Specialty Workshops FUNDAMENTALS OF CFD MODELING FOR WEIR AND SPILLWAY STRUCTURES
GETTING A HANDLE ON COMMUNICATING RISKS AND BENEFITS OF DAMS
When
When
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Thursday, September 16, 2021
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Registration Fee
Registration Fee
$200
$300
Details
Details
This half-day introductory computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Raising awareness of dams, including their benefits and risks,
workshop is designed for engineers interested in learning the
helps upstream and downstream emergency and flood risk
fundamentals of CFD modeling for weir and spillway structures.
managers and the public take actions to reduce the impacts
The first part covers the essential materials needed to create
of floods and prepare for emergencies. Having a plan to share
a complete CFD model, with a focus on understanding the
relevant and actionable information is key. This session will walk
factors that drive model accuracy (in particular meshing and
participants through how to develop a communication plan and
numerical settings). This knowledge is then applied to worked
use it to guide actions to raise awareness and share information
examples for a range of structures, from ogee spillways to more
about dams with upstream and downstream audiences. This
complex configurations such as stepped spillways, siphons,
full day training session, delivered by the U.S. Army Corps of
and gated structures, as well as Piano Key weirs and Labyrinth
Engineers, will provide participants tools to get started on their
weirs. Throughout the session, we reference high-performance
communication plans for their dams.
computing implementations commonly used for large-scale and high-accuracy modeling. This workshop is delivered in a lecture-like, “follow along” format, with video tutorials of the model setup for all the examples to be downloaded by anyone interested in running the models themselves. To this end, all attendees will be given a 3-month license to a commonly used CFD modeling tool (FLOW-3D HYDRO) in order to further consolidate gains beyond the workshop.
Holston River Labyrinth Weir, Bristol Tennessee
