Session 1
The name of the division that the New Orleans District is a part of.
What is the Mississippi Valley Division?
The office in MVN responsible for coordinating with the project partners.
What is Project Management?
The foundation of empirical models - what they are all based on.
What are data, experiments?
The most important skill for project management.
What is communication?
The name of the law that we use the continuity equation to satisfy.
What is the law of conservation of matter?
Another type of model application outside of the field of engineering.
What are: ChatGPT, wildfire prediction, stock market prediction, public health modeling?
True or False: Empirical models typically have more uncertainty than theoretical models.
What is true?
The type of model that does a better type of job modeling the impacts of turbulence.
What are physical models?
The term for 3 dimensional modeling that uses the full Navier-Stokes equations, and is considered the most accurate and precise.
Examples of models that use both theoretical and empirical models in combination with each other.
What are global climate models, HEC-RAS?
One of the reasons why we would use an empirical model over theoretical.
What is we can't fully explain why one input leads to an output, or we want to generalize a theoretical model because it is less complicated and sufficiently accurate?
The three primary missions of USACE-MVN.
What are flood protection, navigation, and ecosystem restoration?
The type of force that we often ignore when modeling flooding across large areas, but must be considered when modeling hydraulic structures like pumps.
What is the pressure force?
The name of the empirical method used sometimes to estimate rainfall runoff.
The location of USACE headquarters.
Where is Washington DC?
The name of the issue caused by low pressure in pumps, which cause bubbles to form an collapse in a way that damages the pump.
What is cavitation?
The name of the company that was used as an example of a company that does CFD modeling.
What is Ansys?
A mathematical method for fitting a curve that is very important in the development of empirical models.
What is a regression?