on Florida’s Coral Reef and its implications for restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1038463. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1038463 Download

Saint-Amand, A., Lambrechts, J., Thomas, C., & Hanert, E. (2023). How fine is fine enough? Effect of mesh resolution on hydrodynamic simulations in coral reef environments. Ocean Modelling, 186, 102254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102254 Download

Sampurno, J., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2023). Integrated machine learning and GIS-based bathtub models to assess the future flood risk in the Kapuas River Delta, Indonesia. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(1), 113–125. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2022.106 Download

Verhofstede, A., Dobbelaere, T., Harlay, J., & Hanert, E. (2023). Seychelles Plateau’s oil spill vulnerability. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 196, 115652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115652 Download

Hanert, E., Mohammed, A. V., Veerasingam, S., Dobbelaere, T., Vallaeys, V., & Vethamony, P. (2023). A multiscale ocean modelling system for the central Arabian/Persian Gulf: From regional to structure scale circulation patterns. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 282, 108230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108230 Download

Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Integrated hydrodynamic and machine learning models for compound flooding prediction in a data-scarce estuarine delta. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 29(3), 301–315. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-301-2022 Download

Alaerts, L., Dobbelaere, T., Gravinese, P. M., & Hanert, E. (2022). Climate Change Will Fragment Florida Stone Crab Communities. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 839767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.839767 Download

Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Modeling interactions between tides, storm surges, and river discharges in the Kapuas River delta. Biogeosciences, 19(10), 2741–2757. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2741-2022 Download

Saint-Amand, A., Grech, A., Choukroun, S., & Hanert, E. (2022). Quantifying the environmental impact of a major coal mine project on the adjacent Great Barrier Reef ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 179, 113656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113656 Download

Dobbelaere, T., Holstein, D. M., Muller, E. M., Gramer, L. J., McEachron, L., Williams, S. D., & Hanert, E. (2022). Connecting the Dots: Transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease From the Marquesas to the Dry Tortugas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 778938. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.778938 Download

Farhadi, A., & Hanert, E. (2022). Front Propagation of Exponentially Truncated Fractional-Order Epidemics. Fractal and Fractional, 6(2), 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract6020053 Download

Lopez‐Gamundi, C., Dobbelaere, T., Hanert, E., Harris, P. M., Eberli, G., & Purkis, S. J. (2022). Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms. Sedimentology, 69(7), 2693–2714. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13020 Download

Dobbelaere, T., Curcic, M., Le Hénaff, M., & Hanert, E. (2022). Impacts of Hurricane Irma (2017) on wave-induced ocean transport processes. Ocean Modelling, 171, 101947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2022.101947 Download

Farhadi, A., & Hanert, E. (2022). A fractional diffusion model of CD8+ T cells response to parasitic infection in the brain. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, 17, 3. https://doi.org/10.1051/mmnp/2022003 Download

Figueiredo, J., Thomas, C. J., Deleersnijder, E., Lambrechts, J., Baird, A. H., Connolly, S. R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations. Nature Climate Change, 12, 83–87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01248-7 Download

Gonay, L., Spourquet, C., Baudoin, M., Lepers, L., Lemoine, P., Fletcher, A. G., Hanert, E., & Pierreux, C. E. (2021). Modelling of Epithelial Growth, Fission and Lumen Formation During Embryonic Thyroid Development: A Combination of Computational and Experimental Approaches. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.655862 Download

Vallaeys, V., Lambrechts, J., Delandmeter, P., Pätsch, J., Spitzy, A., Hanert, E., & Deleersnijder, E. (2021). Understanding the circulation in the deep, micro-tidal and strongly stratified Congo River estuary. Ocean Modelling, 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101890 Download

Duquesne, F., Vallaeys, V., Vidaurre, P. J., & Hanert, E. (2021). A coupled ecohydrodynamic model to predict algal blooms in Lake Titicaca. Ecological Modelling, 440, 109418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109418 Download

Frys, C., Saint-Amand, A., Le Hénaff, M., Figueiredo, J., Kuba, A., Walker, B., Lambrechts, J., Vallaeys, V., Vincent, D., & Hanert, E. (2020). Fine-Scale Coral Connectivity Pathways in the Florida Reef Tract: Implications for Conservation and Restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00312 Download

Dobbelaere, T., Muller, Erinn, Gramer, Lewis, Holstein, Daniel, & Hanert, E. (2020). Coupled Epidemio-Hydrodynamic Modeling to Understand the Spread of a Deadly Coral Disease in Florida. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.591881 Download

Fox-Kemper, B., Adcroft, A., Böning, C. W., Chassignet, E. P., Curchitser, E., Danabasoglu, G., Eden, C., England, M. H., Gerdes, R., Greatbatch, R. J., Griffies, S. M., Hallberg, R. W., Hanert, E., Heimbach, P., Hewitt, H. T., Hill, C. N., Komuro, Y., Legg, S., Le Sommer, J., … Yeager, S. G. (2019). Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00065 Download

Gérard, C., Di-Luoffo, M., Gonay, L., Caruso, S., Couchy, G., Loriot, A., Castven, D., Tao, J., Konobrocka, K., Cordi, S., Monga, S. P., Hanert, E., Marquardt, J. U., Zucman-Rossi, J., & Lemaigre, F. P. (2019). Dynamics and predicted drug response of a gene network linking dedifferentiation with beta-catenin dysfunction in hepatocellular carcinoma. Journal of Hepatology, 71(2), 323–332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2019.03.024 Download

Grech, A., Hanert, E., McKenzie, L., Rasheed, M., Thomas, C., Tol, S., Wang, M., Waycott, M., Wolter, J., & Coles, R. (2018). Predicting the cumulative effect of multiple disturbances on seagrass connectivity. Global Change Biology, 24(7), 3093–3104. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14127 Download

Vallaeys, V., Kärnä, T., Delandmeter, P., Lambrechts, J., Baptista, A. M., Deleersnijder, E., & Hanert, E. (2018). Discontinuous Galerkin modeling of the Columbia River’s coupled estuary-plume dynamics. Ocean Modelling, 124, 111–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.02.004 Download

Vallaeys, V., Tyson, R. C., Lane, W. D., Deleersnijder, E., & Hanert, E. (2017). A Lévy-flight diffusion model to predict transgenic pollen dispersal. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 14(126), 20160889. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.0889 Download

Grech, A., Wolter, J., Coles, R., McKenzie, L., Rasheed, M., Thomas, C., Waycott, M., & Hanert, E. (2016). Spatial patterns of seagrass dispersal and settlement. Diversity and Distributions, 22(11), 1150–1162. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12479 Download

Le Bars, Y., Vallaeys, V., Deleersnijder, É., Hanert, E., Carrere, L., & Channelière, C. (2016). Unstructured-mesh modeling of the Congo river-to-sea continuum. Ocean Dynamics, 66(4), 589–603. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-016-0939-x Download

Thomas, C. J., Bridge, T. C. L., Figueiredo, J., Deleersnijder, E., & Hanert, E. (2015). Connectivity between submerged and near-sea-surface coral reefs: can submerged reef populations act as refuges? Diversity and Distributions, 21(10), 1254–1266. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12360 Download

De Maet, T., Cornaton, F., & Hanert, E. (2015). A scalable coupled surface–subsurface flow model. Computers & Fluids, 116, 74–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.03.028 Download

De Maet, T., Hanert, E., & Vanclooster, M. (2014). A fully-explicit discontinuous Galerkin hydrodynamic model for variably-saturated porous media. Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, 26(4), 594–607. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(14)60067-6 Download

Hanert, E., & Piret, C. (2014). A Chebyshev PseudoSpectral Method to Solve the Space-Time Tempered Fractional Diffusion Equation. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 36(4), A1797–A1812. https://doi.org/10.1137/130927292 Download

Thomas, C. J., Lambrechts, J., Wolanski, E., Traag, V. A., Blondel, V. D., Deleersnijder, E., & Hanert, E. (2014). Numerical modelling and graph theory tools to study ecological connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef. Ecological Modelling, 272, 160–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.10.002 Download

Hennion, M., & Hanert, E. (2013). How to avoid unbounded drug accumulation with fractional pharmacokinetics. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, 40(6), 691–700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10928-013-9340-2 Download

Piret, C., & Hanert, E. (2013). A radial basis functions method for fractional diffusion equations. Journal of Computational Physics, 238, 71–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.10.041 Download

Le Roux, D. Y., Walters, R., Hanert, E., & Pietrzak, J. (2012). A comparison of the GWCE and mixed P1nc−P1 formulations in finite-element linearized shallow-water models. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 68(12), 1497–1523. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.2540 Download

Hanert, E. (2012). Front dynamics in a two-species competition model driven by Lévy flights. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 300, 134–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.01.022 Download

Hanert, E. (2011). On the numerical solution of space–time fractional diffusion models. Computers & Fluids, 46(1), 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.08.010 Download

Hanert, E., Schumacher, E., & Deleersnijder, E. (2011). Front dynamics in fractional-order epidemic models. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 279(1), 9–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.03.012 Download

Van den Hoof, C., Hanert, E., & Vidale, P. L. (2011). Simulating dynamic crop growth with an adapted land surface model – JULES-SUCROS: Model development and validation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151(2), 137–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.09.011 Download

Saint-Amand, A. (2022). Bridging the gap between small and large spatial scales in marine dispersal modelling - Applications to coral ecosystems in the Great Barrier Reef [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

Sampurno, J. (2022). Combining process-based and data-based approaches to predict high water levels: Application to the city of Pontianak in the Kapuas River delta [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

Farhadi, A. (2022). Fractional diffusion models for epidemiological and immunological applications [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

Dobbelaere, T. (2022). Modeling local and regional dispersion of stressors in Florida’s Coral Reef [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

Gonay, L. (2021). Mathematical modelling of epithelial growth, fission and lumen formation during embryonic thyroid development: A combination of computational and experimental approaches [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

Vallaeys, V. (2018). Discontinuous Galerkin finite element modelling of estuarine and plume dynamics [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

De Maet, T. (2018). Discontinuous Galerkin models for coupled surface-subsurface flow [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download

Thomas, C. (2015). Modelling marine connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef and exploring its ecological implications [PhD thesis]. UCLouvain. Download