openTELEMAC: advanced couplings and modules
Develop your skills further with openTELEMAC’s advanced modules: waves and coastal structures (TOMAWAC, ARTEMIS), morphodynamics (GAIA), water quality (WAQTEL), heat exchange and ice formation (KHIONE).

Course summary
Do you recognize yourself?
- You run environmental hydraulics calculations that don't converge or give inconsistent results: torrential liquid boundaries, poorly configured solvers, obscure error messages... and you spend hours trying to figure out what's wrong.
- You want to switch to an open-source finite element and volume solver to gain technological expertise and reduce your licensing costs, but you don't know where to start or how to structure your first calculations.
- You have trouble interpreting .slf files and solver messages: do the results accurately describe reality? Are there phenomena that are poorly evaluated or simply ignored (tides, salinity, temperature, turbulence, etc.)? Are the results physically consistent?
- You want to go beyond the tutorials and fully master openTELEMAC to adapt it to your industrial cases: automate your calculations, chain several simulations, conduct parametric studies, or integrate the solver into a larger simulation chain.
Why our training in particular?
Theory revisited, immediate practice
Two days of practice backed by a review of the theoretical fundamentals of Saint-Venant equations. Each session is more demanding than the previous one: you progress in concrete steps, from discovery to more comprehensive and better implemented physical models.
From geometry to post-processing: the complete workflow
You will learn how to operate and master the tools (QGIS & Q4TS, Paraview, openTELEMAC) together, just as you would in your daily work. Not just the solver: the entire simulation chain and the use of geographic databases.
Practical trainers, right in front of you
Our engineers and PhDs use openTELEMAC daily on industrial projects at Simvia. In person, they share best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and troubleshooting tips that you won't find in any documentation.
Close supervision
One trainer for a maximum of 8 trainees during practical work. When you get stuck, an expert is right there with you.
A network, not just training
The inter-company format brings together engineers from different sectors and backgrounds around the same CFD issues. You exchange feedback, compare approaches, and leave with a network of peers who share your technical daily life.
Audience
- Corporate: engineers and technicians with a basic understanding of the physical and digital aspects covered by the course.
- Academic: researchers, PhD students and students at higher education and research institutions.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the hydrodynamic modules of the Telemac system. Knowledge in the field of physics to be developed further (hydro-sedimentary dynamics, water quality, etc.).
Practical details
- Hours: 9:00 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 17:00.
- On site: EDF Lab Paris-Saclay (Palaiseau), lunches and coffee breaks included. Remote: two days one week apart, to practise in between.
- Language: spoken French with English material (remote sessions in English).
- Each trainer supervises at most 8 trainees during hands-on work.
- Help installing the latest version of the code and certificate of completion.
Dates, place, language, prices and registration are given on each session page.
Accessibility
We are committed to making our training accessible to people with disabilities. Every situation is unique, so please contact us before registering so that we can study together the educational, technical or organisational adaptations that can be put in place.