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Evaluating the design of a stormwater quality improvement device with CFDJehangir Madhani PhD 2003 - 2010 
Faculty Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering Supervisor/s Dr Richard Brown, Dr Neil Kelson Thesis Abstract Stormwater is surface water runoff from urban areas discharging into receiving waterways. Litter and pollutants collected along the path of urban runoff can have a devastating effect on the environment. In order to improve the quality of runoff discharging into urban waterways, stormwater quality improvement devices (SQID) were developed to efficiently trap urban waste of varying sizes such as sludge, silt, sediments and solids.
Gross pollutant traps (GPTs) are a class of SQIDs that separate litter or debris (dimensionally greater than 5 mm) from stormwater, and these are usually installed downstream of the stormwater intake or the network line to prevent gross pollutants such as litter entering into receiving waterways. Proprietary developed SQIDs often lack rigorous design assessment. In this research, design assessment of a GPT is undertaken via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation and experiments on a LitterBank 50% scale model. The purpose of this research is to develop a design tool based on CFD by validating the numerical results with experiments. Publications
Madhani, Jehangir T. and Brown, Richard J. and Kelson, Neil A. (2006) Use of 2D modelling to identify key design parameters for stormwater quality improvement devices. In: The 13th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference, 2-5 July 2006, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland.
Madhani, Jehangir T. and Pendrey, David C. and Situ, Rong and Brown, Richard J. (2007) Assessment of a Scalar Concentration (Komori) Probe for Measuring Fluctuating Dye Concentration in Water. In: 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC), 3-7 December, 2007, Crown Plaza, Gold Coast, Australia. Madhani, Jehangir T. and Kelson, Neil A. and Brown, Richard J. (2006) Modelling 2D flow in a blocked SQID with CFD and experiments. In: Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering : Infrastructure Theme Conference 2006, 26 September 2006, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland. Madhani, Jehangir T. and Kwek, Leonard M. K. and Brown, Richard J. and Kelson, Neil A. and Frost, Ray L. (2005) Investigating the flow field of a Stormwater Quality Improvement Device. In: Environmental Engineering & Sustainability (EES), 18 - 19 July 2005, Power House, Sydney. Fonarev, A.S. and Madhani, Jehangir T. and Naida, M.A. (2001) An Effective method of calculating transonic flows and wave drag of axisymmetric and 3-D elongate bodies within framework of transonic equivalence rule. In: 14th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 10 -14th December 2001, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia. Siegenthaler, Alfred and Madhani, Jehangir T (2001) Outline of a Theory of non-Rankine-Hugoniot Shock Wave in Weak Mach Reflection. In: 14th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 10-14 December 2001, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia. Siegenthaler, Alfred and Madhani, Jehangir T. (1998) Experimental Verification of Departure from-Rankine- Hugoniot Behaviour in Weak Mach Reflection. In: 13th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 13-18 December 1998, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Madhani, Jehangir T. and Young, Joe and Kelson, Neil A. and Brown, Richard J. (2009) A novel method to capture and analyze flow in a gross pollutant trap using image-based vector visualization. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution : Focus. Madhani, Jehangir T. and Dawes, Les A. and Brown, Richard J. (2009) A perspective on littering attitudes in Australia. The Environmental Engineer. Madhani, Jehangir T. and Kelson, Neil A. and Brown, Richard J. (2009) An experimental and theoretical investigation of flow in a gross pollutant trap. Water Science and Technology, 59(6). pp. 1117-1127. Madhani, Jehangir T. and Brown, Richard J. (2008) A Scalar Concentration (Komori) Probe for Measuring Fluctuating Dye Concentration in Water. WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics (special issue on "Energy and Environmental Fluid Mechanics), 3(3). pp. 224-233. |
