Conveyance Infrastructure
Moving water in and around cities offers some of the most exciting and challenging applications for CFD modelers. The hydraulics in these applications offer infinite variations of free surface and pressurized flow conditions, with sometimes extremely turbulent and energetic flows, in which considerations of the air phase, air entrainment and bulking, or grit and sediment movement are equally important. FLOW-3D HYDRO has a long history of delivering extraordinarily accurate representations of the flow, and allows modelers to tap into many advanced modeling features to further capture air phase and grit considerations. FLOW-3D HYDRO provides advanced investigations of conveyance infrastructure, including hydraulic control structures, drop structures, flow splitters, energy dissipators, pump stations, CSOs, sewers and wet tunnel designs.
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Baffle drop shafts transport storm water to underground tunnels for storage and transport. FLOW-3D HYDRO can be used to compare drop shaft design elements such as shaft diameter and baffle spacing, which affect the flow velocity, amount of entrained air entrained, and other flow features. For more information about FLOW-3D HYDRO‘s storm water modeling capabilities, go to https://www.flow3d.com/products/flow-3d-hydro/conveyance-infrastructure/.
FLOW-3D POST ray trace rendering of a FLOW-3D HYDRO model of an energy dissipating baffled outlet. Learn more about FLOW-3D HYDRO‘s advanced CFD modeling solution for the civil and environmental engineering industry at www.flow3d.com/hydro
Under certain flow conditions tangential dropshaft are effective by promoting the formation of a vortex core in the dropshaft as the flow is propagated to lower elevations. FLOW-3D HYDRO offers multiple modeling approaches to help engineers model free surface flow characteristics, and evaluate the energy dissipation, downdraft and air entrainment behaviors of the system.
FLOW-3D HYDRO example of flow in a baffle drop structure: advanced free surface modeling capabilities deliver an extraordinarily accurate representation of the flow, even in very complex conditions like those found in a drop structure. Courtesy NEORSD, Wade Trim, and IIHR. Learn more about FLOW-3D HYDRO‘s complete CFD modeling solution at https://www.flow3d.com/products/flow-3d-hydro/
Combined Sewer Overflow hydraulic structures come in all sorts of design flavors. FLOW-3D HYDRO allows for detailed analyses of the hydraulics in dry and wet tunnel conditions. To learn more about simulations like these, go to https://www.flow3d.com/products/flow-3d-hydro/conveyance-infrastructure/
Flow splitters, such as the one shown here, consist of specifically designed elements such as pipes, orifices and weirs and are often used to redirect flows in stormwater conveyance structures/systems. FLOW-3D HYDRO simulations can be used to understand the hydraulic behavior and performance of such systems under various operational flow rates. Learn more about FLOW-3D HYDRO‘s flow modeling solutions for the water & environmental industry at https://www.flow3d.com/products/flow-3d-hydro/conveyance-infrastructure/
Steve Saunders, Principal at the Ibis Group discusses modeling hydraulic jumps in a trench type pump sump and a successful implementation at the Magnolia Storm Water Pumping Station in El Paso, TX. Read the case study at https://www.flow3d.com/hydraulic-jump-in-a-trench-type-pump-sump/
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Drop structures