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Exercise Guide - Broad Crested Weir

This document provides instructions for setting up a simulation of flow over a broad crested weir in FLOW-3D HYDRO. It describes how to import geometry, create a mesh, define boundary conditions like fixed head and outlet elevations, set initial conditions, and run and post-process the simulation. Alternate examples show setting a volume flow rate boundary and defining a transient inflow hydrograph.

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Exercise Guide - Broad Crested Weir

This document provides instructions for setting up a simulation of flow over a broad crested weir in FLOW-3D HYDRO. It describes how to import geometry, create a mesh, define boundary conditions like fixed head and outlet elevations, set initial conditions, and run and post-process the simulation. Alternate examples show setting a volume flow rate boundary and defining a transient inflow hydrograph.

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Workshop

Broad Crested Weir Exercise Guide


This exercise demonstrates the steps to set up a basic free surface or open channel flow simulation in FLOW-
3D HYDRO. It is intended to be a simple and fast running simulation which demonstrates the key setup steps
that can be applied to a wide range of other common open channel flow applications.

Key components of this exercise and model setup include:


• Creating new simulations using templates, copies and restarts.
• Importing geometry from STL files.
• Creating simple mesh configurations.
• Understand how to define boundary conditions for different types of open channel flow simulations.
• Options for how to define simple initial conditions.

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Part 1: Basic Setup

Learning Objectives:
• Create a new simulation using the Free Surface - TruVOF (Default) template.
• Add geometry by importing an STL file.
• Create a simple mesh with uniform cell size and aspect ratio.
• Define an upstream boundary condition as a fixed headwater elevation.
• Define a downstream boundary condition as a subcritical flow outlet.
• Set initial conditions using a global fluid elevation and fluid regions.

Simulation Manager

• From the Simulation Manager


tab, File menu, select the option
for New Workspace…

• Define:
o Name: BC Weir Exercise

• From the Simulation Manager


tab, right click the new
workspace and choose the
option Add New Simulation…

• Define:
o Name: Broad crested weir
o Units: SI
o Pressure Type: Gauge
o Template: Free Surface –
TruVOF

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Global

• Specify the finish and


restart conditions.

• Define:
o Finish time: 20 s

Physics

- Use Defaults

Fluids

- Use Defaults

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Geometry

• Import the weir geometry from


an external STL file
broad_crested_weir.stl as a new
subcomponent.

• Add to New Component (1) as a


General (Solid) component type.

• Set any necessary surface


properties for the geometry
component.

• Define:
o Roughness height: 0.003 m

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Meshing

• Add a new mesh and use the option


Fit to geometry.

• Set the global cell size to 0.09 m.

• Expand the extent of the new mesh


block in the XYZ directions.

• Define:
o X: [-8, 12]
o Y: [0, 3]
o Z: [0, 3.5]

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Boundary Conditions

• Set the upstream mesh face (XMIN) as


a fixed headwater elevation.

• Define:
o BC type: Pressure
o Fluid elevation: 2.5 m

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• Set the downstream mesh boundary
(XMAX) to be defined as a subcritical
flow outlet with a known water
surface elevation.

• Define:
o BC type: Pressure
o Fluid elevation: 1.32 m

• Set the ZMIN boundary to represent a


hydraulically smooth no slip surface.

• Define:
o BC type: Wall

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Initial Conditions

• Set a global initial fluid elevation over


the entire domain to align with the
downstream boundary elevation.

• Define:
o Fluid at height: 1.32m

• Add an additional fluid region upstream


of the weir to align the initial fluid
elevation with boundary condition
elevation.

• Create a fluid region with Geometry


using primitives

• Define:
o X High: 1m
o Z High: 2.5m

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Outputs

- Use Defaults

Numerics

- Use Defaults

Simulate

• Run the simulation on your local


machine.

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Post-Processing

• In the Analyze/Display tabs, create a 3D plot of results.


• Define:
o Iso-surface: Fraction of Fluid
o Color Variable: Velocity Magnitude
o Data Source: Selected
o Component Iso-Surface Overlay: Solid Volume
o Time Frame: [0, 20]

• Click Render to view results in the Display tab.

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• In the Analyze/Display tabs, create a 2D plot of results.
• Define:
o Color Variable: Velocity Magnitude
o Plane: X-Z
o Data Source: Selected
o Time Frame: [0, 20]

• Click Render to view results in Display tab.

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Part 2: Alternate Boundary Conditions 1
• Learning Objectives:
o Create a copy of the existing simulation that can modified with different boundary conditions.
o Define the inflow boundary condition as a specified flow rate.
o Define a downstream boundary condition as a supercritical flow outlet.

Simulation Manager

• From the right-click menu


of Broad Crested Weir,
choose the option to Add
Simulation Copy…

• Retain the name Copy of


Broad Crested Weir and
choose OK to create the
new simulation.

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Boundary Conditions

• Define the upstream mesh face


(XMIN) as specified volume flow rate.

• Define:
o BC type = Volume flow rate
o Volume flow rate = 5.03 cms
o Fluid elevation = 2.5 m

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• Change the downstream mesh
boundary (XMAX) to be a free outfall
for a supercritical outflow condition.

• Define:
o BC type: Pressure
o Fluid distribution type: Use fluid
fraction
o Fluid elevation: 0

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Simulate

• Run the simulation on your local


machine.

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Part 3: Alternate Boundary Conditions 2
• Learning Objectives:
o Create a Restart to continue running a new simulation from an existing result file.
o Define a transient boundary condition by specifying an inflow hydrograph.

Simulation Manager

• From the right-click menu


of Copy of Broad Crested
Weir, choose the option
Restart from Simulation…

• Retain the name Restart of


Copy of Broad Crested
Weir and choose OK to
create the new simulation.

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Global

• In the Restart Options


check the box to Reset
time to zero.

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Boundary Conditions

• Define the upstream mesh face


(XMIN) as a specified hydrograph and
calculate the water surface elevation
assuming a subcritical inflow
condition.

• Define:
o BC type = Volume flow rate
o Volume flow rate:
Time (s) Q (cms)
0 5.03
2 5.75
5 6
7 6.1
9 6
14 5.5
o Fluid elevation type = Natural
inlet, subcritical flow
o Min elevation = 1.5 m
o Max elevation = 3.5 m

Simulate

• Run the simulation on your local


machine.

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