Florence Railway Station

19 Nov Florence Railway Station

As part of the creation of a new high-speed rail network, the Italian Government has instituted a major programme of station restructuring, including the creation of many new stations. The design for Florence Station by Sir Norman Foster and Partners provides a new facility that will connect with thecitys existing Santa Maria Novella station via a new tramline.

Drainage Water Analysis

The roof collects a massive amount of drainage water. We were comissioned to perform a rain flow simulation. Several characteristic regions of the open water channels were discretized. The governing Navier-Stokes equations were solved under consideration of the open channel hydraulics.