Computational Hydraulics for Transportation Workshop

Day 1    Wednesday, September 23, 2009

9:00           David Weber,   Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center

                              Welcome to TRACC

9:15           Kornel Kerenyi,   Federal Highway Administration

Overview of the J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory and the research plans for the next ten years at the FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)

10:00         Steven Lottes,   TRACC

                              TRACC Facilities, Computational Fluid Dynamics Mission and Users

10:45         Break

11:00         Fotis Sotiropoulos,   University of Minnesota

Physics-based High-Resolution Numerical Modeling of Bridge Foundation Scour: Recent Advances and Future Ventures

12:00         Working Lunch

                              Progress and Research in Scour Analysis

1:00           Hamn-Ching Chen,   Texas A&M University

CFD Simulation of Bridge Scour in Cohesive Soils Including

Overtopping Flow Conditions

2:00           Weiming Wu,   University of Mississippi

A Sediment Entrainment Function for Simulation of Local Scour near In-stream Structures Based on 3-D RANS Model

3:00           Break

3:15           George Constantinescu,   University of Iowa

A numerical investigation of the structure of flow and turbulence around bridge piers and abutments at different stages of the scouring process

4:15           Discussion: Steven Lottes moderator

 Paths Forward in Scour Modeling Research

4:45           Break for the day

Day 2    Thursday, September 24, 2009

9:00           Robert Reynolds, CD-adapco

Hydraulic and scour modeling capabilities and plans for

STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+

10:15         Break

10:30         Aleksandra Egelja-Maruszewski (contact – speaker to be determined), ANSYS

Hydraulic and scour modeling capabilities and plans for FLUENT

11:45         Working Lunch

                              Commercial CFD Scour Capabilities and Plans

12:45         Travis Carver and James Brethour, Flow Science

                              Hydraulic and scour modeling capabilities and plans for FLOW-3D

2:00           Break

2:15           Xiaofeng Liu,   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

                              Numerical Models for Scour around Objects under Currents and Waves

3:15           Discussion: Tanju Sofu Moderator

CFD modeling Requirements for Full Scale Real Bridge Scour Analysis

 and How to Achieve Them

4:00           Workshop Closing Comments