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Deltares - Enabling Delta Life
  Programme  

Thursday 4 June 2009 - Chairman: Ivo Pothof, Deltares

10.00

Registration

 

10.30

Welcome

 

10.35

Detection of gas bubbles in pipeline systems using pressure transients

Pothof

11.30

Break

 

12.00

Measurements and theory on unsteady friction

Bergant & Pothof

13.00

Lunch break

 

14.00

Transients in hydropower plants (modelling, field tests and design)

Liou

15.00

Column separation

Bergant

16.00

Break

 

16.30

Modelling low-pressure system involving free air and gaseous cavitation (with examples in safety vacuum release system and, separately, liquefied nature gas off-loading system)

Liou

17.30

End of day

 

Friday 5 June 2009 - Chairman: Anton Heinsbroek, Deltares

09.00

Dynamic behavior of pumps - Suter curve, pump as turbine

Heinsbroek

10.00

Design Approach - Risk management and transient protection; safe fail versus fail safe approaches; design tradeoffs and getting the balance right

Karney

11.00

Break

 

11.30

Dynamic characteristics and torque models of check valves

Heinsbroek

12.30

Lunch break

 

13.30

Focus on the future: learning from spectacular failures

Karney

14.30

Fluid Structure Interaction

Heinsbroek & Tijsseling

15.30

Break

 
16.00

Modelling practice – validation of a numerical model with measurements

Pothof
17.00

Review of two centuries of historical development of theory and experiment, from the implicit discovery of the Joukowsky formula by Thomas Young (1808) to its implementation in modern computer programs by Streeter and Wylie (1967)

Tijsseling
17.30 End of day