Presentations Overview

Many large estuaries around the world are engineered to some degree for both flood protection and maintenance of shipping routes. Naturally, planforms of sandy estuaries have the tendency to converge landwards exponentially, where deviations from this shape provide alternating space and constriction...

Suspended sediment transport and retention within salt marshes is a key factor in their resilience against erosion associated with threats such as sea level rise and coastal squeeze. Salt marshes are vegetated intertidal wetlands found in temperate climate zones. Their presence contributes to flood ...

This work presents novel large-scale wave flume experiments (on a scale of 1:7) on the influence of a foredune in front of a secondary dune during storm surge situations. Working hypothesis is that the foredune acts as a sediment buffer, damping incoming waves and reducing overall erosion on the sec...

Low-crested detached breakwaters, vital for coastal protection, face scour challenges due to wave-structure-seabed interactions. This study advances the understanding of scour near detached rubble-mound breakwaters. Using a 3D mobile bed physical model at the University of Porto, various hydrodynami...

The assessment of the coastal protection potential of dunes is far from being a streamlined, mature procedure, and it will demand more parameters than merely the dunes' height, dimensions or volume, but tentatively also their vegetation coverage. The role of stabilizing root components in the overal...