Traditionally, reduced physical models are used to allow control, instrumentation and experimental evaluation of flow. More recently, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has emerged as a tool that allows numerical modeling of flows and can complement the information provided by the physical model. The objective this paper is to validate the CFD tool in reproducing the flow through an ogee crest spillway with a roller bucket stilling basin. This validation was performed with the data from a reduced scale experiment in which measurements were made of the position of the water free surface and of the pressure loads in the spillway profile. It was verified that the CFD tool is suitable for the study of this type of flow, being able to reproduce the experimental results. In the execution of the numerical simulations, special attention was given to the influence of the mesh on the results. An important influence of the mesh was observed in some results, which shows the importance a sensitivity analysis of this parameter when performing CFD simulations. The obtained results offer the prospect of using CFD as a supporting tool for the design of spillways and stilling basins.
A busca pelo entendimento do comportamento dos fluidos é realizada geralmente por meio de métodos experimentais. Por exemplo, são clássicas as soluções utilizando-se modelos físicos reduzidos na otimização de projetos de grandes estruturas hidráulicas, como as barragens. A utilização de métodos experimentais é onerosa e demanda um tempo relativamente alto. Este fato, associado ao desenvolvimento tecnológico de computadores digitais de alta capacidade de processamento, fez surgir alternativamente às soluções clássicas, modelos computacionais que resolvem as equações que descrevem o comportamento dos fluidos com condições de contorno gerais e geometrias complexas. Neste sentido, este trabalho tratará de uma avaliação comparativa dos resultados obtidos em uma simulação do escoamento por um extravasor de uma barragem utilizando o programa FLOW-3D ® , com os obtidos em um modelo físico reduzido presente na Fundação
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