Departamento de Física Aplicada
Área de Física de la Tierra
Dirección:
Edificio Campus Auga.
Universidade de Vigo, Campus Sur.
Rúa Canella da Costa da Vela 12
32004 Ourense, España
Laboratorio: 1.5
e-mail: jgcao@uvigo.es
Teléfono: +34 988 368 791
Scopus ID: 55341979800
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0908-7216
Publicaciones
J. González-Cao, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, N.G. deCastro, H. Barreiro-Fonta, M. deCastro, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2026) Impact of dams on river regime and extreme flow events in MIÑO–SIL river basin (NW of the IBERIAN peninsula), CATENA, Vol. 264, 109836 : DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2026.109836 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, H. Barreiro-Fonta, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, O. García-Feal (2025) Enhancing Flood Risk Management: A Review on Numerical Modelling of Past Flood Events, Hydrology, Vol. 12, Issue 6 ; DOI: 10.3390/hydrology12060133 (Published) [pdf]
M. deCastro, J. González-Cao, N.G. deCastro, J.J. Taboada, J. M. Vaquero, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2025) Assessing the most severe subsistence crisis of the 18th century in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula: a climatological perspective, Climate of the Past, Vol. 21, Issue 2; DOI: 10.5194/cp-21-593-2025 (Published) [pdf]
D. Fernández-Nóvoa, J. González-Cao, O. García-Feal (2024) Enhancing Flood Risk Management: A Comprehensive Review on Flood Early Warning Systems with Emphasis on Numerical Modeling, Water, Vol. 16 Issue 10, 1408 ; DOI: 10.3390/w16101408 (Published) [pdf]
D. Fernández-Nóvoa, A.M. Ramos, J. González-Cao, O. García-Feal, C. Catita, M. Gómez-Gesteira, R.M. Trigo (2024) How to mitigate flood events similar to the 1979 catastrophic floods in the lower Tagus, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 24, Issue 2, 609-630; DOI: 10.5194/nhess-24-609-2024 (Published) [pdf]
D. Fernández-Nóvoa, J. González-Cao, J. R. Figueira, C. Catita, O. García-Feal, M. Gómez-Gesteira, R.M. Trigo (2023) Numerical simulation of the deadliest flood event of Portugal: Unravelling the causes of the disaster, Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 896, 165092 ; DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165092 (Published) [pdf]
D. Fernández-Nóvoa, O. García-Feal, J. González-Cao, M. deCastro, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2022) Multiscale flood risk assessment under climate change: the case of the Miño River in the city of Ourense, Spain, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 22, 3957–3972; DOI: 10.5194/nhess-22-3957-2022 (Published) [pdf]
O. García-Feal, J. González-Cao, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, G. Astray Dopazo, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2022) Comparison of machine learning techniques for reservoir outflow forecasting, NHESS, Vol. 22, Issue 12, 3859-3874; DOI: 10.5194/nhess-22-3859-2022 (Published) [pdf]
G. García-Alen, J. González-Cao, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, M. Gómez-Gesteira, L. Cea, J. Puertas (2022) Analysis of two sources of variability of basin outflow hydrographs computed with the 2D shallow water model Iber: Digital Terrain Model and unstructured mesh size, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 612, Part B, 128182 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128182 (Published) [pdf]
S. Wang, J. González-Cao, H. Islam, M. Gómez-Gesteira, C. Guedes Soares (2022) Uncertainty estimation of mesh-free and mesh-based simulations of the dynamics of floaters, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 256, 111386. DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.111386 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, O. García-Feal, J. R. Figueira, J.M. Vaquero, R.M. Trigo, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2022) The Rivillas flood of 5–6 November 1997 (Badajoz, Spain) revisited: An approach based on Iber+ modelling, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 610, 127883. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127883 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, O. García-Feal, J. R. Figueira, J.M. Vaquero, R.M. Trigo, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2021) Numerical reconstruction of historical extreme floods: The Guadiana event of 1876, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 599, 126292; DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126292 (Published) [pdf]
B.Tagliafierro, A.J.C. Crespo, J. González-Cao, C. Altomare, J. Sande, C. Peña, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2020) Numerical modelling of a multi-chambered low-reflective caisson, Applied Ocean Research, Volume 103, October 2020, 102325 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2020.102325 (Published) [pdf]
D. Fernández-Nóvoa, O. García-Feal, J. González-Cao, C. de Gonzalo, J. A. Rodríguez-Suárez, C. Ruiz del Portal, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2020) MIDAS: A New Integrated Flood Early Warning System for the Miño River, Water, 2020, Vol. 12 Issue 9, 2319; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092319 (Published) [pdf]
O. García-Feal, L. Cea, J. González-Cao, J.M. Dominguez, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2020) IberWQ: A GPU Accelerated Tool for 2D Water Quality Modeling in Rivers and Estuaries, Water, 2020, Vol. 12 Issue 2, 413; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020413 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, O. García-Feal, D. Fernández-Nóvoa, J.M. Dominguez, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2019) Towards an automatic early warning system of flood hazards based on precipitation forecast: the case of the Miño River (NW Spain), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 19, 2583–2595, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2583-2019 (Published) [pdf]
J.M. Dominguez, C. Altomare, J. González-Cao, P. Lomonaco (2019) Towards a more complete tool for coastal engineering: solitary wave generation, propagation and breaking in an SPH-based model, Coastal Engineering Journal, Vol. 61, - Issue 1, Pages: 15-40, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21664250.2018.1560682 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, C. Altomare, A.J.C. Crespo, J.M. Dominguez, M. Gómez-Gesteira, D. Kisacik (2019) On the accuracy of DualSPHysics to assess violent collisions with coastal structures, Computers & Fluids, Vol. 179, Pages 604-612 (Published) [pdf]
O.S. Areu-Rangel, J. González-Cao, A.J.C. Crespo, R. Bonasia (2019) Numerical modelling of hydrological safety assignment in dams with IBER, Sustainable Water Resources Management, March 2019, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp 347–358, DOI: 10.1007/s40899-017-0135-2 (Published) [pdf]
O. García-Feal, J. González-Cao, M. Gómez-Gesteira, L. Cea, J.M. Dominguez, A. Formella (2018) An Accelerated Tool for Flood Modelling Based on Iber, Water, 2018, 10(10), 1459; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w10101459 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, O. García-Feal, J.M. Dominguez, A.J.C. Crespo, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2018) Analysis of the hydrological safety of dams combining two numerical tools: Iber and DualSPHysics, Journal of Hydrodynamics, February 2018, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp 87–94, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42241-018-0009-6 (Published) [pdf]
J. González-Cao, L. R. Alejano, E. Alonso, F. G. Bastante (2018) Convergence-confinement curve analysis of excavation stress and strain resulting from blast-induced damage, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Volume 73, March 2018, Pages 162–169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tust.2017.12.005 (Published) [pdf]
R. Bonasia, O.S. Areu-Rangel, D. Tolentino, I. Mendoza-Sanchez, J. González-Cao, J. Klapp (2018) Flooding hazard assessment at Tulancingo (Hidalgo, Mexico), Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume11, IssueS2 February 2018 Pages S1116-S1124 DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12312 (Published) [pdf]
A.J.C. Crespo, C. Altomare, J.M. Dominguez, J. González-Cao, M. Gómez-Gesteira (2017) Towards simulating floating offshore oscillating water column converters with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Coastal Engineering, vol: 126, pages: 11-26, doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.05.001 (Published) [pdf]
C. Altomare, J.M. Dominguez, A.J.C. Crespo, J. González-Cao, T. Suzuki, M. Gómez-Gesteira, P. Troch (2017) Long-crested wave generation and absorption for SPH-based DualSPHysics model, Coastal Engineering, doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.06.004 (Published) [pdf]