Preparing waterfront cities for extreme coastal hazards: Advances in modeling, multi-hazard risk assessment and early warning
Description
Waterfront cities face unprecedented challenges from coastal hazards—hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, and storm surge—compounded by sea-level rise and inland floods, creating multifaceted destruction of extraordinary complexity. Traditional computational methods, design approaches and existing risk assessment procedures are currently inadequate for predicting accurately the (i) interaction of water hazards with the built environment, (ii) impact of secondary effects, like water-borne debris and vehicle washout, (iii) cascading infrastructure failure and (iv) multi-hazard scenarios. Moreover, although early warning systems have been developed in different areas around the world (e.g. EFAS in Europe NWPS in the US) they are typically limited to single hazards and the fact that focus on the occurrence of the hazards and not its impact on infrastructure that is critical for emergency response and recovery (e.g. transportation, communications). The aim of this special session is to gather the latest advances that will help waterfront cities to better ANTICIPATE, ALERT and RESPOND to extreme coastal hazards.
Particular themes of interest include:
- Novel physical models and experimental tests that decipher the complex interaction of coastal hazards with the built environment
- Advanced hydraulic, hydrodynamic and computational fluid dynamics studies of flow impact on structures, including coupled multi-fidelity models
- Multiphysics computational methods that quantify the fluid-structure-interaction and expected structural damage
- Multi-hazard (compound and cascading) and multi-scale risk assessment models
- Surrogate models and AI-driven algorithms for early warning and impact-based forecasting systems
- Digital technologies (satellite Earth observations, IoT sensors, UAV data) and decision support systems for risk management in waterfront cities
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 March 2026