Hydraulic structures design

Free surface hydraulic computational modelling; steady and unsteady state

Flood routing

Surge analysis in open channels

Surge analysis in penstocks, pipelines, pumped pipelines

Scour analysis and scour prediction

Supervision of physical hydraulic model studies

Hydraulics structures capacity assessment e.g. bridges, culverts

Fish passage design

Flood management strategies for systems (cascades, storages, strings)

Professional advice can be provided by Damwatch's team of professional dam designers, specialising in fields of:

• Hydrology.
• River hydraulics.
• Mechanical engineering.
• Environmental sciences.
• Materials technology.
• Structural engineering.
• Civil engineering.
• Mechanical engineering.

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Peer reviews can be limited to certain key parts of the engineering work.
A peer review is intended to reveal issues rather than necessarily resolve them. But it can be a key resource for subsequent work towards resolving any issues that are identified.
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Coastal protection

The Damwatch team provides highly qualified CFD engineers with experience in the analysis of hydraulic structures such as spillways, low-level outlets and canals.
Damwatch offer services covering the entire CFD process, from the generation of the 3D geometry from existing data, to the CFD model set up, validation, simulation, and extraction and analysis of results.
Damwatch's investment in High Performance Computing (HPC) allows us to tackle large scale models while maintaining reasonable project delivery times.
We use the open source CFD software package OpenFOAM.