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Prolongation ISO 9001:2008 Certificate - (September 2010) |
Svašek Hydraulics has (again) been approved by Lloyds's Register Quality Assurance to the
Quality Management System Standards NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2008. The Lloyds auditor reported "
...the management systeem of Svašek Hydraulics fully meets the requirements of the standards."
View certificate.
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"GOLD" at 470 World Championship 2010 for Berkhout/Westerhof - (July 2010) |
Following the good experience during the Olympic Games 2008 in Qingdao, Svašek Hydraulics
was asked to provide current forecasts for the 470 World Championships 2010 as well.
The sailing races took place at The Hague on 9-18 July 2010. The Dutch team Berkhout/Westerhof
was the winner, among others, thanks to the accurate current forecasts by Svašek Hydraulics.
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Oceanwide database on wave climate now for 13 years - (April 2010) |
The hindcast database of wind and wave conditions generated by the NOAA Wave Watch
III model is now available for more than 13 years (Februay 1997 - March 2010).
For details on the NOAA model and the world wide database go to www.worldwavedata.com.
Forecasts by the NOAA model for the coming days are available for free. See our home
page for e-mail service (no ads or spam!).
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US Federal Court: US Army Corps of Engineers liable for Katrina damage - (November 2009) |
Svašek Hydraulics succesfully supported the complaining party in the trial of the Katrina canal breaches with SWAN and FINEL2D modelling studies. The adjacent animation shows the calculated maximum internal flooding depths in the St. Bernard bowl as a consequence of the breaches and overtopping initiated by hurricane Katrina. The time frame of the animation is 7 hours on the morning of August 29, 2005. Read more....
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FINEL website online - (November 2009) |
Svašek Hydraulics has launched a FINEL website. The numerical models (based on the FINite ELement technique) are inhouse developed
and can be used for the computation of shallow water flow and transport processes in rivers and coastal waters. visit www.finel.nl
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PhD-Thesis Robert Jan Labeur - (26 June 2009) |
Robert Jan Labeur, former employee at Svašek Hydraulics, has successfully defended his PhD-thesis
'Finite element modelling of transport and non-hydrostatic flow in environmental fluid mechanics'.
The ceremony took place on June 26th, 2009 in the Aula of Delft University of Technology at 14:00 hours.
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Svašek's 40th Anniversary - (2009) |
The year 1969 was a special one. It is not only memorable for the first man on the moon, the maiden flight of the Boeing 747, or the last public performance of the Beatles but also for the founding of Svašek Hydraulics!
Now, in 2009 we proudly celebrate Svašek's 40th anniversary.
The founder - Honzo Svašek - withdrew in 1984 as director and gave place to Bram Bliek who now has his 25th jubilee as General Director at Svašek Hydraulics.
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Awards for Bas van Leeuwen - (December 2008) |
Bas van Leeuwen, employee at Svašek Hydraulics, has been awarded both the
"Best graduate Civil Engineering and Management" prize 2008 from the University of Twente and the
"KVWN/NVA thesis prize" from the newly established Waternetwerk.
The prizes have been awarded for his work on the influence of mussel beds on fine sediment dynamics in
the Dutch Wadden Sea. A short summary of the graduation project will appear in the December 5 issue of
H2O and a paper is under review for publication in Ecological Engineering.
More information (in Dutch).
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Computation Power Svašek Hydraulics exceeds 1 Tera FLOP - (November 2008) |
With the purchase of the latest multi processor machine our computer cluster now consists of 20 cluster machines (118 cores) with a
theoretical peak performance of 1,15 TFLOPS (more than 1 trillion (1012) computations per second). Explanation FLOPS (Wikipedia)
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Presentation of Katwijk Marina - (October 2008) |
On Monday 20 October Svašek Hydraulics and her partners Aannemingsbedrijf Van der Poel Terneuzen, FUNDEX and ARCAS Europe have
presented the Katwijk Marina Masterplan. Read more (in Dutch)
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Svašek Hydraulics provides current forecasts to the Dutch Paralympic Sailing Team - (September 2008) |
After the successful support of the Dutch Olympic sailing team (a silver medal for the 470 and a silver medal for the Yngling) Svašek Hydraulics will provide accurate current predictions for the Olympic competition area during the Paralympics. The paralympic sailor Thierry Schmitter and his coach Ronald van Vianen represent The Netherlands in the 2.4mR class.
To read Thierry’s weblog click here.
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Svašek Hydraulics provides current forecasts to the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team - (June 2008) |
National coach Jaap Zielhuis of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team: "We pull out all the stops to give our sailors the best possible preparation for the Olympic Games and to achieve a record performance. The current patterns provided by Svašek Hydraulics are very useful. We are very impressed of the accuracy of the current forecasts."
Read more.
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Svašek Hydraulics presents report to municipalty of Zijpe - (March 2008) |
The municipalty of Zijpe, The Netherlands, has asked Svašek Hydraulics to perform a study into
the morphology of the Noord-Holland coast, focussing on the feasibility of a sand-based solution for the 'weak link' Hondsbossche en Pettemer Zeewering. The report is available at www.zijpe.nl.
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AIS Departure Queen Victoria from Port of Rotterdam - (December 2007) |
AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a worldwide used transponder system for shipping traffic. Svašek Hydraulics uses this
system to monitor ship movements. View AIS departure Queen Victoria from Port of Rotterdam.
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30 years at Svašek Hydraulics - (September 2007) |
September 20th, 1977 was his first day at Svašek Hydraulics. On same day in 2007 Bram Bliek
celebrated his 30th anniversary. He started as a junior engineer, just graduated at Delft
University. Heading the morphology team during construction of the Eastern Scheldt storm surge
barrier was a major task during the first years. For Bram, 30 years at Svašek stand for 30
years of living with water and sediment. In 1984 he became the managing director and since
2003 he is also the chairman at Svašek Hydraulics.
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Multi processor 'cluster' computer upgrade - (April 2007) |
Svašek Hydraulics has upgraded its computing capacity by expanding the in house multi processor machine
by a series of 64 bits processors: a 4 x dual-core Opteron 885 (16 GB memory). The cluster machine is used both in parallel and in sequential
mode for heavy hydrodynamic and morphodynamic computations. The upgrade of its cluster machine is the
fourth in a line since Svašek Hydraulics started in house parallel computing in 2000.
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Battjes-award MSc graduation Lynyrd de Wit - (January 2007) |
Lynyrd de Wit, employee at Svašek Hydraulics, has received the Battjes-award
for best water graduate in 2006 at the faculty Civil Engineering of the
TU-Delft. During graduation a 2D lagrangian SPH computer-code has been
developed. SPH was found to be capable to accurately simulate difficult free
surface problems like a dam break, breaking waves and the water jet over a
sharp weir. For more information about SPH click here.
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