Solving the World’s Toughest CFD Problems

Ports & Coastal

Port, coastal, and maritime engineering involves challenging applications, ranging from major port redevelopment to coastal defenses and environmental analysis. Engineers working in these application areas must solve problems involving complex interactions between waves, structures, erosion, air entrainment, and variable density flows. With its advanced water-focused models and free surface flow modeling, FLOW-3D HYDRO provides unique capabilities for analyzing these complex scenarios, allowing engineers to model large amplitude non-linear wave propagation over varying topography and coastal structures. FLOW-3D HYDRO is the ideal tool to analyze the performance of wave and structure interaction, including hydrodynamic loading on coastal infrastructure, wave transmission, overtopping, floating structure dynamics, and transport of coastal outfalls.

Description

This simulation, available as a pre-loaded example in FLOW-3D HYDRO, shows the wave loading on a group of piers. The model is configured to output the force calculations for each pier. FLOW-3D HYDRO can be used to accurately model the hydrodynamic forces on piers and other coastal structures, as well as free-floating and moored structures, under a variety of wave conditions.

Ports & Coastal Focused Applications

Coastal structures

Overtopping and wave run up

Wave energy

Breakwaters & wave transmission

Outfalls

Inland waterways

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Advanced Solutions for Collection Systems and Stormwater Hydraulics

Thursday, March 28th at 1:00 p.m. ET

Join us for a FLOW-3D HYDRO webinar focusing on practical solutions for collection systems and stormwater hydraulics using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Samuel Glovick, Professional Engineer at Wade Trim, will join us to discuss how Wade Trim uses 3D CFD in conjunction with 1D and 2D hydraulic models to address complex problems in municipal and stormwater hydraulics.

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