About

The scientific interest of Ana M. Ricardo in water resources related subjects has been growing since 2007 when she started her master thesis project on hydrodynamics of flows within vegetated. Since then, she has developed a strong autonomy in laboratory experiments employing laser-based instrumentation (PIV and LDA) and in fundamental research on environmental fluid mechanics. Ana M. Ricardo has the understanding that her research interests are well aligned with the growing environmental concerns relatively to ecology and water quality of freshwater systems. Ana M. Ricardo concluded her PhD, entitled “Hydrodynamics of turbulent flows within arrays of circular cylinders”, in January 2014 through a Joint PhD program IST-EPFL. Since June 2014, Ana M. Ricardo is a researcher at CERIS and have been working, mainly, on transport processes by flows in wetlands. Currently, she participates actively in four research projects being the principal investigator of one project. Thematically, these projects cover research on mixing in storage tanks for safer water supply (IMiST); advection and diffusion of suspended sediments from wildfires in rough open channel flows (ASHES); curating and assimilating crowdsourced and authoritative data to reduce uncertainty in river flow modelling (RiverCure); exchange flows driven by wind and temperature in lake-wetland interfaces (WinTherface).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Rivers Experimental Fluid Mechanics Particle Image Velocimetry Fluid MechanicsHydrodynamics Fluid Turbulence Turbulent Flow Turbulence Environmental Engineering Fluid Dynamics

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