CE ris Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for

CE ris Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability PHD THESIS | PHD STUDENT | Ana Isabel da Rocha e Sá Lopes Quaresma Developing pool-type fishways based on physical and numerical modelling of flows Motivation and Objectives | • R&D – River Restoration and Management Ph. D thesis • Development of innovative design solutions of pool-type fishways. • Setting guidelines for design and construction of efficient fishways. Research Significance | • Fish migration. • Rivers longitudinal connectivity improvement or reestablishment. Methodology | • Physical modelling and velocity measurement using PIV and ADV. • Numerical modelling of the tested configurations using the 3 D CFD commercial model Flow 3 D. • Development of pool-type fishways innovative design solutions using Flow 3 D. • Testing with fish one or more of the developed fishway design solutions to check the quality of the carried procedure. Discussion of Results and/or Main Conclusions | • CFD can be an efficient tool to develop new pooltype fishways designs to be tested with fish to verify efficiency. • Calibration of CFD based on the physical model seems adequate. Outputs | • Innovative design solutions of pool-type fishways • Guidelines for design and construction of efficient fishways • 2 conference papers already presented • 2 conference papers to be submitted • 4 papers to be submitted to international journals Supervisors | António Pinheiro and Teresa Ferreira Starting Date | OCT 2012