Two-Dimensional Physical Modelling of the Northern Breakwater of Leixões Harbour. Case Study

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2009

Authors

F. Veloso Gomes (Author) FEUP; F. Taveira Pinto (Author) FEUP; E. Brogueira Dias (Author) FEUP; H. Guedes Lopes (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: JOURNAL OF WATERWAY PORT COASTAL AND OCEAN ENGINEERING-ASCE

Vol. 135 No. 6

Pages: 288-295

ISSN: 0733-950X

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Maritime engineering > Coastal structures ; Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Hydraulic engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-ESQ

DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-950X(2009)135:6(288)

Abstract (EN): Leixoes Harbor, near Porto, Portugal, has undergone various improvements over recent decades, especially an expansion inland with excavation for new docks, the raising, and seaward extension of the original breakwater, and the construction of a new submerged breakwater to protect the head of the breakwater extension. Faced with demanding goals and the need for new strategies, the Leixoes Harbor authority decided that the operational conditions of oil terminal "A" needed to be improved. In order to meet those requirements eleven alternative configurations were built and tested in a two-dimensional physical model to compare performance for the same regular wave conditions in regard to stability and the overtopping phenomena. Each configuration was also tested for different tide levels. This paper presents the characteristics and results of those tests.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8