Progress in Environmental Engineering:
Is There A Role For High-End Computing?
Date of meeting: November 21, 2005
Location: Tower Seminar Room, Daresbury Laboratory
Environmental engineering is a major subject that includes many aspects of biological,
chemical and physical phenomena. The design and development of many environmental
engineering applications is affected by EC directives and government policies (noise, emissions) and their
societal impact (acid rain, contamination, flooding). A key part of successful
engineering design is computer simulation and the ability to reliably predict:
- the flow of air in and around buildings including thermal and ventilation effects
- groundwater transport and sedimentation
- atmospheric dispersions
- coastal defences and flooding
- transport phenomena in rivers and estuaries
- renewable energy from wind and wave power
- fluid-structure interaction, flow induced vibration, and marine structures
and many other inter-related topics.
The modelling and simulation of many environmental engineering problems frequently
involves fluid dynamical studies. These processes are typically nonlinear and often
occur in geometrically complex configurations with disparate spatial and temporal scales:
turbulence and buoyancy are just two examples of such processes. It is therefore
surprising that the UK environmental engineering community makes little use of the
national high-end computing facilities, such as HPCx. This is in contrast to other
computational engineering research.
This meeting, which is jointly organised by Collaborative Computational Project 12
(CCP12) and HPCx,
is therefore aimed at raising awareness of the potential benefits of
using the UK’s high-end computing facilities and to stimulate discussion between leading
research groups involved in environmental engineering and related activities. The meeting
is intended for both expert and non-expert users of national computing facilities and
will also highlight current fluids engineering research on HPCx.
The figure illustrates streamlines around the Daresbury Tower
Scientific Programme
A draft programme is given below. You can also download the PDF version.
If possible, we will also arrange a tour of HPCx.
| Time |
Speaker |
| 10:10 - 10:20 |
David Emerson (Daresbury Laboratory)
Overview of CCP12 and HPCx engineering research |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Mike Ashworth (Daresbury Laboratory)
Introduction to HPCx
|
| 10:40 - 10:45 |
Emma Jones (EPSRC)
Update from EPSRC
|
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Mike Graham (Imperial College London)
Computational requirements for numerical simulations of full scale marine and wind energy problems
|
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
David Kershaw-Wright (BRE)
Practical use of CFD in wind engineering applications and in emergency response calculations
|
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Tony Hutton (QinetiQ)
Simulation of the urban wind environment - the scientific and computational challenges
|
| 12:15 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Deborah Greaves (University of Bath)
Viscous wave simulation using adapting quadtree grids
|
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Alistair Borthwick (University of Oxford)
Computational modelling of shallow environmental flows
|
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Mark Wilson (University of Leeds)
Animal welfare in livestock trailers and optimisation of ventilation
|
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Peter Stansby (University of Manchester)
Coastal waves and long term prediction
|
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Shunqi Pan (University of Liverpool)
Modelling of coastal hydrodynamics and morphdynamics
|
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Discussion and close |
Registration Details
To register for the meeting, please complete either the registration form (PDF),
registration form (Word) or email the details requested directly to Mrs. Miller
(S.Miller@dl.ac.uk). Registration will
take place at 09:45 in the Tower Seminar Room.
Getting to Daresbury
Daresbury Laboratory is conveniently located near two intercity railway stations at Warrington and Runcorn.
The laboratory is also close to Manchester Airport and the M6, M62 and M56. Further details can be found in
Getting to Daresbury Laboratory
Accommodation
If people attending the meeting would like to know more about local hotels, please contact Mrs. Shirley Miller
(S.Miller@dl.ac.uk). The laboratory also has on-site accommodation facilities.
Contact Details
For further information on this meeting please contact:
Professor David Emerson
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Daresbury Laboratory
Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus
Warrington WA4 4AD
Cheshire
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0)1925 603221
Fax. +44 (0)1925 603634
Email: david.emerson@stfc.ac.uk
Web Page: Computational Engineering Group's Home Page
