EFDC
Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) is supported by US EPA. The
description and history of this code can be found in its EPA
website.
I use this code to do some research on the water quality management of the Chicago River, IL, and possibly other places.
The work I did with EFDC includes:
I use this code to do some research on the water quality management of the Chicago River, IL, and possibly other places.
The work I did with EFDC includes:
- Adapt the water quality model for the Chicago River, add detailed model for the deposition and resuspension of particulate matter.
- Develop some tools to make the use of the code more friendly and the calibration process faster. These tools include pre-processing and post-processing.
- Parallelization of the code using OpenMP
| Location
of the Chicago River |
Segmentation
of the Chicago River |
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Application examples:
- Densitty current induced by combined sever overflow (CSO) events
| CSO
Event of 01/08/2008 |
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| CSO Event of 02/17/2008 |
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The following figure shows the flow structure at the junction of the Bublby Creek and the South Branch at the beginning of a CSO event. Notice the intrusion of the dense CSO flow upstream and into the ship slips.
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The following is an animation shows the density current in the South Branch during a CSO event.
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