Peer-reviewed publications

PhD Theses

• Hanert E., 2004, Towards a Finite Element Ocean Circulation Model (pdf)
• Legrand S., 2006, Maillages non-structurés en modélisation marine (pdf)
• White L., 2007, Accuracy and Consistency in Finite Element Ocean Modeling (pdf)
• Bernard P.-E., 2008, Discontinuous Galerkin methods for geophysical flow modeling (pdf)
• Blaise S., 2009, Development of a Finite Element marine model (pdf)
• Comblen R., 2010, Discontinuous finite element methods for two- and three-dimensional marine flows (pdf)
• Lambrechts J., 2011, Finite elements methods for coastal flows: application to the Great Barrier Reef (pdf)
• Lietaer O., 2011, Finite element methods for sea ice modeling (pdf)
• de Brye B., 2011, Multiscale finite-element modelling of river-sea continua (pdf)
• Gourgue O., 2011, Finite element modeling of sediment dynamics in the Scheldt (pdf)
• Kärnä T., 2012, Development of a baroclinic discontinuous Galerkin finite element model for estuarine and coastal flows (pdf)
• Bouillon S., 2013, Sea ice rheologies for large-scale models (pdf)

Published papers

• Legrand S., V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2000, Delaunay mesh generation for an unstructured-grid ocean general circulation model, Ocean Modelling, 2, 17-28 (Article)
• Hanert E., V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2002, A comparison of three finite elements to solve the linear shallow water equations, Ocean Modelling, 5, 17-35 (Article)
• Hanert E., D.Y. Le Roux, V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2004, Advection schemes for unstructured grid ocean modelling, Ocean Modelling, 7, 39-58 (Article)
• Pietrzak J., E. Deleersnijder and J. Schroeter (Editors), 2005, The Second International Workshop on Unstructured Mesh Numerical Modelling of Coastal, Shelf and Ocean Flows (Delft, The Netherlands, September 23-25, 2003), Ocean Modelling (special issue), 10, 1-252 (Preface pp. 1-3) (Article)
• Le Roux D.Y., Sène A., V. Rostand and E. Hanert, 2005, On some spurious modes issues in shallow water models using a linear algebra approach, Ocean Modelling, 10, 83-94 (Article)
• Hanert E., D.Y. Le Roux, V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2005, An efficient Eulerian finite element for the shallow water equations, Ocean Modelling, 10, 115-136 (Article)
• Vancoppenolle M., T. Fichefet and C.M. Bitz, 2005, On the sensitivity of undeformed Arctic sea ice to its vertical salinity profile, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L16502, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023427 (Article)
• Burchard H., E. Deleersnijder and A. Meister, 2005, Application of modified Patankar schemes to stiff biogeochemical models for the water column, Ocean Dynamics, 55, 326-337 (Article)
• Hanert E., E. Deleersnijder and V. Legat, 2006, An adaptive finite element water column model using the Mellor-Yamada level 2.5 turbulence closure scheme, Ocean Modelling, 12, 205-223 (Article - Erratum)
• White L., J.-M. Beckers, E. Deleersnijder and V. Legat, 2006, Comparison of free-surface and rigid-lid finite element models of barotropic instabilities, Ocean Dynamics, 56, 86-103 (Article)
• Hanert E. and V. Legat, 2006, How to save a bad element with weak boundary conditions, Computers & Fluids, 35, 477-484 (Article)
• Legrand S., E. Deleersnijder, E. Hanert, V. Legat and E. Wolanski, 2006, High-resolution, unstructured meshes for hydrodynamic models of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 68, 36-46 (Article)
• White L., V. Legat, E. Deleersnijder and D. Le Roux, 2006, A one-dimensional benchmark for the propagation of Poincaré waves, Ocean Modelling, 15, 101-123 (Article)
• Vancoppenolle M., T. Fichefet and C.M. Bitz, 2006, Modeling the salinity profile of undeformed Arctic sea ice, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L21501, (Article)
• Bernard P.-E., N. Chevaugeon, V. Legat, E. Deleersnijder and J.-F. Remacle, 2007, High-order h-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for ocean modeling, Ocean Dynamics, 57, 109-121 (+ Erratum, 2007, 57, 579-580) (Article - Erratum)
• Hanert E., E. Deleersnijder, S. Blaise and J.-F. Remacle, 2007, Capturing the bottom boundary layer in finite element ocean models, Ocean Modelling, 17, 153-162 (Article)
• Delhez E.J.M. and E. Deleersnijder, 2007, Overshootings and spurious oscillations caused by biharmonic mixing, Ocean Modelling, 17, 183-198 (Article)
• Vancoppenolle M., C.M. Bitz and T. Fichefet, 2007, Summer landfast sea ice desalination at Point Barrow, Alaska: Modeling and observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(C4), C04022,(Article)
• Legrand S., E. Deleersnijder, E.J.M. Delhez and V. Legat, 2007, Unstructured, anisotropic mesh generation for the Northwestern European continental shelf, the continental slope and the neighbouring ocean, Continental Shelf Research, 27, 1344-1356 (Article)
• Spivakovskaya D., A.W. Heemink and E. Deleersnijder, 2007, Lagrangian modelling of multi-dimensional advection-diffusion with space-varying diffusivities: theory and idealized test cases, Ocean Dynamics, 57, 189-203 (Article)
• Gourgue O., E. Deleersnijder and L. White, 2007, Toward a generic method for studying water renewal, with application to the epilimnion of Lake Tanganyika, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 74, 628-640 (Article)
• White L. and E. Deleersnijder, 2007, Diagnoses of vertical transport in a three-dimensional finite-element model of the tidal circulation around an island, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 74, 655-669 (Article)
• Blaise S., E. Deleersnijder, L. White and J.-F. Remacle, 2007, Influence of the turbulence closure scheme on the finite-element simulation of the upwelling in the wake of a shallow-water island, Continental Shelf Research, 27, 2329-2345 (Article)
• Bernard P.-E., E. Deleersnijder, V. Legat and J.-F. Remacle, 2008, Dispersion analysis of discontinuous Galerkin schemes applied to Poincaré, Kelvin and Rossby waves, Journal of Scientific Computing, 34, 26-47 (Article)
• White L., V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2008, Tracer conservation for three-dimensional, finite-element, free-surface, ocean modeling on moving prismatic meshes, Monthly Weather Review, 136, 420-442 (Article)
• White L. and E. Wolanski, 2008, Flow separation and vertical motions in a tidal flow interacting with a shallow-water island, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 77, 457-466 (Article)
• White L., E. Deleersnijder and V. Legat, 2008, A three-dimensional unstructured mesh finite element shallow-water model, with application to the flows around an island and in a wind-driven, elongated basin, Ocean Modelling, 22, 26-47 (Article)
• 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)
• Lietaer O., T. Fichefet and V. Legat, 2008, The effects of resolving the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a finite element sea ice model, Ocean Modelling, 24, 140-152 (Article)
• Blaise S. and E. Deleersnijder, 2008, Improving the parameterisation of horizontal density gradient in one-dimensional water column models for estuarine circulation, Ocean Science, 4, 239-246 (Article)
• Deleersnijder E. and P.F.J. Lermusiaux (Editors), 2008, Multi-scale Modeling: Nested-Grid and Unstructured-Mesh Approaches, in: Ocean Dynamics (special issue), 58, 335-498 (Special issue)
• 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)
• Vancoppenolle M., T. Fichefet, H. Goosse, S. Bouillon, G. Madec and M.A. Morales Maqueda, 2009, Simulating the mass balance and salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 1. Model description and validation, Ocean Modelling, 27, 33-53 (Article)
• Vancoppenolle M., T. Fichefet and H. Goosse, 2009, Simulating the mass balance and salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 2. Sensitivity to salinity processes, Ocean Modelling, 27, 54-69 (Article)
• Bouillon S., M.A. Morales Maqueda, V. Legat and T. Fichefet, 2009, An elastic-viscous-plastic sea ice model formulated on Arakawa B and C grids, Ocean Modelling, 27, 174-184 (Article)
• Bernard P.-E., J.-F. Remacle and V. Legat, 2009, Boundary dicretization for high-order discontinuous Galerkin computations of tidal flows around shallow water islands, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 59, 535-557 (Article)
• Bernard P.-E., J.-F. Remacle and V. Legat, 2009, Modal analysis on unstructured meshes of the dispersion properties of the P1NC-P1 pair, Ocean Modelling, 28, 2-11 (Article)
• Comblen R., S. Legrand, E. Deleersnijder and V. Legat, 2009, A finite element method for solving the shallow water equations on the sphere, Ocean Modelling, 28, 12-23 (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)
• Bernard P.-E., J.-F. Remacle, R. Comblen, V. Legat and K. Hillewaert, 2009, High-order discontinuous Galerkin schemes on general 2D manifolds applied to the shallow water equations, Journal of Computational Physics, 228, 6514-6535 (Article)
• Munday P., J. Leis, J. Lough, C. Paris, M. Kingsford, M. Berumen and J. Lambrechts, 2009, Climate change and coral reef connectivity, Coral Reefs, 28, 379-395. (Article)
• Gourgue O., R. Comblen, J. Lambrechts, T. Kärnä, V. Legat, E. Deleersnijder, 2009, A flux-limiting wetting-drying method for finite-element shallow-water models, with application to the Scheldt Estuary, Advances in Water Resources, 32, 1726-1739 (Article)
• Griffies S.M., A.J. Adcroft, H. Banks, C.W. Böning, E.P. Chassignet, G. Danabasoglu, S. Danilov, E. Deleersnijder, H. Drange, M.H. England, B. Fox-Kemper, R. Gerdes, A. Gnanadesikan, R.J. Greatbatch, R.W. Hallberg, E. Hanert, M.J. Harrison, S.A. Legg, C.M. Little, G. Madec, S. Marsland, M. Nikurashin, A. Pirani, H.L. Simmons, J. Schröter, B.L. Samuels, A.-M. Treguier, J.R. Toggweiler, H. Tsujino, G.K. Vallis and L. White, Problems and prospects in large-scale ocean circulation models, in: J. Hall, D.E. Harrison and D. Stammer (Eds.), Proceedings of the OceanObs'09 Conference: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009), ESA Publication WPP-306 (Article)
• Kärnä T., E. Deleersnijder and A. de Brauwere, 2010, Simple test cases for validating a finite element unstructured grid fecal bacteria transport model, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 34, 3055-3070 (Article)
• Comblen R., J. Lambrechts, J.-F. Remacle and V. Legat, 2010, Practical evaluation of five partly discontinuous finite element pairs for the non-conservative shallow water equations, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 63, 701-724 (Article)
• de Brye B., A. de Brauwere, O. Gourgue, T. Kärnä, J. Lambrechts, R. Comblen and E. Deleersnijder, 2010, A finite-element, multi-scale model of the Scheldt tributaries, River, Estuary and ROFI, Coastal Engineering, 57, 850-863 (Article)
• Blaise S., B. de Brye, A. de Brauwere, E. Deleersnijder, E. J. M. Delhez and R. Comblen, 2010, Capturing the residence time boundary layer - Application to the Scheldt Estuary, Ocean Dynamics, 60, 535-554 (Article)
• Lambrechts J., C. Humphrey, L. McKinna, O. Gourgue, K.E. Fabricius, A.J. Mehta, S. Lewis and E. Wolanski, 2010, Importance of wave-induced bed liquefaction in the fine sediment budget of Cleveland Bay, Great Barrier Reef, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 89, 154-162 (Article)
• Deleersnijder E., V. Legat and P.F.J. Lermusiaux (Editors), 2010, Multi-scale Modelling of Coastal, Shelf and Global Ocean Dynamics, in: Ocean Dynamics, 60, 1357-1637 (Special issue)
• Blaise S., R. Comblen, V. Legat, J.-F. Remacle, E. Deleersnijder and J. Lambrechts, 2010, A discontinuous finite element baroclinic marine model on unstructured prismatic meshes. Part I: space discretization, Ocean Dynamics, 60, 1371-1393 (Article)
• Comblen R., S. Blaise, V. Legat, J.-F. Remacle, E. Deleersnider and J. Lambrechts, 2010, A discontinuous finite element baroclinic marine model on unstructured prismatic meshes. Part II: implicit/explicit time discretization, Ocean Dynamics, 60, 1395-1414 (Article)
• de Brauwere, B. de Brye, S. Blaise and E. Deleersnijder, 2011, Residence time, exposure time and connectivity in the Scheldt Estuary, Journal of Marine Systems, 84, 85-95 (Article)
• Kärnä T., B. de Brye, O. Gourgue, J. Lambrechts, R. Comblen, V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2011, A fully implicit wetting-drying method for DG-FEM shallow water models, with an application to the Scheldt Estuary, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 200, 509-524 (Article)
• Gourgue O., E. Deleersnijder, V. Legat, E. Marchal and L. White, 2011, Free and forced thermocline oscillations in Lake Tanganyika, in: P. Alpert and T. Sholokhman (Eds.), Factor Separation in the Atmosphere: Applications and Future Prospects, Cambridge University Press, pp. 146-162
• Hamann M., A. Grech, E. Wolanski and J. Lambrechts, 2011, Modelling the fate of marine turtle hatchlings, Ecological Modelling, 222, 1515-1521 (Article)
• de Brauwere A., B. de Brye, P. Servais, J. Passerat and E. Deleersnijder, 2011, Modelling Escherichia coli concentrations in the tidal Scheldt river and estuary, Water Research, 45, 2724-2738 (Article)
• de Brye B., S. Schellen, M. Sassi, B. Vermeulen, T. Kärnä, E. Deleersnijder and T. Hoitink, 2011, Preliminary results of a finite-element, multi-scale model of the Mahakam Delta (Indonesia), Ocean Dynamics, 61, 1107-1120 (Article)
• Shah S.H.A.M., A.W. Heemink and E. Deleersnijder, 2011, Assessing Lagrangian schemes for simulating diffusion on non-flat isopycnal surfaces, Ocean Modelling, 39, 351-361(Article)
• Andutta F.P., P.V. Ridd and E. Wolanski, 2011, Dynamics of hypersaline coastal waters in the Great Barrier Reef, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 94, 299-305 (Article)
• Lietaer O., E. Deleersnijder, T. Fichefet, M. Vancoppenolle, R. Comblen, S. Bouillon and V. Legat, 2011, The vertical age profile in sea ice: theory and numerical results, Ocean Modelling, 40, 211-226 (Article)
• Sassi M.G., A.J.F. Hoitink, B. de Brye and E. Deleersnijder, 2011, Toward an extension of the hydraulic geometry concept to include tidally influenced delta channel networks, River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2011), 6-8 September 2011,  Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, pp 483-492
• Pham Van C., B. Spinewine, B. de Brye, S. Soares-Frazao, E. Deleersnijder, M.G. Sassi, H. Hidayat and A.J.F. Hoitink, 2011, Multiscale modeling of a tidal estuary with a finite-element shallow-water model: application to salinity intrusion into the Mahakam delta (Indonesia), River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2011), 6-8 September 2011,  Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, pp 1068-1081
• Sassi M.G., A.J.F. Hoitink, B. De Brye, B. Vermeulen and E. Deleersnijder, 2011, Tidal impact on the division of river discharge over distributary channels in the Mahakam Delta, Ocean Dynamics, 61, 2211-2228 (Article)
• de Brye B., A. de Brauwere, O. Gourgue, E.J.M. Delhez and E. Deleersnijder, 2012, Water renewal timescales in the Scheldt Estuary, Journal of Marine Systems, 94, 74-86 (Article)
• Kärnä T., V. Legat, E. Deleersnijder and H. Burchard, 2012, Coupling of a discontinuous Galerkin finite element marine model with a finite difference turbulence closure model, Ocean Modelling, 47, 55-64 (Article)
• Gräwe U., E. Deleersnijder, S.H.A.M. Shah and A.W. Heemink, 2012, Why the Euler-scheme in particle-tracking is not enough: the shallow-sea pycnocline test-case, Ocean Dynamics, 62, 501-514 (Article)
• Sassi M.G., A.J.F. Hoitink, B. de Brye and E. Deleersnijder, 2012, Downstream hydraulic geometry of a tidally influenced river delta, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 117, F04022 (Article)
• Andutta F.P., M.J. Kingsford and E. Wolanski, 2012, 'Sticky water' enables the retention of larvae in a reef mosaic, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 101, 54-63 (Article)
• Kärnä T., V. Legat and E. Deleersnijder, 2013, A baroclinic discontinuous Galerkin finite element model for coastal flows, Ocean Modelling, 61, 1-20 (Article)
• Seny B., J. Lambrechts, R. Comblen, V. Legat and J.-F. Remacle, 2013, Multirate time stepping for accelerating explicit discontinuous Galerkin computations with application to geophysical flows, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 71, 41-64 (Article)
• Andutta F.P., P.V. Ridd and E. Wolanski, 2013, The age and the flushing time of the Great Barrier Reef waters, Continental Shelf Research, 53, 11-19 (Article)

Accepted papers

• Gourgue O., W. Baeyens, M.S. Chen, A. de Brauwere, B. de Brye, E. Deleersnijder, M. Elskens and V. Legat, A depth-averaged two-dimensional sediment transport model for environmental studies in the Scheldt Estuary and tidal river network, Journal of Marine Systems (accepted for publication)  
• Shah S.H.A.M., A.W. Heemink, U. Gräwe and E. Deleersnijder, Adaptive time stepping algorithm for Lagrangian transport models: theory and idealised test cases, Ocean Modelling (accepted for publication)

Submitted papers

• Wolanski E., J. Lambrechts, C.J. Thomas and E. Deleersnijder, The net water circulation through Torres Strait, Continental Shelf Research (submitted)
• Pestiaux A., S.A. Melchior, J.-F. Remacle, T. Kärnä, T. Fichefet and J. Lambrechts, Discontinuous Galerkin discretization of a strongly anisotropic diffusion operator, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (submitted)
• Seny B., J. Lambrechts, T. Toulorge, V. Legat and J.-F. Remacle, An efficient parallel implementation of explicit multirate Runge-Kutta schemes for discontinuous Galerkin computations, Journal of Computational Physics (submitted)
• de Brauwere A., O. Gourgue, B. de Brye, P. Servais, N.K. Ouattara and E. Deleersnijder, Integrated modelling of faecal contamination in a densely populated river-sea continuum (Scheldt River and Estuary), Science of the Total Environment (submitted)