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Hydrodynamic modeling with Delft3D

Date & Time: July 6-8 and July 11, 2022 (Wed-Fri and Mon)
13:00 – 19:00 CEST
Place: Building 50.31, Room 322, Gotthard-Franz-Str. 3
Online: Participants from UFPR and ABRHidro can join this hybrid
course via MS Teams
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Tobias Bleninger (UFPR, Curitiba)
Credits: 3

This course is offered as joint international course, hosted by GRACE in


cooperation with PPGERHA (Graduate Program on Water Resources and
Environmental Engineering), PPGEA (Graduate Program of Environmental
Engineering) from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, and
also promoted by the Brazilian Association for Water Resources (ABRHidro).

Context and Background


Hydrodynamic modeling is an essential method to study scenarios for hydro-
environmental problems, such as pollutant or cooling water discharges, sediment
transport, lake eutrophication, river training, etc. Delft3D is a world leading 3D
modeling suite to investigate hydrodynamics, sediment transport and
morphology and water quality for fluvial, estuarine and coastal environments.
Since 2011, the Delft3D flow (FLOW), morphology (MOR) and waves (WAVE)
modules are available in open source. The hydrodynamic module Delft3D-FLOW
is a multidimensional hydrodynamic simulation program that calculates non-
steady flow and transport phenomena resulting from tidal and meteorological
forcing. The primary purpose of the computational model Delft3D-FLOW is to
solve various two- and three-dimensional, time-dependent, non-linear partial
differential equations related to hydrostatic free-surface flow problems. The
equations are formulated in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates on a plane or in
spherical coordinates on the globe. The hydrodynamic module is based on the
shallow water equations. The equations are solved with a robust and highly
accurate solution procedure.

Some supported features are:


• Propagation of long waves (barotropic flow)
• Density gradients due to a non-uniform temperature and salinity
concentration distribution (density driven flows)
• Transport of dissolved material and pollutants
• Transport of sediments, including erosion, sedimentation and bed load
transport
• Many options for boundary conditions, such as water level, velocity and
discharge boundaries
• Simulation of drying and flooding of inter-tidal flats
• Turbulence modeling to account for the vertical turbulent viscosity and
diffusivity

Topics
Review of governing equations of fluid mechanics for environmental
systems. Revision of numerical methods and stability, as well as data

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handling. Introduction into grid generation. Introduction on bathymetry
interpolation. Modeling hydrodynamics and density effects. Postprocessing.
Revision of governing processes of sediment transport and water quality
modeling. Introduction to Wave Modeling. Applications for coastal waters, rivers
and lakes.

Objectives
Create the ability to plan, setup and execute 2D and 3D hydrodynamic
simulations with Delft3D, and using post-processing features.

Course format
The course will be offered as hybrid course. Participants from Karlsruhe are highly
encouraged to attend in presence. Participants from UFPR and ABRHidro can join
remotely as online course. Technical requirements are thus listed as follows:
• Internet connection
• Up to date PC or notebook with Windows Operational System (the course
only provides compiled software executables for Windows)
• Webcam and headphone for videoconferencing (for online participants)
The course will be offered within the platform Microsoft Teams, where files will
be provided and shared and chats, conferencing and scheduling will be handled.
For details on the schedule and further preparation for this course, please follow
the link to the course website.

Recommended pre-requisites
Participants should have a background on fluid mechanics, hydraulics and
mathematics.

Certificate
Full-time participation to obtain certificate of participation (usually for GRACE
students)
or
Full-time participation and one graded group work (mixed international group)
to obtain certificate with grades (usually required for UFPR students). Group work
will be for a specific flow simulation project (data provided by course or own data
can be used too). The work should be summarized as report, including the
following items:
• Site description and context
• Available data and boundary conditions
• Model description and setup
• Model simulations for at least 2 scenarios (e.g. high and low resolution
grid with different boundary conditions or forcings)
• Post-processing (figures, graphs, animations, comparison of scenarios)
• Being summarized in a project report

About the lecturer


Tobias Bleninger is Professor (2011) for Environmental Fluid Mechanics and
Applied Mathematics at the Department of Environmental Engineering of the
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. He is a Civil Engineer (2000)
from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he did his

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Doctor in Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2006) and lead the research group of
Environmental Fluid Mechanics of the Institute for Hydromechanics (2007-2011).
Tobias Bleninger has experience in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics with focus on
physical and numerical modeling of Mixing and Transport Processes of
Environmental Fluid Systems. A special topic are mixing studies for submarine
outfalls using and coupling the models CORMIX and Delft3D, as well as
considering transport phenomena in hydropower reservoirs, waterway fluvial
hydraulics, and coastal sediment transport projects.

Contact and further information: Tobias Bleninger at UFPR

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4. Please register also for the free Open-Source License at:
https://oss.deltares.nl/web/delft3d/source-code before the course (further
instructions on installation will be provided throughout the course).

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