ADEC Brisbane: CFD modelling for drainage design
Thu, 24 Oct
|Rydges Fortitude Valley
CFD is fancy modelling for flooding people right? Wrong. It's time to pick up your drainage modelling game and learn about potential CFD modelling applications for drainage.
Time & Location
24 Oct 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Rydges Fortitude Valley, Reception entrance via Carriage St, 601 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
About the event
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling has been applied to Australian civil engineering hydraulics projects for decades. However, CFD has yet to be broadly adopted within the Australian drainage industry. This event will review potential opportunities for CFD modelling of drainage applications, explore drainage CFD case studies, present an overview of the typical CFD modelling workflow, and discuss what skills are required to conduct CFD modelling.
CFD in the drainage industry
Conveying water in drainage infrastructure offers some of the most exciting and challenging applications for hydraulic engineers. The hydraulics in these applications offer combinations of free surface and pressurised flow conditions, often with extremely turbulent and energetic flows, in which considerations of the air phase, air entrainment, or grit and sediment movement are equally important. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling provides the ability to conduct advanced, three-dimensional investigations of conveyance infrastructure, including drainage pits, hydraulic control structures, drop structures, flow