Abstract
Dubai’s new channel further enhances the urban-scape of the city offering new waterfront developments, transportation venues and diversified panoramas to the city. This paper performs a study to simulate the flow field in the proposed Dubai artificial channel using a 2D hydrodynamic model. The model predicts the flow depth and velocity in the channel, lagoons and bends. The model predictions show that the velocity is higher in the channel sections compared to the lagoons and bends sections. On the other hand, the water depth is lower in the channel sections compared to the lagoons and bends sections. Nonetheless, the velocities in the channel are within the accepted range that prevents boundary erosion and sediment deposition.
Highlights
Like several modern Arabian Gulf cities, Dubai is interested in creating landmarks to attract investors through display of its ability to create architectural spectacles that can be part of the World Genius Record
Prior studies using Finite Element Surface Water Modeling System (FESWMS) [10, 11] recommended a mesh Peclet number between 10 and 40 to ensure that: 1) momentum is dominated by advection; 2) eddy viscosity maintains flow consistency and prevents oscillation; and 3) proper amount of energy loss due to dispersion takes place in each element to account for microeddies, which are too small to be resolved in the mesh
The model predictions show that the water depth is lower in the channel sections compared to the lagoons and bends sections
Summary
Like several modern Arabian Gulf cities, Dubai is interested in creating landmarks to attract investors through display of its ability to create architectural spectacles that can be part of the World Genius Record. Among these landmarks are the artificial islands of Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Jumeirah that shape Dubai new shoreline (Figure 1). Dubai’s new waterfront developments in the form of artificial Islands, lagoons and water channels are all part of branding Dubai as part of the emerging network of modern global cities such as Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Dubai’s high-end shorefront developments reveal the essence of the presence of water not merely as a landscape feature but ideologically connecting Dubai’s past as a pearl fishermen port city to a modern urban enclave of spectacle and richness
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