Chris Frias
Senior Water Resources Engineer and Part-Time Professor
- Role
- Water Resources Engineer at Barr Engineering Co.
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Frias
Dr. Frias experience in numerical modeling is international. He has developed hydrodynamic models for several rivers in the Peruvian Amazon Basin, the Madeira River in Brazil, the Red River in North Dakota, USA, and the Big Sioux River in South Dakota, USA among others. These models included detailed 3D Large Eddy Simulations (LES) to 2D Finite Element Simulations. He has a total of 14 years’ experience related to field and hydraulics engineering. Additionally, he has been involved in the development of river engineering software such as RVRMeander ( http://rvrmeander.org/) and MEANDRE (which will be available on a future version of TELEMAC2D).Among his skills are:Numerical modeler of incompressible environmental flows such as rivers, oceans, creeks and groundwater using software such as ANSYS FLUENT, ANSYS CFX, STAR-CCM+, OpenFOAM, FLOW-3D, RIVER2D, SWMM, FLO-2D, TUFLOW, EFDC, CONCEPTS, RVRMeander, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, MIKE21, MIKE11, DELFT3D, SWAN, SRH-2D, ADH, dualSphysics and TELEMAC2D.Experienced in High Performance Computing (HPC) applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).Strong knowledge of CAD and GIS software (Civil 3D, Infraworks, ArcGIS, etc)Strong knowledge of C++, Java, Fortran and Matlab in Linux and Windows platforms.Experienced on field data collection for river modelling such as ADCP, terrestrial LIDAR and single beam and multibeam echo sounder measurements.Experienced as a GPS surveys supervisor in open pit mining sites,Experienced as a web developer using HTML, php, mySQL.Experienced with databases in Oracle (SQL-DDL, SQL-DML and SQL/PL)
Experience
Water Resources Engineer
Oct 2014 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US
Conducted:Dam break model analysis.Inflow Design Flood (IDF) determination.Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models for incompressible flow and non-newtonian fluids.CFD for airflow and particle tracking applications.Storm water management models.River morphology base line study.Sediment Transport modeling.Hydraulic Transients in stormwater conducts.Cavitation and Vibration AnalysesWave modeling.
Education
National University of Engineering
BSc, Civil Engineering
1997 — 2003
National University of Engineering
Professional Engineer, Civil Engineering
2008 — 2009
University of Pittsburgh
Ph. D., Water Resources
2011 — 2013
University of Pittsburgh
MSCE, Civil Engineering
2009 — 2011
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