RiverFlow2D by Hydronia

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RiverFlow2D Description:
RiverFlow2D is a two-dimensional hydraulic model for rivers and estuaries that can also simulate sediment and pollutant transport and mudflows. It offers remarkably stable, accurate and fast finite-volume computations, accounting for subcritical and supercritical flows using refined flexible triangular-cell meshes. RiverFlow2D new state-of-the-art Finite-Volume engine provides a number of high performance capabilities including 2D flood routing over alternative wet and dry river bed conditions and parallelized computational engine (GPU-based) for faster simulations.

Main Model Features:

Numerical Engine

• Spatial discretization using triangular elements
• High performance Finite-Volume engine
• Double-precision computations for higher accuracy
• Fully parallelized for faster execution in Multiple-Core computers
• GPU version for 100X faster simulations
• Stable and robust handling of dry and wet bed
• Virtually perfect volume conservation
• Subcritical and supercritical flows
• English and metric units
• Unlimited number of inflow and outflow boundaries/li>
• English and Metric units

Hydraulic Components

• Culverts using FHWA formulation
• Bridges with pressure flow and overtopping
• Weirs and Gates
• Sources and sinks
• Rainfall and evaporation

Sediment Transport

• Bed-changes (erosion-deposition)
• Suspended and bed load transport
• Transport by size-fractions
• 10 sediment-transport formulas
• Sediment transport over rigid bed

Pollutant Transport

• Advection-Dispersion-Reaction
• Reaction Rates and Decay
• Multiple Pollutants

Mud and Debris Flow

• Seven rheological formulations
• Granular flow

Oil Spills on Land

• Oil pipelines leaks
• Oil Tank breaks
• Temperature dependent viscosity and density (Available 2015)

Boundary Conditions

• Discharge hydrograph
• Discharge and elevation vs. time
• Water elevation vs. time
• Uniform flow
• Free outflow

Coupling with other models such as PTM (Particle Tracking Model)

 

RiverFlow2D Strengths:

• Robust dry-wet bed algorithm. RiverFlow2D allows modeling using meshes with large dry areas that can be flooded over the progression of a hydrograph, maintaining very stable results without generating numerical surging.
• Extensively tested. RiverFlow2D has been tested using ASCE 3D Flow Model Verification and Validation Committee guidelines. The model has been used in river projects worldwide in a broad range of hydraulic conditions, where it has replicated observed historic data.
• Stability. RiverFlow2D stable computational engine generates reliable results under a wide set of river conditions and hydraulic regimes.
• Accuracy. RiverFlow2D achieves virtually nil volume conservation errors (order of 10-12%) even when modeling the most demanding wetting and drying areas over complex terrains.
• Fast. RiverFlow2D GPU version can be 100 times faster than the non-parallelized version when using NVIDIA GPU cards.
• Extensible. RiverFlow2D is continuously being upgraded with improved functionality and new components. Add on modules include: Sediment Transport, Pollutant Transport, Mud and Debris Flows and Oil Spills on Land.

Comprehensive Technical Support: When modeling with RiverFlow2D you can count on comprehensive technical support provided by expert hydraulic engineers with many years of practical modeling experience.