Publications

Rusu, E. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Influence of a new quay on the wave propagation inside the Sines harbour”, Maritime Technology and Engineering, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A. (Eds.),Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 1355-1364

The objective of the present work is to evaluate the wave propagation patterns in the neighboring coastal areas and also in the basin of the Sines port. A wave prediction system was focused on the target area in a multilevel nested scheme with increasing spatial resolution towards the coast. This system is based on WAM, for the wave generation at the level of the entire North Atlantic basin, and on SWAN, for the coastal transformation in the Portuguese continental nearshore and is running operationally at CENTEC. At the last computational level, with a resolution of 25m in the geographical space, comprising also the harbor area, another spectral phase averaged model (STWAVE) was evaluated in parallel with SWAN. As a subsequent step, based on historical data, an analysis of the wave climate in the vicinity of the Sines port was also performed. Following the results of this analysis, and considering various relevant wave patterns, simulations with the two spectral models were carried out in parallel, analyzing in this way possible cases of direct wave propagation in the harbor area. Since the wave models results show that the main harbor basin is not enough protected to the direct wave propagation, the opportunity of building a new quay in the harbor area was also considered by estimating the sheltering effect induced by such a new protection.

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