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6th IAHR Young Professionals Congress
3-5 December 2025 | Online
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Programme
Times in CET
Day 1 | Wednesday, December 3, 2025
10:00 - 10:30 CET | Opening of the 6th IAHR Young Professionals Congress
Philippe Gourbesville, IAHR President
Michael Nones, Chair of the Organising Committee of the 6th IAHR Young Professionals Congress and Chair of IAHR Committee on Education and Professional Development
Yifan Yang, Co-Chair of the Organising Committee of the 6th IAHR Young Professionals Congress and Member of IAHR Committee on Education and Professional Development
Universite Cote D'Azur (UCA),
France
Institute of Geophysics,
Poland
Wuhan University
China
10:30 - 12:00 CET | Climate Change Adaptation and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Roberto Ranzi and Ramesh Teegavarapu from the IAHR Technical Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
12:00 - 13:30 CET | Climate Change Adaptation II & Groundwater and Coffee Break with mentors
Chair: Lucija Plantak from UNESCO Groudwater Youth Network
13:30 - 15:00 CET | Hydraulic Structures + Industrial Flow and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Sean Mulligan, Valentin Heller and Jose Carrillo from IAHR Technical Committee of Hydraulic Structures
15:00 - 16:30 CET | Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics I and Coffee Break with mentors
16:30 - 18:00 CET | Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics II + Marine Outfalls
Chair: Majid Mohammadian from IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Outfall Systems
Day 2 | Thursday, December 4, 2025
10:00 - 11:30 CET | Urban Drainage and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Manfred Kleidorfer from IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Urban Drainage and Rosario Arnau from IWA Young Professionals
11:30 - 13:00 CET | Fluid Mechanics & Fluvial Hydraulics I and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Claudia Adduce from IAHR Technical Committee on Fluid Mechanics and Donatella Termini from IAHR Technical Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
13:00 - 14:00 CET | Keynote lecture : "Horseshoe Vortex Characteristics Near Bed-Mounted Inclined Cylinders"
Bed-mounted inclined cylinders have important applications across different fields of engineering. They are commonly seen in structural supports and offshore platforms. This experimental study investigates the influence of the inclination of bed-mounted cylinders on the horseshoe vortex (HSV) generated around them. To this end, the flow past vertical (VC), backward-inclined (BIC), and forward-inclined (FIC) cylinders were studied using the same fully-developed approach flow. Velocity fields upstream of the cylinder-bed junction were measured using particle image velocimetry at a Reynolds number based on cylinder diameter of 26,000. Mean flow analysis revealed well-defined...Read more
University of Windsor
UK
Chairs: Michael Nones / Yifan Yang
14:00 - 15:30 CET | Fluid Mechanics & Fluvial Hydraulics II and Coffee Break with mentors
Chair: Thorsten Stoesser and Zhihua Xie from IAHR Technical Committee on Fluid Mechanics
15:30 - 17:00 CET | Experimental Methods and Instrumentation & Ecohydraulics and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Rui Aleixo and Slaven Conevski from IAHR Technical Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation and Monica Basilio and Hannah Schwedhelm from Ecoenet
17:00 -18:30 CET | Flood Risk Management I
Chair: Stefan Haun and Dhruvesh Patel from IAHR Technical Committee on Flood Risk Management
Day 3 | Friday, December 5, 2025
10:00 - 11:30 CET | Water Resources Management I and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Daisuke Nohara and Satoru Oishi from IAHR Technical Committee on Water Resources Management
11:30 - 13:00 CET | Water Resources Management II and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Daisuke Nohara and Satoru Oishi from IAHR Technical Committee on Water Resources Management
13:00 - 14:00 CET | Keynote lecture "A High-Resolution National Database of River Widths from Remote Sensing and Cloud-Based Image Processing"
A high-resolution database of river widths was developed for Canadian rivers through advanced remote sensing techniques and cloud-based image processing. By integrating Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite imagery, cloud processing, and automated GIS methods, river widths were systematically measured across 9,500,000 square-kilometers of diverse Canadian landscapes, providing unprecedented spatial and temporal detail. Using the presented methods, large-scale...Read more
University of Ottawa
Canada
Chair: Michael Nones / Yifan Yang
14:00 - 15:30 CET | Flood Risk Management II and Coffee Break with mentors
Chairs: Stefan Haun and Quian Yu from IAHR Technical Committee on Flood Risk Management
15:30 - 17:00 CET | Hydroinformatics & Global Water Security and Coffee Break with mentors
Chair: Isa Ebtehaj and Duan Chen from IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
17:00 - 17:15 CET | Closing session
Chair: Michael Nones, Chair of the Organising Committee of the 6th IAHR Young Professionals Congress
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