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A avaliação do dano causado pela agitação incidente em modelos físicos de quebra mares de taludes pode ser realizada comparando volumes e profundidades erodidas entre levantamentos consecutivos de cada talude.Atualmente, estes levantamentos podem ser realizados de forma não intrusiva, recorrendo a técnicas fotogramétricas, a laser scan ou a sensores de posição baseados na metolodologia Time of Flight (ToF). Dependendo das condições de levantamento e da metodologia de pós-processamento das nuvens de pontos obtidas, estas técnicas permitem obter modelos tridimensionais de superfície, com elevada precisão.Em detalhe, as diferenças de volume entre os levantamentos inicial e

SAFEPORT safety system aims to daily reports to the Sines harbor administration, potential emergency situations regarding ships

Early warning systems are an important tool for local authorities to detect emergency situations in advance and initiate the necessary safety measure. These systems often depend on numerical models to estimate wave overtopping in the affected areas. The SWASH model has shown to deliver good results in recent overtopping studies. The To-SEAlert project has the aim of increasing the efficiency, robustness and reliability of the HIDRALERTA early warning system. This study shows a first intent to implement the SWASH model to simulate wave overtopping for the Ericeira prototype. SWASH was implemented for one breakwater profile used to simulate the overtopping discharge and evaluate the associated risk levels. It was compared to the current approach used in HIDRALERTA, which resorts to a neural network trained with a physical modeling database, NN_OVERTOPPING2. Finally, both approaches were compared with previously analyzed video images of the breakwater. The results showed that SWASH generally overestimates overtopping and is not in good agreement with the video images. NN_OVERTOPPING2 has a better agreement with the video images. A possible reason for the overestimation might be the wave direction, which cannot be included in one-dimensional simulations in SWASH.

Early Warning Systems are crucial disaster-risk-reduction strategies as they allow local authorities to prepare and implement in advance the necessary measures to avoid major destruction and risk for individuals and properties caused by storm events. HIDRALERTA is a forecast, early warning and risk assessment system for port and coastal areas that uses forecasts of sea waves and water levels to evaluate overtopping/flooding events and risks associated with the mooring of ships. The distinguishing feature of this system is that the risk assessment is based on specific parameters related to the actual risk being predicted, such as overtopping discharges, or the ship

In this study, performance of an oscillating water column wave energy converter inserted into a hypothetical composite breakwater with rubble mound foundation located at the southern Brazilian coast is analyzed. The FLUENT® numerical model, which is based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations, is used in 2D numerical simulations by adopting the Volume of Fluid method to consider the two-phase flow (water and air). The influence of the rubble mound foundation on the pneumatic power, the run-up/down, the free surface elevation inside the chamber, and the energy balance for different incident waves are investigated. The rubble mound foundation of the composite breakwater slightly affected hydrodynamics; however, it reduced significantly the pneumatic power of the device from 7 to 15% comparing with that obtained to a vertical breakwater founded on an impermeable foundation.

This study aims proposing a novel geometry of the onshore Oscillating Water Column (OWC) device to increase its efficiency. A comparison between standard OWC

Este trabalho descreve a aplicação do sistema SAFEPORT no Porto de Sines, e em particular, o teste de uma das funcionalidades do sistema relacionada com otimização de operações marítimas em ambiente portuário. O SAFEPORT é um sistema de previsão e alerta de perigosassociados a navegação.A aplicação do sistema SAFEPORT permitiu a otimização dos esquemas de amarração de três navios distintos acostados em três terminais do Porto de Sines, sob as condições de agitação marítima provocadas pela tempestade Dora (4 de dezembro de 2020). Foram construídos os modelos dos três navios e analisados vários esquemas de amarração a fim de obter uma solução ótima para cada navio. Este exercício mostrou que o sistema SAFEPORT é uma ferramenta útil para apoio à decisão nos sistemas de amarração dos navios. A configuração dos cabos de amarração tem grande influência no comportamento, e consequentemente na segurança, dos navios amarrados sujeitos a situações de tempestade.

The assessment of damage evolution in scale model tests of rubble-mound breakwaters can be achieved by comparing eroded depths and volumes between consecutive surveys. Aiming to evaluate damage evolution on rubble-mound breakwater, scale model tests were recently conducted on the maritime hydraulic facilities of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering. This paper focuses on the use of novel, non-intrusive survey methodologies such as the Time of Flight (ToF) principle technique. In this study, damage evaluation is based on the comparison of point clouds obtained before and after each test series, enabling the calculation of eroded depths and eroded volumes and the estimation of displaced units by using a non-dimensional damage parameter based on the eroded volume.

This paper presents a comparison of two URANS models based on the VoF approach, FLUENT (Fluent, 2006) and IH2VOF (Lara et al., 2011), to perform a detaiied analysis of the hydrodynamic phenomena outside and inside an open Oscillating Water Coiumn (OWC) device. This analysis is important to determine the ability of each solver in accurate modelling the complex non-linear phenomena which occur in the wave-fluid-structure interaction, in order to use it in the deveiopment of an innovative integrated tool at prototype scale. Numerical results of free surface elevation, oscillating free surface inside the water chamber, amplification factor and phase lag are analysed and compared with experimental data for several incident wave conditions. For an OWC with a fuliy open chamber, good agreement was achieved between experimental data and numerical results obtained with two modeis with different numerical methodologies.

In order to account for scour problems, protection systems are usually employed around the foundations, i.e. Arklow Bank OWF and Scroby Sands OWF (Whitehouse et al., 2011). Their design is main-ly of semi empiric nature (De Vos et al., 2011) and probabilistic approaches haven

An analytical model is applied to a schematic case of an oscillating water column (OWC), without head loss, to obtain a first estimation of the chamber hydraulic efficiency. The IH2VOF numerical model of wave-structure interations is applied to perform an investigation, useful to complement and verify the analytical approach and analyses the flow characteristics on the OWC, including nonlinear effects. The numerical model was validated against physical model tests on a schematic OWC stucture at the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, presenting god agreement.A significant difference of amplification factor parameter was observed between lhe analytical results and numerical results and experimental data, which may be attributed to the absence of head loss in the analytical model.

Nesta comunicação, descrevem-se os ensaios em modelo físico realizados com o objetivo de caracterizar o campo de ondas em torno de um navio livre, quando sujeito a condições de agitação incidente regular e irregular. Estes dados são especialmente importantes para a validação de modelos numéricos de caracterização da resposta de navios à ação da agitação incidente. Assim, para cada condição de agitação incidente, efetuaram-se medições da elevação da superfície livre e das componentes da velocidade em diversos pontos em redor do navio. Apresentam-se as seguintes análises dos dados experimentais: análise temporal e espetral (espetro de energia e wavelets) dos valores de elevação da superfície livre e análise temporal da velocidade das partículas, a meio da coluna de água. A análise temporal e espetral de cada série de medições obtida permite a caracterização da agitação nos pontos em redor do navio, em termos de alturas, períodos e velocidade. Avalia-se também a influência do navio nas características da agitação.

This paper aims at presenting two diíferent methodologies to evaluale wave overtopping consequences: the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). The AHP is based on lhe comparison of successive and paired information that was selecled and quantified having in mind its hierarchic prioritization by taking into account lhe estimated relevance of each considered criterion or indicator. The ANP provides a general framework lo deal with decisions without making assumplions about the independence of higher level elements from lower level eiements and about the independence of the elements within a levei. In fact, the ANP uses a network without the need lo specify leveis as in a hierarchy structure iike lhe AHP. Influence is a central concept in the ANP. Applicalion of the AHP and the ANP melhodologies to lhe case study of Praia da Vitória harbour (Azores, Porlugal) is presenied. With the AHP, a consequences level map is obtained.

Wave run-up parameters are key factors in studying coastal flooding. An experiment was performed at LNEC to study wave run-up and overtopping on a breakwater.This work investigates the possibility of measuring wave run-up by using a video-monitoring technique.Water level oscillations were identified on the breakwater slope over time. Wave run-up was marked on each timestack image produced for each test.Run-up events were identified and related to the surf similarity parameter. Properties of wave run-up derived from video imagery were analysed and compared to data from a wave gauge placed over the breakwater cross-section. Results confirmed that the video imagery technique is an alternative technique for measuring run-up in physical model experiments.

Neste artigo apresenta-se uma metodologia que visa minimizar os erros associados à medição por ADV (Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry). Estes erros podem ter duas causas: insuficiência de partículas em suspensão na coluna de água; e desalinhamento dos eixos do ADV com os eixos coordenados do problema. Seguindo esta metodologia, aplica-se primeiramente um filtro digital para eliminar as frequências elevadas fisicamente irrealistas e, em seguida, aplica-se uma transformação de coordenadas para alinhar as componentes de velocidade medidas com o sistema de coordenadas do problema, sendo possível identificar o desalinhamento do ADV face a esse sistema de coordenadas.Apresenta-se a aplicação desta metodologia na propagação de ondas regulares num canal.

Para a praia da Galé, Algarve, foram efetuados um conjunto de ensaios em modelo físico (canal de ondas) com o principal objetivo de analisar a hidrodinâmica da propagação de ondas sobre um fundo rochoso, para várias condições de agitação regular e irregular incidente. Efetuaram-se medições da elevação da superfície livre com sondas resistivas ao longo do canal e das componentes da velocidade com ADV, a meio da coluna de água em várias secções ao longo do canal. A evolução dos resultados ao longo do canal permite um melhor conhecimento do processo de propagação e contribui com dados para a validação de modelos numéricos.

Ships berthed inside sheltered basins can experience excessive movements due to waves. The paper presents an integrated numerical tool that interconnects several numerical models to reproduce the most relevant physical phenomena associated to wave action on a moored ship, the resulting ship movements and the forces on mooring lines and fenders. A new methodology was developed to determine the hydrodynamic forces on the ship.A non-linear phase resolving Boussinesq model is used to propagate waves from outside the harbour to wherever desired location inside the harbour. A modified version of a 3D panel method model computes the hydrodynamic coefficients of the ship, whereas the Haskind relations determine the wave forces on the ship. The time series of the moored ship motions and forces on moorings are obtained with another numerical model. This new methodology is used to replicate the scale model tests of a moored tanker inside Leixões Harbour.

Neste artigo, apresenta-se uma descrição do papel da modelação física no apoio aos estudos de Engenharia Costeira e Portuária, ilustrando-se as suas potencialidades com exemplos de casos de estudo.Referem-se os contributos inovadores em conceitos, equipamentos, técnicas e procedimentos experimentais que têm sido desenvolvidos nos recentes anos. Assim, apresentam-se metodologias a explorar no futuro, tais como procedimentos destinados a facilitar, agilizar e automatizar as análises de estabilidade e galgamentos de quebra-mares, assim como dos danos no manto protetor, provocados pela agitação marítima nele incidente, e o acesso remoto a ensaios experimentais, e à informação associada à realização destes, a clientes/investigadores interessados.Por fim, são apontados cenários de desenvolvimento para a modelação física de modo a lidar com as consequências das alterações climáticas, e que incorporem: a) sequências de eventos de temporal, incluindo efeitos cumulativos, b) a subida do nível médio do mar; c) técnicas de medição não intrusivas que permitam obter a análise de fenómenos complexos, com características de grande variabilidade temporal e espacial, sem interferir nos mesmos ou no próprio sistema modelado.

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