Lima, L.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Zózimo, A. C.; Pinheiro, L.(APRH, 2025-05-26)
Este trabalho1 apresenta o estudo da vulnerabilidade da Praia da Vitória (Terceira, Açores) aos
galgamentos costeiros, por meio de uma metodologia SIG aplicando álgebra de mapas. A
metodologia empregada em Praia da Vitória ...
Numerical analyses of a buoy with a rotational DOF and a Pendulor-type wave energy converter
subjected to incident regular waves are carried out. The ANSYS Fluent® software, based on the
Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes ...
Tavares, P.; Mendonça, A.C.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Bicudo, P.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2024-06-04)
A case study aiming to improve surfing conditions over a submerged detached breakwater, intended to be
placed in front of Praia da Vagueira (Aveiro, Portugal), was concluded in April 2022. The final results are
revisited ...
Martinez, C.; Mendonça, A.C.; Lemos, R.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Mendes, D.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2025-06-22)
Coastal revetments are commonly constructed at the land-sea boundary to control shoreline retreat and protect infrastructure from coastal hazards, such as wave overtopping and coastal flooding. An innovative approach to ...
Mendonça, A.C.; Lemos, R.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Martinez, C.; Girão, H.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2025-06-22)
The ProCoast-3D project aims at the development, application and testing of methodologies for predicting the structural behavior of rubble-mound breakwaters (RMBs), as part of a decision support system for the planning and ...
The present benchmark test case aims to simulate and validate the interaction of long-crested waves with a vegetation stem, based on flume experiments conducted for 5 m length artificial vegetation fields exposed to regular ...
Craveiro, J.; Oliveira, M. M.; Zózimo, A. C.; Fernandes, J. N.; CRUZ, M.M.; VENTURA, S.(2025-02-03)
The fourth and last collaborative Laboratory of the C2IMPRESS project was held in Figueira da Foz on February 26, 2025. Its main objective, building upon the outcomes of the previously conducted Laboratories, was co-designing ...
Lemos, R.; Silva, L. G.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Soares, R. E.; Costa, C.E.B.C.; Simão, J.(APRH, 2025-05-26)
Neste trabalho descrevem-se os estudos em modelo físico reduzido tridimensional, à escala 1:58.9, da Solução Proposta para a reconstrução do molhe-cais de proteção do porto das Lajes das Flores (Flores, Açores) na sequência ...
Lemos, R.; Mendonça, A.C.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Martinez, C.; Girão, H.; Lopes, T.(SCACR, 2025-02-16)
The ProCoast-3D project focuses on developing, applying, and testing methodologies to predict the structural behaviour of rubble-mound breakwaters (RMBs).
The study aims to revisit Melby and Kobayashi’s (1999) damage ...
Soares, R. E.; Lemos, R.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Silva, L. G.; Reis, R.(APRH, 2025-04-08)
Nesta comunicação descrevem-se os estudos em modelo físico reduzido tridimensional da solução selecionada para a construção de um quebra-mar de proteção da baía do Porto de São Roque do Pico, Ilha do Pico, Açores. Os ...
Lemos, R.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Silva, L. G.; Soares, R. E.(APRH, 2025-04-08)
Devido à sua extensa zona costeira, Portugal possui um importante número de estruturas de proteção marítima, sendo as mais comuns os quebra-mares de taludes. De modo a otimizar o dimensionamento hidráulico destas estruturas, ...
Waves generated by the wind in oceans and seas have a significant available quantity of clean and renewable energy. However, harvesting their energy is still a chal lenge. The integration of an oscillating water column ...
Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Lima, L.; Pinheiro, L.; Zózimo, A. C.(APRH, 2025-04-08)
O Projeto Life Garachico - Adaptação das zonas costeiras urbanas da Macaronésia às inundações decorrentes das alterações climáticas (Life20 CCA/ES/001641) - objetiva a criação e implementação de uma estratégia flexível ...
Pinheiro, L.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Gomes, A.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2024-06-07)
Downtime of port terminals results in large economic losses and has a major impact on the overall
competitiveness of ports. EarlyWarning Systems (EWS) are an effective tool to reduce ports’ vulnerability by
increasing ...
Os quebra-mares de taludes são estruturas de protecção portuária muito comuns em Portugal e em cujo projecto se assume a necessidade de obras de manutenção ou reparação durante a sua vida útil. Para a avaliação da necessidade ...
Reis, R.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Suzuki , T.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2024-06-07)
Data of wave dissipation over vegetation fields was collected from laboratory flume experiments, for
different vegetation and wave conditions. An analytical model and a numerical model are applied to estimate
the wave ...
Lemos, R.; Carvalho, M; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Andriolo, U.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2024-06-07)
This work evaluated a video camera-based technique for measuring wave run-up and identifying overtopping
events in three-dimensional physical scale models of rubble-mound breakwaters. Run-up elevations inferred
by the ...
Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Pinheiro, L.; Zózimo, A. C.; Lima, L.; Serrazina, V.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2024-06-07)
The present work describes the developments done so far to the Praia da Vitoria coastal region under the LIFEGARACHICO project, namely the implementation of module on HIDRALERTA early warning system for
emergency response ...
Tavares, P.; Mendonça, A.C.; Fortes, C. J. E. M.; Bicudo, P.(IARH EUROPE CONGRESS, 2024-06-07)
A case study aiming to improve surfing conditions over a submerged detached breakwater, intended to be placed in front of Praia da Vagueira (Aveiro, Portugal), was concluded in April 2022. The final results are revisited ...