Numerical seabed using hydroacoustic digital twins

The hosted research project NumSeaHy is a joint effort among multidisciplinary stakeholders with diverse knowledge backgrounds (applied mathematics, statistics, acoustics, and biology) to develop novel digital twins of coastal seabeds, focusing on the health monitoring of relevant biological underwater environments.

NumSeaHy is a project endorsed as part of the Decade of Ocean Action by UNESCO. It aims to foster the design, implementation, and use of digital twin tools for monitoring the physical nature of the seabed from a quantitative perspective, quantify the uncertainty of those predictions in terms of hydroacoustic data, and subsequently, analyze some complex phenomena present in underwater environments. 

The proposal should be oriented to the development of numerical and computational models to solve challenging problems in underwater acoustics and/or the characterization of seabed sediments, or porous materials. Competitive applications should address current challenges in underwater coastal environments and design effective technical numerical methodologies to analyse scattering problems from a mathematical or a numerical point of view.

The project outline is flexible and open to refinement. It will be adapted to align with the strengths and expertise of the postdoctoral researcher and the host group.