Course Description

Two-dimensional modelling of rivers and other water bodies is becoming essential practice in many river and coastal flooding, river restoration and pollutant transport studies. Mastering models to simulate such processes is crucial to tackle these demanding projects.

RiverFLO-2D is one of the most advanced hydrodynamic, and mobile bed finite element models for rivers, estuaries and coastal areas. It can handle subcritical and supercritical flows allowing fast and stable simulations of flooding, hydraulics of steep rivers, dam-break floods and sediment transport. This course will provide the basic knowledge and software tools necessary to use the RiverFLO-2D river dynamics model in a variety of applications ranging from river flooding, sediment transport with bed erosion and deposition and pollutant transport.

The course will present the basic theory needed to understand the model functionality and guide participants through the process of practical modelling hands-on exercises using the RiverFLO-2D v3 model. You will learn how to import topographic and bathymetric data in several file formats, manage the data using layers, creating high quality finite element meshes using the state-of-the art mesh generation engine, and generating plots from model results, including maps of temporal data such as velocity fields, depths, water levels, etc.

The course is intended for engineers, environmental and earth scientists, managers and others who would like to learn practical techniques for two-dimensional modelling of water bodies. It will cover conceptual aspects, and practical hand-on sessions. No previous exposure to two-dimensional modelling is required, although a degree in engineering or science (or equivalent experience) is desirable. Those attending can expect to gain an understanding of the state-of-the-art two-dimensional modelling techniques and be in a position to solve and tackle flooding, river morphology and pollutant transport modelling problems.

Registration includes the following:

• Instruction and hands-on use of RiverFLO-2D v3 model and tools
• Course Presentations
• Software CD containing the RiverFLO-2D LT software (2000 element limit)
• Case studies
• Videos
• Tutorials