Hydraulic Structures Design and Modeling Course

Learn hydraulic-structure design for spillways, gates, culverts, transitions, energy dissipation, scour and verified flow modelling.

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Training Locations

This Hydraulic Structures Design and Modeling Course is available in multiple cities. Please select your preferred location from the list below

Durrës

Albania

Tirana

Albania

Andorra la Vella

Andorra

Escaldes-Engordany

Andorra

Innsbruck

Austria

Salzburg

Austria

Vienna

Austria

Gomel

Belarus

Minsk

Belarus

Antwerp

Belgium

Brussels

Belgium

Banja Luka

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Plovdiv

Bulgaria

Sofia

Bulgaria

Dubrovnik

Croatia

Split

Croatia

Zagreb

Croatia

Limassol

Cyprus

Nicosia

Cyprus

Brno

Czech Republic

Prague

Czech Republic

Aarhus

Denmark

Copenhagen

Denmark

Tallinn

Estonia

Tartu

Estonia

Helsinki

Finland

Tampere

Finland

Lyon

France

Marseille

France

Nice

France

Paris

France

Berlin

Germany

Frankfurt

Germany

Hamburg

Germany

Munich

Germany

Athens

Greece

Thessaloniki

Greece

Budapest

Hungary

Debrecen

Hungary

Akureyri

Iceland

Reykjavík

Iceland

Cork

Ireland

Dublin

Ireland

Florence

Italy

Milan

Italy

Naples

Italy

Rome

Italy

Pristina

Kosovo

Prizren

Kosovo

Liepāja

Latvia

Riga

Latvia

Schaan

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Liechtenstein

Kaunas

Lithuania

Vilnius

Lithuania

Esch-sur-Alzette

Luxembourg

Luxembourg City

Luxembourg

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

St. Julian's

Malta

Valletta

Malta

Bălți

Moldova

Chișinău

Moldova

La Condamine

Monaco

Monte Carlo

Monaco

Budva

Montenegro

Podgorica

Montenegro

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Rotterdam

Netherlands

The Hague

Netherlands

Ohrid

North Macedonia

Skopje

North Macedonia

Bergen

Norway

Oslo

Norway

Gdańsk

Poland

Kraków

Poland

Warsaw

Poland

Faro

Portugal

Lisbon

Portugal

Porto

Portugal

Bucharest

Romania

Cluj-Napoca

Romania

City of San Marino

San Marino

Serravalle

San Marino

Belgrade

Serbia

Novi Sad

Serbia

Singapore

Bratislava

Slovakia

Košice

Slovakia

Bled

Slovenia

Ljubljana

Slovenia

Barcelona

Spain

Madrid

Spain

Valencia

Spain

Gothenburg

Sweden

Stockholm

Sweden

Bern

Switzerland

Geneva

Switzerland

Zurich

Switzerland

Istanbul

Turkey

Kyiv

Ukraine

Lviv

Ukraine

Odesa

Ukraine

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Birmingham

United Kingdom

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

London

United Kingdom

Manchester

United Kingdom

Rome (Vatican-adjacent)

Vatican City

Training Outlines

Introduction

Hydraulic structures must control and convey water safely across a wide range of operating conditions. Their performance depends on flow regime, transitions, energy dissipation, sediment interaction and the correct interpretation of analytical, physical and numerical models.

This five-day course equips hydraulic, water and civil engineers to design and assess spillways, gates, culverts, channels and energy-dissipation systems. Participants will apply open-channel principles, evaluate scour and cavitation risks, and develop modelling strategies with appropriate calibration and verification. Technical workshops culminate in an integrated hydraulic-structure design.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyse open-channel flow regimes.
Design hydraulic control structures.
Evaluate conveyance and transition losses.
Design energy-dissipation systems.
Assess cavitation and scour risk.
Select physical or numerical models.
Calibrate and verify hydraulic results.
Develop an integrated structure design.

Course Content

Day 1: Applied Open-Channel Hydraulics

Energy and momentum principles
Critical, subcritical and supercritical flow
Uniform and gradually varied flow
Hydraulic jumps
Boundary resistance and roughness
Flow-regime analysis laboratory

Day 2: Flow-Control Structures

Weirs and overflow controls
Gates and orifices
Spillway profiles and capacity
Outlet works and intakes
Operating ranges and submergence
Control-structure design workshop

Day 3: Conveyance and Transitions

Channels and lined waterways
Culvert hydraulics
Contractions and expansions
Bends, junctions and transitions
Air entrainment and ventilation
Conveyance-system exercise

Day 4: Energy Dissipation and Protection

Stilling basins and energy dissipators
High-velocity flow effects
Cavitation and aeration
Local and contraction scour
Erosion protection and foundation interaction
Scour-protection workshop

Day 5: Hydraulic Modelling and Verification

Physical-model similarity and scale
One- and two-dimensional modelling
Computational fluid-dynamics concepts
Boundary conditions and mesh sensitivity
Calibration, validation and uncertainty
Capstone hydraulic-structure model

Training Schedule

Below is the table of cities along with the respective dates for the upcoming training sessions of Hydraulic Structures Design and Modeling Course. Please review the schedule to find the most convenient option for you. You can also use the below search bar to type the city name and filter the results.