Steel-Fab, Inc. (Steel-Fab) required hydraulic engineering support to complete a three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) hydraulic modeling analysis of a proposed jet gate that was being designed for the City of Columbia, Ohio’s Hoover Dam.

Steel-Fab, Inc. (Steel-Fab) required hydraulic engineering support to complete a three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) hydraulic modeling analysis of a proposed jet gate that was being designed for the City of Columbia, Ohio’s Hoover Dam.

A group of government employees from the Idaho Fish and Game Commission and local engineering consultants in Boise, Idaho requested two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic modeling training using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) software.

A group of government employees from the Idaho Fish and Game Commission and local engineering consultants in Boise, Idaho requested two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic modeling training using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) software.

The client’s original Bascule gate was damaged and became wedged against the abutment plates preventing operation of the gate.

The client’s original Bascule gate was damaged and became wedged against the abutment plates preventing operation of the gate.

The original emergency spillway was comprised of a concrete gate structure with stanchion gates and a downstream channel that consisted of an earthen channel covered with vegetation.

The original emergency spillway was comprised of a concrete gate structure with stanchion gates and a downstream channel that consisted of an earthen channel covered with vegetation.