Liquid Spills, Water Contamination and Dam Breaks
Because of FLUENT's strengths in multiphase modeling, it often has been, and continues to be used to model problems that involve the interface between water and air. Examples of these types of problems include predicting surface waves produced by a surface ship and predicting the load of waves that break against an oil platform.
Fluent's CFD software can help you gain foresight into disasters such as:
- What if a dam breaks?
- What if a storage tank collapses?
- What if there is a liquid natural gas (LNG) spill from a ship into a harbor and it is ignited?
- What if a drinking water reservoir is contaminated? How quickly and how far will it spread?
Liquid Spills & Contamination Further Information
- Cylindrical Containment Dike
- First Wave of Simulation
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Additional Reading
- Frain, Matthew: Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Transport in a Thermally Stratified Reservoir: Contamination Event Preparedness, Poster presented at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate's Conference: Working Together: R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security. Boston: April 27-28, 2005.
- Kennedy, Matt, Ahlfeld, David, Schmidt, David P., and Tobiason, John: Three Dimensional Modeling for Estimation of Hydraulic Retention Time in a Reservoir, submitted to Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2004.
