About the course
This course teaches you all the fundamentals of performing water hammer analysis using BOSfluids.
Background knowledge about water hammer phenomena and analyses methods are provided as well as tutorials in performing such analyses in the BOSfluids software. Results are discussed in detail to provide a solid understanding of their interpretation. Next to different water hammer scenarios and their analysis also many real-life cases are provided and associated mitigation measures are discussed.
After this course you are a confident user of BOSfluids that understands good design practices and analysis methods for water hammer phenomena in piping systems.
The course allows you to learn at your own pace and is fully provided online. You receive 1-year unlimited access to all modules, which allows you to perform them over again when you need to refresh knowledge for your work projects.
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Selected course format
Classroom
- Face-to-face with instructors
- On-site or in Rijswijk
- Printed course materials
- Lunch included
- BOSfluids license included
- For teams
Self-paced
- Self-learning modules
- Online discussion forum
- Live sessions with instructor
- 1-year access
- optional 1-month full BOSfluids license
- For individual learning
Virtual Training
- Self-learning modules
- Online discussion forum
- Live sessions with instructor
- 1-year access
- optional 1-month full BOSfluids license
- For teams (min 4)
Course Objective
“To enable BOSfluids users to be highly effective users and perform water hammer analysis independently.”
- Learn from home
- Video Lectures by Experts
- Available 24/7
- PDH Hours qualified course
Program & Details
Welcome to the course
Your instructors
Live session schedule
How to use this course & join the live sessions
Personal Certificate requirements
- Introduction and Agenda
- What are pressure surges and what causes them?
- Examples of incidents as a result of pressure surge
- Pressure surge analysis – Steady State
- Pressure surge analysis – Transient
- Reducing the impact of pressure surges
- Conclusions
A sample of the first module is available for free, so you can learn more about the teaching style and understand if the course fits your needs.
- Introduction and agenda
- General Workflow
- Model Viewer in BOSfluids
- Overview of the element types
- Overview of the node types
- The components database
- Model Viewer in BOSfluids
- Import/export models
- Exercises
- Interface & piping tab
- Viewer options
- Add valve
- The elements subtab
- Boundary conditions
- Analysis Setting
- Reviewing the results
- Managing scenarios
- Customized plots
- Components database
- Help windows & manual
- Pipe editing options
- Introduction and agenda
- Steady state flow calculation
- Boundary conditions
- Flow resistance
- Pumps in BOSfluids
- Quasi steady analysis
- Exercises
- Introduction and agenda
- Transient flow calculation
- Pressure wave propagation in piping systems
- Transient events – Valve Closure
- Transient events – Pump Trip
- What is cavitation?
- Cavitation models in BOSfluids
- Flood & Drain analysis
- Exercises
- Introduction and agenda
- Unbalanced loads in piping systems
- Setting up a structural analysis
- Reviewing structural results
- Control systems – part 1
- Control systems – part 2
- Tube rupture analysis
- Exercises
Results
- have a solid understanding of water hammer phenomena,
- can perform water hammer analysis of basic scenarios in BOSfluids,
- know how to interpret pressure surge results,
- understand the influence of cavitation in piping systems,
- are familiar with the BOSfluids solvers,
- know how to link your results to pipe stress analysis software,
- have seen numerous real-life cases of water hammer phenomena in industrial piping,
- know different mitigation measures and their applicability,
- are capable of assessing pressure surge reports to take actions for mitigation of their system at hand.
Intended for
- Users of BOSfluids that want a solid understanding of the software, analysis techniques and backgrounds,
- Those involved with performing pressure surge analysis,
- Engineers that need to be able to understand reporting of pressure surge analysis for their system at hand.
Prerequisites and level
- No prior knowledge of BOSfluids is required,
- A basic understanding of piping systems is beneficial.
- Level: Intermediate
Self-paced
This course is self-paced and is not subject to specific dates. The course contains 7 modules with a total of 7 hours of content which can be performed at your own pace. A Personal Certificate will be provided to you if you finish the course within the first month after purchase. This incentive will motivate you to perform the course quickly thereby improving your learning curve.
Spring Program:
Kick-Off Session Wednesday 10 May 10:00 CEST
Session A Wednesday 17 May 10:00 CEST
Session B Wednesday 24 May 10:00 CEST
Workshop Wednesday 31 May 10:00 CEST
Fall Program:
Kick-Off Session Wednesday 6 November 10:00 CEST
Session A Wednesday 13 November 10:00 CET
Session B Wednesday 20 November 10:00 CET
Workshop Wednesday 27 November 10:00 CET
You receive 1-year unlimited access to all modules. This allows you to perform modules again when you need to refresh knowledge for your work projects.
Access to the course.
After your purchase is confirmed you receive an account to the EngineeringTrainer online learning portal, where you find the course in your dashboard. After opening the course you will be guided step-by-step through the different modules. You receive 1-year unlimited access to the course. This allows you to perform modules again if this is beneficial for your work projects.
Learn by doing.
The course is mainly based on video content: video lectures and video software demonstrations. English subtitles is available and videos can be viewed as many times as desired. The video lectures help you to grasp the important technical concepts and in the video demonstrations the instructor uses the software and discusses all the steps and actions. You are recommended to follow the steps of the instructor in the software to optimize your learning curve.
Exercises & Software models associated with the content are available for download.
Participants of this course receive a personal digital certificate if they meet the following requirements:
completion of each module of the course,
filling in the Course Evaluation Survey.
Example certificate:
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Video lectures
Video demonstrations
Exercise .pdf-files for download
Exercise answers by means of demonstrations (video)
Related BOSfluids model files for download
The majority of training material are videos. These are not available for download, but can be accessed directly with your account on the portal. Apart from quizzes the exercise files can be downloaded. These can include .pdf files with the exercise questions, software models or other file types. You receive 1-year unlimited access to the course. This allows you to watch content again if this is beneficial for your work projects.
We encourage participants to submit feedback and questions in the Questions forum of the course. These are answered directly in the forum or form the basis for new videos that are added to the online course.
Participants receive 1-year unlimited access to the course including new videos that are added during this year. Participants receive an email notification upon addition of new course videos.
An active BOSfluids license is required for this course. A 1-month full BOSfluids license can be purchased as an add-on to the course once the course is added to your shopping cart. For more details see the course fee overview below.
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If your computer and internet connection is able to play videos online (YouTube) you will be able to follow the course. Note that almost all browsers are supported, except for Internet Explorer.
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Yes, this course qualifies for PDH hours as per the NCEES CPC Guidelines.
