Sustaining Hydropower Energy For Economic Growth And Development In West Africa. Applications of CFD in Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM)

Abstract

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential tool for the design, development, and evaluation of systems and processes including innovative devices utilized for the control and treatment of Urban Water. CFD is now increasingly being used as a cost-effective rapid prototyping tool for the development, design and optimization of urban water management system components without recourse to several iterations of physical models and prototypes. The ability to accurately predict fluid flow fields in 3-dimensions (including pressure, streamlines and residence time distributions) coupled with the tracking and simulation of particulate and other pollutant behaviour and fate is resulting in insights that are facilitating improved understanding of device and system characteristics; leading to improvements and rapid innovations.