SWAM: Sea, Waves, And ecosysteMs: Stochastic models for perturbed marine environments

Project Summary

This partner team brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts in fields such as stochastic analysis, numerical probabilities, fluid mechanics, ocean engineering, and ecology.

The main objective is to address the current challenges related to the installation of desalination plants and their possible impact on ocean dynamics, thus affecting the composition and distribution of species in the surrounding aquatic ecosystems. 

The two issues at stake involve different scales of time and space. On the one hand, an analysis will be carried out using stochastic models on a large time scale to study potentially threatened species in certain coastal areas. On the other hand, desalination plants interact with the marine environment through seawater pumping points and brine discharge points into the sea. This downloading process occurs on a much shorter time scale. 

However, it is essential to understand how the brine generated during the internal plant process is dispersed and/or accumulated, and how it can potentially disturb the flow. For this aspect, we intend to develop CFD simulation tools to analyze the variability and sensitivity of the response, based on the stochastic Lagrangian approach and the SDM code developed in CALISTO.

In France

• Mireille Bossy, researcher, SWAM coordinator, project-team CALISTO, Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur, Inria

• Jérémie Bec, researcher, CNRS, project-team CALISTO, Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur, Inria

• Laëtitia Giraldi, researcher, project-team CALISTO, Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur, Inria

• Christophe Henry, researcher, project-team CALISTO, Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur, Inria

• Paul Maurer, PhD student, project-team CALISTO, Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur, Inria

In Chile 

• Kerlyns Martínez, researcher, SWAM coordinator, Universidad de Concepción

• Pablo Córdova, researcher, Laboratorio de Modelación Física del Océano, Universidad de Valparaíso

• Hector Olivero, researcher, Universidad de Valparaíso

• Patricio Winckler, researcher, CIGIDEN, Universidad de Valparaíso

• Eduardo Gutiérrez-Turner, PhD student, Universidad de Valparaíso

Other participants

• María Isidora Ávila Thieme, postdoctoral researcher, SECOS, ACS, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Mara Freilich, researcher, Brown University

• Pablo Marquet, researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Rolando Rebolledo, researcher, Universidad de Valparaíso

• Joaquín Fontbona, researcher, Universidad de Chile

• Giorgio Krstulovic, researcher, Laboratoire J-L Lagrange, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

• Sergio Navarrete, researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas (ECIM)

• Inria Chile and Universidad de Valparaíso strengthen ties looking to the future of science and technology and sign a framework cooperation agreement

• Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2023 brought together more than 300 French and Chilean researchers in three regions of Chile