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Page last updated: 26/05/2008
The research areas of Hydraulics, Hydraulic Constructions and Hydrology, and Sanitary Engineering were the founding sectors of the Department. Professors and researchers, together with doctoral students, compose a well consolidated group.
In the first branch - Hydraulics - can be included research on a theoretical and an applied base, relating to typical issues of hydraulics in mountain areas, such as fluvial dynamics, debris flows, morphological evolution of rivers, sediment transport and erosion processes.
The Hydraulic Constructions and Hydrology branch studies the mechanisms controlling flow of water in the terrestrial component of the hydrological cycle and the outputs of the research have relevant applicative uses for the management and protection of water resources and to prevent floods.
The third sector - Sanitary
Engineering - carries out research on the quality of
drinking and natural water, on wastewater treatment by means of
advanced technologies (bio-membrane etc.), and on the treatment
of urban solid waste.
The Atmospheric
Physics group studies the atmospheric dynamics focusing
on phenomena occurring in mountain areas and valleys and on physical
processes in the atmospheric boundary layer. It also studies the
historical series of meteorological variables in order to identify
the climate dynamics.
The Applied
Mathematics, Engineering
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Transformation
Processes Engineering groups play an important transversal
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