Whitewater

In our third Insight episode, Kurt Smithgall, formally of S20 Design, takes us into the fast-flowing world of whitewater-park design or, to borrow a phrase from Kurt - “recreational hydraulics” - stuff like this.

Kurt gives us an insight into how CFD is helping in the design of whitewater parks & some of the challenges therein - including:

• mitigating the risk of building a water park that doesn’t work
• dealing with uncertainty in geometry & flow conditions
• scale - both in terms of the mesh/physics, but also the length of the transient simulations
• the importance of domain expertise & whether you need to be a paddler to do this job
• the future - mixing CFD post-pro & virtual reality to “paddle” features before they’ve even been built

Shownotes

• Connect with Kurt on LinkedIn & mention the podcast 😉
• Find out more about S20 Design including some past projects & cool pictures of recreational hydraulics.
• Check out these two video to get a better idea of what we discuss:
  • Boise River Park
  • Overview of S20 Design