Mesh Generation Interface

Generation of TUFLOW FV mesh files is a critical aspect of the modelling process and as such requires the application of an appropriate graphical user interface.

Several such interfaces are compatible with the requirements of TUFLOW FV. The SMS package supplied by Aquaveo (www.aquaveo.com/sms) is routinely used by BMT product and is, in our view, the best pre and post processing tool available for flexible mesh modelling.

Specific to the needs to TUFLOW FV, SMS provides:

• Mesh Module: The Mesh Module is used to manipulate 2D unstructured grids (or mesh), which define the computational domain of the numerical model. This is a very effective tool for creating good quality, computationally efficient meshes and for constructing boundary and initial conditions and other geometry based model inputs.
• Generic model input editor: TUFLOW FV input files can be assembled within the SMS interface (coming soon).
• Post processing: TUFLOW FV results can be generated in SMS formats which are then readily loaded and viewed within SMS. This includes options for creating animations and GIS based presentations.