Prof. Rui M.L. Ferreira

Instituto Superior Tecnico

Associate Professor

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About

Rui Ferreira is Associate Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and a CERIS senior researcher. For the past 20 years, he has been involved in experimental research in fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes, development of laboratory instrumentation and mathematical modelling of free-surface flows, including the coordination of the development of PIV and bedload measuring systems and of mathematical modelling tools such as STAV model (http://www.fluidmechenv.tk/). He is Associate Editor of two international journals and has participated in the organization of several scientific events, including River Flow 2006. He is a member of the leadership teams of the Fluvial Hydraulics Committee and of the Experimental Methods and Instrumentation Committee of IAHR.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

River Engineering Turbulence Hydraulic Engineering Flood Modelling Numerical Modeling Fluid Mechanics Computational Fluid Dynamics Numerical Simulation Experimental Fluid Mechanics Hydrodynamics

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Fluid Mechanics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	Past Chair	2022-07-08	Now
IAHR Council	Technical Committee Chair	2021-07-07	2022-07-08
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	Chair	2019-08-06	2022-07-08
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	Vice Chair	2017-08-06	2019-08-06
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	Member	2015-08-06	2017-08-06
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics	Co-opted	2013-09-08	2023-03-18

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Lock Release Gravity Current Interacting with a Cylindrical Obstacle	2023
Hydrodynamics of Daphnia Magna Horizontal Migration: Phototaxis and Predatory Cues	2022
Lock-Exchange Density Currents Interacting with an Array of Vertical Emergent Cylinders	2022
Non-Intrusive Density Measurements in a Gravity Current over a Porous Bed	2019
Sensitivity Analysis to the Pilot Channel Geometry in Dam Breach by Overtopping	2019
LES Modelling of a Flow Within an Infinite Array of Randomly Placed Cylinders	2018
A Pressure-Based Impact and PTV Methods Evaluation for Bedload Transport Measurements	2017
Modelling Tsunami-Generated Debris Flow in Urban Environments	2017
Vorticity Fluxes on the Wake of Cylinders Within Random Arrays	2016
2Dh Shallow-Water and Morphology Solver for Strongly Transient Flows	2014
A Tsunami in Lisbon-Assessment of Critical Areas	2014
Experimental Characterization of Drag on Arrays of Rough Cylinders	2014
Failure by Overtopping of Earth Dams. Quantification of the Discharge Hydrograph	2014
Flood Mapping at River Tagus. a Methodology Based on Mathematical Modelling and SAR Imaging	2014
Hydrodynamics of Flow in the Vicinity of Wall-Mounted Cylinder with Fitted Collar	2014
Experimental Characterization of the TKE Budget in Flows with Emergent Vegetation	2013
Turbulent Flow Within a Random Array of Rigid, Emergent Stems: Laboratory Characterization of the Drag Coefficient	2013
Analysis of 3 Rd Order Moments on a Natural Vegetated Flow	2012
Interaction of Different Wavelengths in a Turbulent Flow Within a Random Array of Rigid and Emergent Stems	2012
Multi-Scale Correlation in Turbulent Open-Channel Gravel-Bed River Flows	2012
Analysis of the Autocorrelation Within Turbulent Scales in a Gravel-Bed River	2010
Laboratory Characterization of Turbulent Flow Within a Random Array of Rigid, Emergent Stems	2010
Production and Dissipation of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in the Roughness Layer	2010
A Conceptual Model for Sheet-Flow Drawn from Rapid Granular Flow Theories	2009
Organised Turbulence over Mobile and Immobile Hydraulically Rough Boundaries	2009
Experimental and Numerical Results on the 2D Propagation of Dam-Break Flows over Dry Bed	2005
Mathematical Modeling of the Morphodynamic Aspects of the 1996 Flood in the Ha! Ha! River	2005
Dam-Break Waves over Movable Bed Channels. Experimental Study	2001
On the Structure of the Solution of the Dam-Break Problem over a Cohesionless Erodible Bed	2001

My Videos

Title	Year
Experimental methods and Instrumentation Session of 2nd IAHR Young Professionals Congress	2021
Introduction of 5th W.A.T.E.R. Summer School	2021
Panel Discussion & Concluding - 1st IAHR Online Forum Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	2021
Rui M.L. Ferreira - Introduction	2021
Rui M.L. Ferreira - Activities of the IAHR Technical Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	2021

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date