June 26-27, 2008 | Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK This course counts for 12 hours of Continued Professional Development.   QUICK LINKS   Course Description TUFLOW Overview SMS Overview Course Topics Instructors Cost Location

TUFLOW, an exciting addition to the suite of models in the Surface-water Modeling System, is widely used and highly popular within Australia and the UK. It is a powerful 1D and 2D computational engine for simulating floods, tides and pipe network hydraulics, and offers unparalleled 1D/2D dynamic linking functionality. TUFLOW is suited to a wide range of hydraulic modelling applications including broad-scale coastal storm tide inundation; major and complex river flooding; and fine-scale urban stormwater inundation.
The course is designed as a hands-on application-oriented training course in the TUFLOW modeling system. It provides the students with a thorough understanding of the capabilities and methods of application of the TUFLOW model and the new SMS TUFLOW Interface. Tutorial data from the course are provided for each attendee.

TUFLOW Overview

TUFLOW is a powerful and widely applied 1D/2D hydraulic model. Its strengths include:

• rapid and stable wetting and drying
• robust and flexible 1D and 2D dynamic linking options
• multiple 2D domains and 2D/2D linking (optional module)
• 1D and 2D representation of hydraulic structures
• automatic upstream/downstream controlled flow regime switching
• 1D and 2D supercritical flow
• highly flexible and efficient data handling
• GIS based
• extensive quality control outputs

SMS Overview

SMS is a graphical interface to setup, visualize, and evaluate hydraulic models.
SMS offers a highly functional Graphical User Interface for the TUFLOW model. The GUI assists the modeler through greater efficiencies and management of model data layers and output that makes working with numerical models easier. Some of the features of the interface include:

• Creation of grids and visualization of topography and bathymetry
• Conceptual model approach uses GIS style objects to build the model
• Delineation of 1D flowpaths including pipe networks
• Multiple 2D and/or 1D domains, linked or unlinked, within the same simulation
• Supports multiple simulations to evaluate different events and/or model configurations
• 1D and 2D hydraulic structures
• Powerful topographic modification options to easily simulate “what-if?” scenarios such as levees
• Import GIS data tools for use in the model
• Comprehensive post-processing tools for model output (contours, vector fields, animations, etc)

Course Topics Covered:

• Working with TIN and image data
• Creating a conceptual model
• Building 1D and 1D/2D hydraulic TUFLOW models
• Adding levees and other topographic modifications
• 1D and 2D control structures
• Direct rainfall onto 2D domains and underground pipe network modeling
• 1D/2D/3D model output visualization
• Presentation and results from leading-edge case studies

Instructors

Rusty Jones. Rusty is the SMS development team leader at Aquaveo. He has been an SMS developer for 10 years. He is the primary author of the TUFLOW interface in SMS and spent six months working with Bill Syme, the author of TUFLOW, learning TUFLOW and working on the SMS interface.

Cost

£500 + VAT per person

Includes:

• Two day course
• Lunch and morning/afternoon refreshments are provided

Location

JBA Consulting, Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK

To register or to request further information on this course, please visit JBA’s website: www.jbaconsulting.co.uk or email: felicity.clarke@jbaconsulting.co.uk.