Vortex Chamber Design Check

Flow-3D is used to simulate the behavior of multiple possible drop structure designs,
minimizing the need for rework on the one physical model budgeted to be built and
evaluated.
Drop structures are to deliver the sewerage flow from the standard city sewerage system
to the deep storage tunnel while avoiding both efficiency losses (slow down or back up)
and long term structural damage that can occur if the size and shape of each section
isnt carefully matched to the volume and velocity of the incoming flow.
Flow-3D to model 3D, transient, turbulent flow conditions, its uniquely accurate free
surface tracking algorithms and its ability to model different design geometries without
changing the computational mesh for each design.
Physical model can take 6 months or more.
Two standard concepts: a baffle-plunge (cascading) style and a tangential vortex
version, both designed to slow down and control the often 35 mph storm waters. Hand
calculation plus initial CGD analyses with Flow-3D determine general structure
diameter and component sizes.