TUFLOW FV
TUFLOW FV (Finite Volume) is a hydrodynamic model engine that solves the Non-Linear Shallow Water Equations (NLSWE) on a "flexible" mesh of triangular and/or quadrilateral elements. The flexible mesh approach has significant benefits when applied to study areas involving complex coastlines and embayments, varying bathymetries and sharply varying flow and scalar concentration gradients by:
- Smoothly resolve bathymetric features of varying spatial scales;
- Smoothly and flexibly resolve boundaries such as coastlines;
- Adjust model resolution without resorting to a “nesting” approach.
The finite volume numerical scheme solves the conservative integral form of the NLSWE. The scheme is also capable of simulating the advection and dispersion of multiple scalar constituents within the model domain. Both first-order and second-order solution schemes are available for use. A 2D vertically-averaged scheme is operational and a 3D scheme is being developed and applied to major coastal investigations.
The TUFLOW FV engine leverages the parallel processing capabilities of modern computer workstations, using the OpenMP implementation of shared memory parallelism. 64-bit, multi-core computers are now routinely used to deliver large models and/or long simulations.
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