Delft3D FM - Coastal Hydrodynamic Modelling Course (blended educational experience)

Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, our Delft3D Flexible Mesh – Coastal Hydrodynamic Modelling course introduces grid generation for flexible grids, unique bathymetry interpolation methods, quickly setting up and running two-dimensional (2D) coastal – estuarine D-Flow FM models and analysing results using the Delft3D FM build-in post-processing tools and third-party tools.

The Delft3D Flexible Mesh Suite (Delft3D FM) is the successor of the structured Delft3D 4 Suite. The Delft3D FM Suite can simulate storm surges, typhoons / hurricanes, tsunamis, detailed flows and water levels, waves, sediment transport and morphology, water quality and ecology and is capable of handling the interactions between these processes. The key component of Delft3D FM is the D-Flow Flexible Mesh (D-Flow FM) engine for hydrodynamical simulations on unstructured grids in 1D-2D-3D. D-Flow FM is the successor of Delft3D-FLOW and in the near future of SOBEK-1DFLOW.

Like Delft3D-FLOW, D-Flow FM is capable of handling curvilinear grids, that provide very good performance in terms of computational speed and accuracy. Further to that, the grid may now also consist of triangles, quads, pentagons and hexagons. This provides optimal modelling flexibility and ease in setting up new model grids or modifying existing ones, or locally increasing resolution. Both Cartesian and spherical coordinate systems are supported. The grid generation tool RGFGRID includes new grid generation and orthogonalization algorithms for the construction of unstructured grids.

Some areas of applications

• Tide and wind-driven flow;
• Drying and flooding of inter-tidal flats;
• Hydrodynamic impact of engineering works such as land reclamation, breakwaters, dikes.

Objective of the course

Running a 2D hydrodynamic model.

Course subjects

• Introduction into grid generation for flexible grids
• Introduction on bathymetry interpolation
• Set-up of hydrodynamic model and running this model
• Introduction on postprocessing.

This course is aimed at

Project engineers, project leaders and researchers.

Online format

This course is a blended educational experience, meaning that both self-paced modules and instructor led sessions are held. During 3 consecutive interactive sessions, you’ll progress from the basics of grid generation to running and analysing a 2D hydrodynamic model.

Course participants will be provided with the Delft3D FM Suite + course license one month file valid as a starting point, and access to the online course materials for 1 year.

In preparation of the training, we’ll send you all the material and will ask you to install the Delft3D FM Suite on your own machine. While attending the training, it will be essential that you have a sufficiently fast internet connection to support a video call, as well as a headset.

The use of Windows is required for the Delft3D courses. For the Technical Specifications of the Delft3D FM Suite, click here.

Online course dates

Session 1: Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 9:00 – 13:00 CET (Delft time, UTC+2)
Session 2: Thursday, 6 October 2022, 9:00 – 13:00 CET
Session 3: Tuesday 11 October 2022, 9:00 – 13:00 CET

Course leader

Stendert Laan, Deltares

Fee

The registration fee for this course is € 1.199,- excluding VAT.
50% discount for lecturers at centers of education. To qualify for the discount, please contact Deltares Academy.

REGISTRATION

Please sign in (top right corner) using your MyDeltares account. 

If you already have either a DSD or OSS account and no MyDeltares account yet, then click on the link Forgot Password? to setup your MyDeltares account including a new password. Once you have completed the password reset you can login. 

After the MyDeltares registration or signing in, it will be possible for you to register for individual 2022 events, get a personal overview (My schedule), make changes in your schedule, profile etc. 

You will receive an email confirmation from Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) with further instructions.

If you come across any problems with the registration, please contact our team at mydeltares@deltares.nl. 

START OF THE SESSION

Please check in early to test your audio and video. We will open the session at 08:50 (CET, Delft time), 10 minutes before the start of the session.

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