Rui Pereira Capitão

Research Officer, Harbours and Maritime Structures Division, Hydraulics and Environment Department

Coastal Engineering and Maritime Hydraulics, more specifically long-term analyses of sea wave statistics, for the statistical analysis of sea wave climates and short-term analyses of wave records for numerical and physical simulations in a laboratory environment. Systematic observation and monitoring of maritime works.

During almost 33 years of its career, he has perfected methodologies of wave regime transfers and applied numerical propagation models in real situations of study, contributing to the development and improvement of methodologies for the establishment of wave regimes, wave regime transfers and associated databases. He developed the SAM integrated software, for characterization, simulation, generation, acquisition and control of waves propagating in laboratory flumes and wave tanks, a tool used both in physical model tests, in experimental facilities, and in numerical simulation and analysis performed in scientific research and consulting projects. Currently he is responsible for the LNEC's systematic observation program of maritime structures (OSOM+).He has been strengthening scientific research and technological development activity at LNEC in the scope of the planned research projects and contract research in the following areas:

• Short-term sea wave analysis, i.e., numerical simulation and generation and acquisition of waves in flumes and tanks.
• Long-term sea wave analysis, i.e., the establishment, transfer and standardization of sea wave regimes.
• The development of methodologies for the systematic observation of maritime structures, including participation in the campaigns, their analysis and subsequent assembly of recommendations and action measures.
• Field data measurement campaigns to improve the knowledge about the hydrodynamic phenomena of the systems, to develop and improve in-situ and model-based measurement techniques, at reduced scale, and to allow the validation of numerical models.
• The collaboration, for the maritime-port component in the area of security of maritime transport, following his participation in the European projects H2020 USE-iT (for which he was responsible at LNEC) and FOX (for which he was a collaborator with DT).

The result of this activity has allowed him to participate in more than four dozen scientific research projects, with national (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and international (MAST, EU-Framework, Interreg, AdI, NATO, etc. ), having coordinated one between 2015 and 2018, as well as participating in more than five dozen national and international consulting projects (Angola, Algeria, Brazil, France, Morocco, United Kingdom, Angola, Cape Verde, etc.). In the context of these projects, he established sea wave regimes, and developed and applied numerical and physical modelling methodologies for the characterization of those regimes at the site of the studies. In general, the development of methodologies and tools in which he was involved were carried out with special attention to the needs inherent to the programmed and contract research studies that its unit al LNEC is currently developing and intends to develop in the future.

Part of his activity is documented in book chapters, scientific and technical journal articles, communications to scientific and technical meetings, reports, and other dissemination documents. The total number of publications and communications produced in this work was: 24 publications in international journals, 11 publications in national journals, 71 written communications to international scientific meetings, 70 written communications to national scientific meetings, 146 LNEC reports, 51 project reports and 20 other general dissemination documents.