The Effect of Modifying a CFD-AB Approach on Fish Passage through a Model Hydraulic Dam

What is it about?

Agent-based fish (AB-fish) are always located on a node of the CFD mesh and move by selecting the neighboring node that minimizes fatigue. A possible limitation of this approach is that the AB-fish movement exhibits a dependence upon the CFD mesh. The proposed modified approach allows the AB-fish to occupy any point in the computational domain and to continually (within the size of the time step) to update their minimum fatigue path.

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