Stream 7C: Reclamations

Moderator: Siong Hong Ting, Royal HaskoningDHV, UK

Question – Siong Hong Ting: If the bottom half of the mounds are built with geo-containers, are your CFD models able to accurately predict the pressure or do you need to do physical models and then calibrate or verify it?

Answer - Aggelos Dimakopoulos: You could sample the pressure everywhere. And some results showed that the vertical profile of the pressure inside the core wasn’t changing significantly over these particular simulations that we did, but essentially, we sampled the pressures in the core layer from bottom to top for the purposes of that project.