**Harry Edmar Schulz, André Luiz Andrade Simões and Raquel Jahara Lobosco**  University of São Paulo Brazil

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impose catastrophic consequences in a whole region. For example, the permanent leakage of petroleum in one point in the ocean may affect the life along the entire region covered by the marine currents that transport this oil. Gases or liquids, the changes in the quality of the fluids in which we live certainly affect our quality of life.

The knowledge about fluids, their movements, and their ability to transport physical properties and compounds is thus recognized as important for life. As a consequence, thinking about new solutions for general or specific problems in Hydromechanics may help to attain a sustainable relationship with our environment. Re-contextualizing the classical discussion about the truth, in which it was suggested that the "thinking" is the guarantee of our "existence" (St. Augustine, 386a, b, 400), we can say that we agree that thinking guarantees the human existence, and that there are too many warriors, and too few thinkers. Following this re-contextualized sense, it was also said that the man is a bridge between the "animal" and "something beyond the man" (Nietzsche, 1883). This is an interesting metaphor, because bridges are built crossing fluids (even abysms are filled with fluids). Considering all possible interpretations of this phrase,

let us study and understand the fluids, and let us help to build the bridge.

Dulsecker at Strassburg in 1738.

and Geneva in 1743.

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**Tidal and Wave Dynamics:** 

**Rivers, Lakes and Reservoirs** 
