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.”

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 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-smithgall-a4802b66/

• Find out more about S20 Design - https://s2odesign.com/

Check out these two video to get a better idea of what we discuss:

• Boise River Park - https://bit.ly/boise-whitewater

• Overview of S20 Design - https://youtu.be/p6kzWenthMw