Short description
A modular spiral fishway is designed to provide fish ascent and descent in a confined space as a compact fish exchange facility. While maintaining the state of the art, the spiral fishway is scalable to all fish species, sizes and needs, as well as to countless site specifics – from the smallest unavoidable step in a stream to high impoundments. A continuous bottom substrate layer will also provide bottom-oriented fish species and macrozoobenthos with a seamless continuous migration corridor.
Within the R&D cooperation project, the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering is designing a three-dimensional flow simulation model for the evaluation, construction and design of different designs. The technical-(etho-)hydraulic function of the system is tested on a real-scale model and the passability of the spiral fishway is optimized by means of preliminary tests in the laboratory and in the prototype solution.
An overview of the work packages in German can be seen in the figure below.
