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The HYDRALAB+ Project is an advanced network of European research organisations that focus on physical modelling of environmental hydraulics. The aim is to develop and improve the experimental facilities for the investigation of expected climate change impacts to ensure that future management and adaptation measures are effective. An important aspect of this work is to identify new or alternative experimental methods and resources to better support future work in modelling climate change impacts and adaptation strategies.

Numerical simulations using the SWAN-VEG model (Simulating WAves Nearshore, with vegetation module) were performed considering the case of Ilha Solteira (SP) reservoir, a navigable stretch of the Tietê

Scour protection is an important component of fixed bottom foundations for offshore wind turbines. Depending on the hydrodynamic conditions, they might be indispensable to avoid the structural collapse of the foundation due to scour phenomena. The design of scour protections is typically deterministic, which often results in overestimated mean diameters of the armour layer.Moreover, the design methodologies currently applied do not provide a measure of safety associated with the proposed design. The present research proposes a novel methodology to assess the safety of the protection and to perform the probabilistic design of static and dynamic scour protections. A case study based on Horns Rev. 3 offshore wind farm is used to show how to select the mean stone diameter according to a pre-defined probability of failure of the protection. The results show that a dynamic scour protection could be safely designed with a reduction of the mean stone diameter up to 15 cm, when compared with the statically stable protection.

The Canary Islands have a long coastline with varying levels of exposure to severe sea conditions. Frequent states of alert and emergency in some parts of their coastline are commonly related to the occurrence of extreme wave conditions. Among the phenomena directly driven by the waves when reaching the shore are the wave run-up and overtopping. Both the study of the flood level, including its variability, and the associated risks are key tools in the planning and management of coastal zones. The aim of this research is to examine the probability of occurrence of run-up events capable of exceeding different topographical levels, for estimating the risk level associated with flooding of the different areas in which the Boca Barranco Beach can be divided, in terms of their nature and use. This beach is located on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, and is part of the site of scientific interest of Jinámar. A large wave dataset is used as input to a high-resolution numerical model for propagating offshore wave conditions to shallow waters in the study area. Furthermore, the morphology of the study area is reproduced by combining different bathymetric databases. Finally, the probability of occurrence of different levels of run-up and the corresponding levels of consequences are assigned, to assess the flood risk in the different areas of the beach, which are presented in a risk map of flooding in the study area.

Scale-model tests are usually required to evaluate the hydraulic and structural behavior of proposed rubble-mound breakwater designs. In order to speed up and ease the armor layer damage assessment, we developed a technique based on stereo photogrammetry. A key feature of this technique is its ability to compensate for the refraction in the air-water interface, thus producing a survey of the envelope of the armor layer without the need to empty the wave flume or wave basin where the scale model tests are carried out. This article describes this technique and the tests made to establish confidence in it and in the damage evaluation on a breakwater scale model. Results led to an error estimation of only fractions of a centimeter.

O HIDRALERTA é um sistema de previsão, alerta e avaliação do risco de galgamentos/inundação em zonas costeiras e portuárias, partindo da utilização de medições/previsões da agitação marítima para calcular o galgamento/inundação nessas zonas. O cálculo dos caudais médios galgados sobre uma estrutura marítima é efetuado através de ferramentas neuronais e/ou fórmulas empíricas, que não permitem definir a distribuição espacial desse caudal atrás da estrutura.Este artigo apresenta a aplicação ao porto/baía da Praia da Vitória, Açores, de um método expedito para modelar essa distribuição espacial, recorrendo a ferramentas SIG. Foi estabelecida uma relação entre a cota de inundação e o volume galgado de água através da utilização de um modelo digital de terreno. Este trabalho representa um primeiro passo na elaboração de um mapa de risco associado ao galgamento costeiro.

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.

A presente comunicação descreve o conjunto de procedimentos adotados para tornar maisfuncional, eficiente e fidedigno o sistema de previsão e alerta de galgamentos em zonascosteiras e portuárias - HIDRALERTA. Estes procedimentos incidiram essencialmente emdois módulos do sistema: o módulo de caraterização da agitação marítima e o módulo dosistema de alerta, que inclui a plataforma Web.O módulo da agitação marítima requer maior capacidade de processamento, e, por isso, foimigrado para o Cluster MEDUSA possibilitando a execução paralelizada dos vários modelosnuméricos de geração, propagação e deformação da agitação marítima em zonas costeirase portuárias. A execução paralelizada permite um aumento da resolução temporal dasprevisões do sistema sem comprometer a rapidez de processamento.A plataforma Web permite dois tipos distintos de visualização diária de resultados: imagensestáticas, que contêm resultados dos modelos numéricos, e um WebGIS, que visa umarápida, eficiente e detalhada análise das previsões do HIDRALERTA. Nesta plataforma foiainda criada uma ferramenta de validação, acessível ao utilizador, que compara os dados daboia ondógrafo da Praia da Vitória (mantida parcialmente através do projecto ESTRAMARMAC/3/C177) com os valores calculados pelo sistema, conferindo uma maior confiança aosresultados do HIDRALERTA. O sistema de alerta foi também desenvolvido de forma aenviar alertas via E-mail. Nos casos que o justifiquem, um alerta emitido automaticamentepelo HIDRALERTA é enviado às entidades competentes, informando-as, com a maiorantecipação possível, das zonas/atividades em risco.

To tackle recurrent emergency situations due to adverse sea wave conditions, often observed in Portuguese ports and coasts, a research project (HIDRALERTA) is underway to build a methodology and a system for long-term planning, wave climate forecast and early warning to be applied to those areas. This system deals with phenomena such as run-up, overtopping and flooding. lt wiII eventually empower the nationa! authorities with tools or systems that allow proper identification of risk areas and emergency situations and enable coastal and port authorities to select adequate and timely measures as to avoid Ioss of lives and minimize damages Iikely to arise from emergency situations. This system is now operative and has been already applied to several places along the coast of Portugal.

São apresentadas algumas das técnicas de validação em curso para o sistema de previsãoe alerta de galgamentos oceânicos no porto e na baía da Praia da Vitória, Ilha Terceira,Açores. Através de hindcast, demonstra-se a capacidade do sistema HIDRALERTA emreproduzir eventos históricos responsáveis pela ocorrência de grandes galgamentos, comosucedido durante um grande temporal em 2001, em que as condições de agitação marítimae consequentes galgamentos originaram a destruição parcial do molhe Sul do porto. Atravésde forecast, comparam-se previsões diárias do sistema com dados de bóia-ondógrafo e cominformações in situ fornecidas por observadores locais, validando assim diariamente osistema. Este procedimento está em curso desde o início do Inverno marítimo de 2015/16. Acomparação dos resultados de hindcast e forecast com, respectivamente, dados históricos eobservações, permite concluir que o sistema representa uma ferramenta fiável no processode tomada de decisão relativamente à gestão de risco e intempéries em zonas costeiras eportuárias.

Monopile foundations are in the lead as the most common offshore substructure worldwide. Therefore, the study of their behaviour and the optimisation of their design represent important contributions, for the development of the offshore wind sector. In order to optimise the design process of monopiles in the marine environment, it is important to account for the uncertainties that can affect these structures, namely those relating to scour phenomena and the means of scour protection. Uncertainty relating to scour can be handled by means of statistical approaches. Probabilistic design methods may enable the optimisation of design procedures.This paper combines several results from physical modelling of scour development and a probabilistic model has been applied and extended to obtain probabilities of failure for the monopiles tested. This investigation will be used for comparison and calibration of the next phase of research, with a similar probabilistic approach being extended for waves and currents combined. The results presented are also used to provide an insight into future research concerning the failure of scour protection schemes. The relationship between safety factors and probabilities of failure of the monopiles is also presented.

O presente trabalho visa estudar numericamente a influência de uma alteração da configuração em planta de um canal na propagação de ondas. Para tal, foi utilizado o modelo OpenFOAM® baseado nas equações RANS (Reynolds

Os quebra-mares de talude são estruturas normalmente utilizadas para proteção portuária eestão sujeitas durante a sua vida útil a diferentes solicitações (p.e., agitação marítima). Aavaliação do seu estado estrutural e a previsão do seu comportamento ao longo do tempotorna-se um assunto fundamental de modo a evitar significativos prejuízos materiais.É nesse âmbito que se insere o programa de observação sistemática, em curso no LNEC,desde 1986, para quebra-mares localizados em Portugal Continental, no qual o LNEC efetuainspeções periódicas e avalia as condições de segurança de cada quebra-mar, bem como oestado de risco da estrutura com vista à melhor gestão das operaçõesmanutenção/reparação.Para apoio a esse programa desenvolveu-se a aplicação informática ANOSOM, emMicrosoft Access

The present study focuses on the comparison of measured wave run-up values obtained in physical model tests with those predicted by different empirical formulae. Tests were carried out in a flume for a cross-section of a rubble mound breakwater with an armour layer of tetrapods and rock, and a recurved wave return wall. The model represents the cross-section of the south breakwater of Praia da Vitória harbour (Azores, Portugal) that directly protects quay 12. Two water levels and several incident wave conditions were tested. Empirical runup formulae from Van der Meer & Stam (1992), Pullen et al. (2007) and Bonakdar & Etemad- Shahidi (2011) were applied for the tested conditions and comparisons were made with experimental values of the two percent wave run-up, R2% . Generally, the agreement between predictions and measurements was better for mean low water than for mean high water springs, with all formulae over predicting measurements for the latter.

A set of physical model tests was run in to characterize the ship

A set of physical model tests was run in order to characterize the ship

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C2IMPRESS is a multi-disciplinary project which aims to enhance understanding and public awareness on multi-hazard risk, based on innovative models, methods, frameworks, tools and technologies to develop decision-making platforms with a fine-grained spatio-temporal data to better assess impacts, vulnerability and resilience on natural hazards. This Report is the Deliverable 1.1 and belongs to Work Package 1, which is mainly addressed to identify the past climate and physical processes that underlie natural disaster events and their consequences

A major objective of TRA LISBON 2022 Conference is to boost research and innovation capacity for the transport sector, throughout a full innovation cycle, from idea to market. Having this in view, the project

The demonstration area will be one of the main focus points of TRA LISBON 2022, presenting multifunctional spaces and being prepared to receive a large number of different types of on-site demonstrations (indoor and outdoor). On-line demonstrations will also be an option, allowing for the widest possible coverage of access for all the participants.The dedicated areas will allow for interactive demonstrations of technological innovations to be carried out by and for industry partners, researchers, and other stakeholders. Demonstrations are an excellent opportunity to introduce conference attendees in an engaging way, as well as to promote new contacts and promising business.

According to the CSA project plan, WP5.2 task objective is to organize technical tours that feature attractive and interactive showcases aiming at engaging participants into novel technologies for all transport modes and enabling stakeholders and their companies to disseminate and even sell their products and applications to all interested parties.

This report is part of HYDRALAB+ Work Package 10, which seeks to strengthen the coherence of experimental hydraulic and hydrodynamic research undertaken by the HYDRALAB+ partner organisations. It outlines the work carried out by Samui Design & Management Ltd, supported by HR Wallingford, in relation to the development of a data repository structure that can be adopted by participants of the HYDRALAB+ project.

Reliable prediction of wave run-up/overtopping and structure damage is a key task in the design and safety assessment of coastal and harbor structures. Run-up/overtopping and damage must be below acceptable limits, both in extreme and in normal operating conditions, to guarantee the stability of the structure and the safety of people and assets on and behind the structure. The mean-sea-level rise caused by climate change and its effects on wave climate may increase the number and intensity of run-up/overtopping events and make the existing coastal/harbor structures more vulnerable to damage.Accurate estimates, through physical modelling, of the statistics of overtopping waves for a set of climate change conditions, are needed. The research project HYDRALAB+ (H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015) gathers an advanced network of environmental hydraulic institutes in Europe, which provides access to a suite of environmental hydraulic facilities. They play a vital role in the development of climate change adaptation strategies, by allowing the direct testing of adaptation measures and by providing data for numerical model calibration and validation. The use of physical (scale) models allows the simulation of extreme events as they are now, and as they are projected to be under different climate change scenarios.The enclosed dataset refers to the experimental work developed at LNEC within HYDRALAB+ and considers 2D damage and overtopping tests for a rock armor slope, with four different approaches to represent storms. Data of free surface elevation, overtopping and damage is presented.

The HYDRALAB+ project is aimed at strengthening the coherence of experimental hydraulic and hydrodynamic research undertaken across its partner organisations. This report is D10.2 of the HYDRALAB+ project, entitled

The HYDRALAB+ project is aimed at strengthening the coherence of experimental hydraulic and hydrodynamic research undertaken across its partner organisations. This report is D10.3 of the HYDRALAB+ project, entitled

This deliverable is related to task 8.2

Neste relatório inicial são apresentadas a arquitetura e as caraterísticas gerais dos protótipos do sistema de previsão, alerta e gestão de riscos causados pela agitação marítima para os portos de Madalena do Pico, São Roque do Pico e Praia da Vitória. Os três protótipos em desenvolvimento têm por base uma arquitetura semelhante, com características distintas, nomeadamente no que respeita à localização dos dados de base, às malhas computacionais utilizadas e às características físicas das fronteiras, tanto no plano horizontal (interface terra-mar), como no vertical (batimetria dos fundos). Caracteriza-se o layout geral dos portos, bem como a sua morfologia e operabilidade.

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