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Computational Fluid Dynamics in Hydraulic Engineering

Velocity vectors during simulation of sediment depositoin in Lake Mills, USA

OpenFOAM sediment solver

More information about the sediDriftFoam OpenFOAM sediment solver

Cases

Water and sedimentflow in a hydropower reservoir (ended 1999)
Singular loss in a gate plug (ended 1994)
Vortex shedding around a cylinder (1996-2023)
Sediment flow in a sand trap (ended 1993)
Velocity field in a natural river with large roughness (ended 1994)
Local scour around a circular cylinder (1990-1998)
Turbidity current in a hydropower reservoir (ended 1997)
Turbidity current in a flume (ended 1998)
Water currents under the ice of Lake Sperillen, Norway (ended 2000)
Formation of a meandering channel (ended 2007)
Flow over a rough bed (ended 2010)
Sediment flow in the delta of Lake Oyern (ended 2011)
V-shaped weir - free surface (ended 2015)
Modelling formation and migration of antidunes (ended 2017)
Modelling sediment flow in the Iffezheim reservoir (currently ongoing)
Sediment flow in Lake Mills (ended 2020)
Braided channel development (ended 2021)
Tracer stones movement (ended 2021)
Formation of sedimentary structures under antidunes (currently ongoing)
Turbidity current modelling in a flume (currently ongoing)

Documents

Numerical modelling and hydraulics - A course textbook (2016)
Users Manual for SSIIM (2018)

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Last updated 10. September 2023.