Numerical Modelling for Water Engineering
Development of CFD and other numerical models is a core activity across the PaCE institute with particular expertise relating to water as well as application in airborne infection control. Research considers flow dynamics and interaction between fluids and solids as well as linking in chemical and biological processes.
Current interests within the group include:
- Assessing the risk of infection through consumption of wastweter irrigated crops using QMRA
- Modelling tools for design and management of wastewater systems
- Simplified Sewerage design
- Simplified Sewerage design
- Resilience and Risk of failure of water distribution systems through novel Complex Network analysis
- Hydraulic performance of water supply structures including wells, distribution networks and reservoirs
- Dam break simulation in one and two dimensions
- Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations including
- Waste Stabilisation Ponds
- Bio gas reactors
- Simulation of river flows over structures for flood prediction and allevlation
- Full 3D free-surface simulations used to extend rating curves for complex weirs