Ap van Dongeren
Dr. Ap van Dongeren received his M.Sc. from Delft University of Technology in 1992, where he developed a morphological tidal inlet model. In August 1997, he graduated with a Ph.D. in Coastal Engineering from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, U.S.A., where he developed a nearshore circulation model, which is capable of describing long waves and currents near an ocean beach. From September 1997 to December 1999, he had a joint appointment at WL|DELFT HYDRAULICS and Delft University of Technology. He was involved in both fundamental research in the field of waves and currents in the nearshore region and wave generation and absorption in the laboratory environment, and in applied ocean and coastal engineering consultancy. From January 2000, he has a fulltime position as senior researcher and later specialist at WL|DELFT HYDRAULICS, now Deltares. His interests are wave generation, observation and analysis in laboratory environments, as well as numerical modelling of infragravity waves, nearshore morphology and dune erosion.
Ap van Dongeren has been projectleader on a number of national and international projects for the Dutch government, waterboards, the Office of Naval Research and the European Union. Most recently, he has led a project team to improve the performance of SWAN (a wave action model) in a tidal inlet sea in order to derive more reliable wave boundary conditions. He has been WorkPackage Leader for the MICORE project which has developed dune erosion models for the European Union. He has led a number of projects for the Office of Naval Research, concerning the development of Delft3D as an open-source model for the Navy, the assessment of this model on the San Diego Bight, the development of a tool to quickly set up models and the development of a method to derive nearshore bathymetries from video data. He has also led the Deltares effort to develop an open-source dune erosion model, called XBeach. He has been involved in the model’s application for moored vessels (in a joint industry project) and to coral reef environments in a collaboration with the U. Western Australia.
Working experience
| 2008 - Present | Deltares | Specialist |
| 1997 - 2007 | WL Delft Hydraulics | Senior Scientist |
| 1997 - 2005 | TU Delft | Researcher |
| 1992 - 1997 | USA | PhD candidate University of Delaware |
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Dunes subproject “Development Advanced Dune erosion model”
The Netherlands, 2011 - present
Projectleader SBW
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FloodControl2015 – “Realtime Safety on Sandy Coasts”
The Netherlands, 2011 - present
Projectleader
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Building with Nature “Swimmer safety”
The Netherlands, 2011 - present
Projectleader
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ONR funded project “Delft DashBoard."
The Netherlands, 2009 - present
Projectleader
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ONR funded project for coastal circulation modelling around San Diego, CA.
USA, 2008 - present
Projectleader
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U funded FP7 project “Micore” on Coastal Risk
The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Projectleader
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DH Project leader on US Army Corps of Engineers project on morphodynamical impacts of hurricanes (jointly with IHE-Delft and TU Delft).
USA, 2006 - 2008
Projectleader
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nearshore video data and numerical model integration (ONR funded project Beachwizard).
2005 - 2007
Projectleader
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Hanoi Water Resources University, Vietnam
Vietnam, 2004 - 2005
Projectleader of supply of wave flume and wave generators
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Research and Development of the Delft3D model system for the Office of Naval Research, U.S. Navy
USA, 2001 - 2010
Projectleader
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Using 18th-century storm-surge data from the Dutch Coast to improve the confidence in flood risk estimates
2011
Baart, F., M.A.J. Bakker, A. van Dongeren, C. den Heijer, S. van Heteren, M.W.J. Smit, M. van Koningsveld, and A. Pool (2011). “Using 18th-century storm-surge data from the Dutch Coast to improve the confidence in flood risk estimates”. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 2791-2801, doi:10.5194/nhess-11-2791-2011.
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Modeling storm impacts on beaches, dunes and barrier islands. Coastal Engineering
2009
Roelvink, J.A., A. Reniers, A. Van Dongeren, J. Van Thiel de Vries, R. McCall, J. Lescinski. 2009. Modeling storm impacts on beaches, dunes and barrier islands. Coastal Engineering, doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.08.006
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Two-dimensional time dependent hurricane overwash and erosion modelling at Santa Rosa Island
2009
McCall, R.T., J.S.M. Van Thiel de Vries, N.G. Plant, A.R. Van Dongeren, J.A. Roelvink, D.M. Thompson, A.J.H.M. Reniers (2009). Two-dimensional time dependent hurricane overwash and erosion modelling at Santa Rosa Island. Coastal Engineering, Vol. 57, 7, pp. 668-683, DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.02.006.
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Nearshore bathymetry estimation through assimilation of model computations and remote observations
2008
Van Dongeren, A.R., N.G. Plant, A.B. Cohen, J.A. Roelvink, M. C. Haller, P. Catalán (2008) Beach Wizard: Nearshore bathymetry estimation through assimilation of model computations and remote observations. Coastal Engineering, Volume 55, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 1016-1027
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Shoaling and shoreline dissipation of low-frequency waves
2007
Van Dongeren, A., J. Battjes, T. Janssen, J van Noorloos, K. Steenhauer, G. Steenbergen, and A. Reniers (2007), Shoaling and shoreline dissipation of low-frequency waves, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C02011, doi:10.1029/2006JC003701.
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Shoaling of subharmonic gravity waves
2004
Battjes, J.A., H.J. Bakkenes, T.T. Janssen and A.R. Van Dongeren (2004). “Shoaling of subharmonic gravity waves.’’ J. Geoph. Res. , 109, C2, C02009, 10.1029/2003JC001863.
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Numerical modeling of infragravity wave response during Delilah
2003
Van Dongeren, A.R., A.J.H.M. Reniers, J.A. Battjes and I.A. Svendsen (2003). “Numerical modeling of infragravity wave response during Delilah.” J. Geoph. Res, 108, (C9) , 3288, doi:10.1029/2002JC001332.
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Nonlinear and Quasi 3-D Effects in Leaky Infragravity Waves
2000
Van Dongeren, A.R. and I.A. Svendsen (2000). Nonlinear and Quasi 3-D Effects in Leaky Infragravity Waves. Coastal Engineering, vol. 41, issue 4, pp. 467-496.
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An Absorbing-Generating Boundary Condition for Shallow Water Models
1997
Van Dongeren, A.R. and I.A. Svendsen (1997). An Absorbing-Generating Boundary Condition for Shallow Water Models. J. of Waterways, Ports, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, vol. 123, no. 6, pp. 303-313.
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A model of morphological behaviour of tidal basins
1994
Van Dongeren, A.R. and H.J. de Vriend (1994).. Coastal Engineering, 22, pp. 287-310.