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HYDRALAB+ Adapting to climate change

Thematic Area
Innovation
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Application Areas
Industry
Scope
R&D
Computed (EurOtop, 2016) and measured non-dimensional mean overtopping discharges, q/(gHm03)0.5. Relation with non-dimensional freeboards, Rc/Hm0: test conditions 2 to 7.
Example of run-up and overtopping processes.
Model surface and profile evolution representation obtained through stereo-photogrametric surveys.

Entity

Description

Project HYDRALAB+ (H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015) gathers an advanced network of environmental hydraulic institutes in Europe, which provides access to a suite of environmental hydraulic facilities. They play a vital role in the development of climate change adaptation strategies, by allowing the direct testing of adaptation measures and by providing data for numerical model calibration and validation

Objectives

  • - Foresight study on adaptations in experimental facilities for analysis of climate change scenarios.
  • - Numerical modeling: numerical modeling validation. Application to rubble mounds under run-up and overtopping conditions.
  • - Physical modeling: bidimensional analysis of damage, overtopping and run-up in a rubble mound breakwater , under storm event scenarios.

Results

- Database of experimental results under climate change storm sequence;

- Analysis of mean overtopping, individual overtopping, run-up and damage progression;

- Comparison of overtopping and run-up results from the physical tests with the empirical formulae of Eurotop (2016);

- Recommendations for experimental facilities in evaluating risks and adaptation measures to climate change.