Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Free surface hydraulics

The finite volume-based, SW2D computational code (see Software section) is used by Cereg Ingénierie and Enveo (Montpellier Lavérune location) on a regular basis to carry out flood risk assessment studies. The code is constantly being developed on a work-for-hire basis depending on the company needs. The developments mostly concern pre- and post-processing functionalities, as well as specific hydraulic modules.

Hydrodynamics of coastal lagoons with porosity models

A two-dimensional shallow water with depth-variable porosity has been developed. The depth-variable porosity allows the subgrid-scale variations of the topography and hydraulic connectivity to be accounted for. The governing equations are written in conservation form and solved using a finite volume scheme. This allows the CPU time of the computational code to be divided by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude. The model is currently being tested against in situ measurements in the Vaccarès system in collaboration with Tour du Valat.