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TransAT Tutorial Manual 4.5. Spillway

• Set Project Name to a more explicit name such as spillway then click

After clicking , the Mesh & BCs tab will be opened.

The Geo, Mesh & BCs, Input and Execute tabs at the top of the TransATUI window can
now be selected to open the modules to set up a simulation with TransAT.

4.5.6 Geo
In this tab simple geometries can be created and imported to the mesh. Additionally, geometries
created externally by other software can be imported in STL format. In this tutorial the geometry
has been created externally therefore it has to be loaded into the mesh.

• Click Geo at the top of the TransATUI.

Objects
Load the geometry file already prepared and located in the TransAT Object Database.

• Select the Database tab.
• Expand the Hydraulics folder

• Select Spillway 4.gts

• then click to load the file to the mesh

• In the Choose Units window that popped up, select m in the drop-down box

• Activate the check-box Resize Mesh around Geometry to resize the domain

• Click to create the Spillway and send it to the mesh

The Spillway needs to be positioned at suitable coordinates.

• Switch to the Objects tab

• Select the Spillway 4 object that appeared in the list of objects. Make sure the Spillway is
coloured in orange in the Graphical window

• Under the Object Motion, find Object Transformation

• Change to Position and click the .

• Set the following parameters:

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