O surfe é uma importante atividade recreativa e econômica que envolve interação humana com diversos ambientes costeiros e a cada ano que passa está expandindo tanto em locais tradicionais, quanto alcançando novos ambientes. ...

This work aims to characterize the Vila de Regência, through a qualitative analysis, according to the Save The Waves Coalition criteria for the certification of a World Surfing Reserve. Regência beach is located in Foz do ...

Laboratory experiments are conducted in a wave facility with a loose sediment beach in order to estimate the wave characteristics needed for sediment transport modeling. A roller model and a Boussinesq-type model are used ...

This study evaluates the hypothesis that detached macroalgae (drift algae) influence the structure of fish communities in the surf-zones of two tropical sandy beaches from the central coast of Brazil. Surf-zone seine hauls ...

To describe the strongly nonlinear dynamics of waves propagating in the final stages of shoaling and in the surf and swash zones, fully nonlinear models are required. The ability of the Serre or Green Naghdi (S-GN) equations ...