Dr.ir. Y.M. (Yoeri) Dijkstra
Dr.ir. Y.M. (Yoeri) Dijkstra
Profile
Awards
2015 - Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. National award for best Master’s thesis in the field of Applied Mathematics of 2014/2015
2009 - Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. National talent award for highest marks in the first year BSc Civil Engineering
Personal webpage
Biography
Yoeri Dijkstra is an assistent professor at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM) investigating dynamical systems and partial differential equations related to estuarine dynamcs. Application of recent work has been on salt intrusion, sediment dynamics and phytoplankton dynamics in estuaries and tidal rivers. The focus of his research is on modelling large-scale changes and regime shifts in estuarine dynamics in response to alterations (deepening, widening, etc.) of the estuary, climate change (sea level rise and changing fresh water discharge) and seasonal dynamics. To study this, he has developed the iFlow modelling framework, an idealised model designed to systematically study (non-linear) physical processes and the sensitivity to different parameterisations. Besides a broad interest in physical processes in estuaries, he has a particular interest in complex mathematical behaviour, such as feedbacks and bifurcations related to these processes.
Yoeri received his PhD Cum Laude from Delft University of Technology on the subject of regime shifts in sediment concentrations in estuaries (thesis downloadable from repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A28e12122-9c63-4260-aa87-b9e8f7de35fe). He furthermore has double BSc and MSc degrees in Civil Engineering (Specialisation Environmental Fluid Mechanics) and Applied Mathematics (Specialisation Computational Science and Engineering). During his Master programme he has worked on improving the numerical accuracy of the k-ε model, diagnostic decomposition of salt fluxes in complex models and developing a renewed framework for ESCO circulation (previously tidal straining).
See Yoeri's personal webpage for an up-to-date list of projects and publications
Publications
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2024
Estuarine Adjustment
Dependence of Salinity Delay on the Forcing Timescale and Magnitude
Yoeri M. Dijkstra -
2024
Regime Shift to Hyperturbid Conditions in the Loire Estuary
Overview of Observations and Model Analysis of Physical Mechanisms
Yoeri M. Dijkstra / Roel J.A. de Goede -
2024
The relationship between linearised 3D and 2DH models for tidally dominated shallow waters
Marco P. Rozendaal / Yoeri M. Dijkstra / Henk M. Schuttelaars
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2023
Evolution of multi-annual and large-scale phytoplankton patterns in the Scheldt estuary
The disappearance of phytoplankton accumulation in the brackish region
Dante M.L. Horemans / Yoeri M. Dijkstra / Michèle Tackx / Patrick Meire / Tom J.S. Cox -
2022
Influence of Wind on Subtidal Salt Intrusion and Stratification in Well-Mixed and Partially Stratified Estuaries
Hendrik Jongbloed / Henk M. Schuttelaars / Yoeri M. Dijkstra / Paul B. Donkers / Antonius J.F. Hoitink
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Prizes
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2023-8-3
Veni grant AES 2022
EEMCS researcher Yoeri Dijkstra has received a Veni grant within the Exact and Natural Sciences (ENW) research domain. He received it for his research Understanding salt intrusion in estuaries under climate change and human interventions.