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 Universidade de Lisboa
RESEARCH GROUPS

HYDRAULICS

CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability > RESEARCH GROUPS > HYDRAULICS

Coordinator: António Pinheiro

This group is composed of 34 researchers (13 integrated PhD, 8 PhD collaborators, 13 PhD students) covering a broad range of topics, which include six main research lines with several cross-cutting related issues, such as:

Hydraulics Research Group is active in the following general domains of hydraulics:

  1. Pressurized water systems
  2. Fluvial hydraulic structures
  3. River restoration and management
  4. Environmental hydraulics and morphodynamics
  5. Ocean waves, coastal morphodynamics and coastal/port structures

Through all thematic strands of CERIS, Hydraulics Research Group plans to:

  • Reduce the impacts of water uses (e.g. dam construction, hydropower production)
  • Study the transport of sediments, pollutants and nutrients in rivers, estuaries, tidal inlets and sandy beaches
  • Improve the ecological connectivity and habitat conditions in rivers
  • Increase the safety and efficiency of hydraulic systems
  • Develop improved solutions for hydroenergy generation
  • Study coastal hazards at the sea-land interface
  • Improve the safety of navigation and on/offshore structures
  • Assess coastal engineering solutions (e.g. coastal defence structures, beach/shoreface nourishments)

Hydraulics Research Group has made a considerable impact on specific topics such as:

  1. Pressurized water systems
    • Hydraulic transient 1D/2D/3D modelling in pressurised pipes
    • Energy efficiency, hydropower and hybrid energy production
    • Performance, resilience and risk management of water systems
  1. Fluvial hydraulic structures
    • CFD modelling of hydraulic structures
    • Experimental study of stepped spillways
    • Design criteria for the prediction of the maximum scour in a plunge pool spillway
  1. River restoration and management
    • Modelling of fishways and fish species behaviour assessment
    • Incorporating riparian vegetation into environmental flow regimes
  1. Environmental fluid mechanics and morphodynamics
    • Modelling of solid-fluid and between solids and fluid in free-surface flows
    • Modelling dam-breach and dam-break dynamics
    • Scour at bridge piers, abutments and river confluences
    • Development of instrumentation to measure bedload transport rates
    • Study of river sediment transport dynamics in rough-bed streams
  1. Ocean waves, coastal morphodynamics, and coastal/port structures
    • Numerical studies of sediment transport dynamics in coastal areas
    • Modelling tsunamis and storm surges
    • Field observations of hydro-morphodynamics at coastal areas

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