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

This course focuses on estuarine, coastal and marine processes as well as the resulting morphological features and their morphodynamic behavior at various time scales.

The course starts with wave dynamics. To simulate the evolution of random, short-crested wind generated waves in coastal waters (which may include estuaries, tidal inlets, barrier islands with tidal flats, channels etc.) the new wave module D-Waves of the Delft3D FM Suite is designed. This wave module computes wave propagation, wave generation by wind, non-linear wave-wave interactions and dissipation, for a given bottom topography, wind field, water level and current field in waters of deep, intermediate and finite depth.

The second part of the course focuses on morphodynamic modelling. The D-Morphology module of the Delft3D FM Suite integrates the effects of waves, currents, sediment transport on morphological development, related to sediment sizes ranging from silt to gravel. It is designed to simulate the morphodynamic behavior of rivers, estuaries and coasts on time-scales of days to years. The typical problems to be studied using the morphological module involve complex interactions between waves, currents, sediment transport and bathymetry. To allow such interactions, the individual modules within Delft3D FM Suite all interact through a well-defined common interface.

In this course, presentations, hand-on case study and papers are used to develop skills in analyzing and solving morphodynamic problems.

Some areas of applications are

• The D-Waves module can optionally be coupled with the other modules of the Delft3D FM Suite. In this way an efficient and direct coupling is obtained between e.g. the D-Flow FM module (wave driven currents) and the D-Morphology module (stirred by wave breaking);
• Coastal areas including beaches, channels, sand bars, harbour moles, offshore breakwaters, groynes and other structures. The coastal areas may be intersected by tidal inlets or rivers, parts of it may be drying and flooding;
• Rivers including bars, river bends (spiralflow effect), bifurcations, non-erodible layers, dredging operations and having arbitrary cross-sections (with overbankflow). Various structures may be included;
• Estuaries including tidal inlets and river deltas influenced by tidal currents, river discharges and density currents due to sediment. Sediment can be non-cohesive (sand) or cohesive (silt). The areas may include drying and flooding, channels and man-made structures, e.g. docks, jetties and land reclamations.

Objective of the course

Participants will learn:

• A basic theoretical understanding of Delft3D FM morphology capabilities and functionalities.
• Knowledge on how to apply the software for research or consultancy studies.

Course subjects

• Introduction on wave prediction in coastal areas and wave models;
• D-Waves module (SWAN engine) as used in the Delft3D FM Suite;
• Introduction on steering the different processes;
• Setting up and running wave simulation;
• D-Morphology module as used in the Delft3D FM Suite;
• Setting up and running wave-current interaction simulation;
• Setting up and running morphology simulation;
• Setting up and running wave-current-morphology simulation for coastal areas or rivers.

This course is aimed at

Project engineers, project leaders, consultants, and researchers.

Prerequisite knowledge:

• Basic Hydrodynamic
• Coastal Hydrodynamics course – A Delft3D Flexible Mesh training in Coastal Hydrodynamics

Online format

This course is a blended educational experience, meaning that both self-paced modules and instructor led sessions are held.

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, 1 November 2022, 14:00 – 15:00 CET (Delft time, UTC+1):
  Presentation: General course introduction
• Session 2: Thursday, 3 November 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 CET:
  Q&A session D-Waves
• Session 3: Friday, 4 November 2022
  13:00 – 14:00 CET: Presentations: Sediment transport & Morphodynamics
  14.00 – 15.30 CET: Exercise instructions
• Session 4: Monday, 7 November 2022
  13:00 – 14:00 CET: Q&A session: D-Morphology (Breakwater)
  14:00 – 15:00 CET: Presentation: Modelling guidelines
• Session 5: Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 CET:
  Q&A session D-Morphology (Tidal inlet)
• Session 6: Friday, 11 November 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 CET:
  Q&A session D-Morphology (Western Scheldt) and closing.

Course leaders

dr. Q. (Qinghua) Ye and dr. B. (Björn) Röbke and Caroline Gautier, Deltares

Fee

The registration fee for this course is € 1.550, – 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 10 minutes before the start of the session.

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