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Flexible modeling approaches

Aquaveo pioneered the conceptual model approach. Build a conceptual model in SMS by constructing a high level representation of the model using familiar GIS objects: points, arcs and polygons. Work with large, complex models in a simple and efficient manner by using the conceptual modeling approach and easily update or change the model as needed.

3D visualization optimized for performance

SMS is the most advanced software system available for performing surface-water simulations in a three-dimensional environment.

  • Interact with models in true 3D
  • Optimized OpenGL graphics for improved hardware rendering
  • Create photo-realistic renderings
  • Generate animations for PowerPoint or web presentations
  • Drape images over the model and control the opacity
  • Annotations – Add north arrows, scale bars, reference images, company logos, and more

Import a variety of data formats & imagery

Models require data from many different sources. That’s why SMS is built to easily import numerous file types:

  • Raster images including georeference and projection support
  • Topographical maps & elevation data
  • Elevation & bathymetry data
  • Web data services such as TerraServer
  • ArcGIS geodatabases and shapefiles
  • CAD files including .dwg, .dgn, and .dxf formats
  • Worldwide projection support including Cartesian and Geographic Systems
  • File Import wizard for delimited text files and spreadsheets

Advanced riverine & coastal modeling

SMS interfaces with a wide range of numerical models for applications including:

  • Riverine analysis
  • Contaminant transport
  • Sediment transport
  • Particle tracking
  • Rural & urban flooding
  • Estuarine
  • Coastal circulation
  • Inlet & wave modeling

Models

Riverine & Flood Modeling with SMS

ADH

2D Flow & Sediment Transport Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 2D Finite Element
Developer: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
ADH is a state-of-the-art ADaptive Hydraulics Modeling system. ADH uses adaptive numerical meshes that can be employed to improve model accuracy without sacrificing efficiency.

SRH Model

2D Flow Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 2D Finite Volume
Developer: Bureau of Reclamation
SRH-2D is a FEMA Approved Model
SRH-2D is a hydraulic model developed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that incorporates very robust and stable numerical schemes with a seamless wetting-drying algorithm.

TUFLOW

The World's Most Powerful 1D/2D Hydrodynamic Engine for Flood Modeling
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 1D/2D Finite Difference
Developer: BMT WBM
TUFLOW is a 1D/2D flood and tidal model that has a wide range of applications with similar capabilities to other, more expensive flood models.

TUFLOW AD Module

Constituent Fate & Transport Modeling for TUFLOW
Application: Riverine & Coastal Modeling
Method: 1D/2D Finite Difference
Developer: BMT WBM
TUFLOW AD (Advection Dispersion) is a module for simulating depth-averaged, two and one-dimensional constituent fate and transport. Both dissolved and particulate constituents can be simulated.

TUFLOW GPU Module

2D Hydrodynamic TUFLOW Modeling - With the Computational Performance of GPUs
Application: Riverine & Coastal Modeling
Method: 2D Finite Volume
Developer: BMT WBM
TUFLOW GPU is a 2D fixed grid hydrodynamic numerical model that uses the computational performance of GPUs to deliver a 10 to 100 times speed increase.

TUFLOW Multiple Domains Module

Multiple Domain Modeling for TUFLOW
Application: Riverine & Coastal Modeling
Method: 1D/2D Finite Difference
Developer: BMT WBM
Multiple Domains allows any number of 2D domains of different cell size and orientation to be built into a model. The 2D domains can be linked by 1D domains, or via the 2D/2D linking feature. Each domain can be of different cell size, orientation and extent.

TUFLOW FV

Flood & Tide Simulation Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine & Coastal Modeling
Method: 2D Finite Volume
Developer: BMT WBM
TUFLOW FV is a flexible mesh finite volume numerical model that simulates hydrodynamic, sediment transport and water quality processes in oceans, coastal waters, estuaries and rivers.

HydroAS

Hydrodynamic Flow & Transport Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 2D Finite Volume
Developer: Hydrotec
HydroAS is market leader in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It is based on the numerical solution of the shallow water equations using the Finite-Volume-Method.

RiverFlow2D by Hydronia

The Next Level in 2D Hydraulic Modeling
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 1D/2D Finite Volume
Developer: Hydronia
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.

RMA2

2D Flow Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 1D/2D Finite Element
Developer: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
RMA2 is a hydrodynamic modeling code that supports subcritical flow analysis, including wetting and drying and marsh porosity models. It is part of the TABS analysis package written by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (USACE-WES).

RMA4

Water Quality Transport Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 1D/2D Finite Element
Developer: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
RMA4 is part of the TABS-MD suite of programs and is used for tracking constituent flow in 2D models. RMA4 can be applied to represent the transport of a contaminant or salinity intrusion in a system. RMA4 can only be run after having initially run a hydrodynamic solution.

FESWMS

Flow & Sediment Transport Modeling with SMS
Application: Riverine Modeling
Method: 2D Finite Element
Developer: Federal Highway Administration
FESWMS is a hydrodynamic modeling code that supports both super and subcritical flow analyses, including area wetting and drying. It has been developed under funding by the U.S. Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) by Dr. Dave Froelich PE. FESWMS is specifically suited for modeling regions involving flow control structures, such as are encountered at the intersection of roadways and waterways.

PTM

Langarian Particle Tracking with SMS
Application: Riverine & Coastal Modeling
Method: n/a
Developer: Coldwater Consulting Ltd.
The Particle Tracking Model (PTM) is a Lagrangian particle tracker designed to allow the user to simulate particle transport processes. PTM is funded through two US Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) research programs, the Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) and the Dredging Operations and Environmental Research (DOER) Program.

Generic Model Interface

SMS has a generic interface whereby any two-dimensional finite element or finite difference model can be run using SMS as a pre- and post-processor.

Dynamic Model Interface

The dynamic model interface is a more flexible and powerful alternative to the generic model interface that has been supported by SMS for several years. This methodology allows a model developer to define all the attributes of an interface for a specific model in an XML file. SMS will read this file when launched, and then interact with the model. This schema is defined in the Dynamic Model Interface Schema.

Models

Coastal, Inlet & Wave Modeling with SMS

Models Category Type Method Description
ADCIRC Coastal Modeling 2D Finite Element ADCIRC is a 2D, depth-integrated, baratropic time-dependent long-wave, hydrodynamic circulation model used for modeling tides and wind driven circulation, analysis of hurricane storm surge and flooding, dredging feasibility and material disposal studies, larval transport studies, and near shore marine operations.
CGWAVE Coastal Modeling 2D Finite Element CGWAVE is a 2D wave transformation model that can be used to predict wave properties such as wave heights, velocities, pressures, and radiation stresses. The model can be used to simultaneously simulate the effects of refraction, diffraction, reflections by bathymetry and structures, dissipation due to friction and breaking, and nonlinear amplitude dispersion.
CMS Flow Coastal Modeling 2D Finite Element CMS Flow includes the capabilities to compute both hydrodynamics (water levels and current flow values under any combination of tide, wind, surge, waves and river flow) sediment transport as bedload, suspended load, and total load, and morphology change.
CMS Wave Coastal Modeling 2D Finite difference CMS Wave is a 2D wave spectral transformation model that employs a forward-marching, finite-difference method to solve the wave action conservation equation.
BOUSS-2D Coastal Modeling 2D Finite difference BOUSS-2D is a numerical model for simulating the propagation and transformation of waves in coastal regions and harbors based on a time-domain solution of Boussinesq-type equations.
STWAVE Coastal Modeling 2D Finite difference STWAVE is a steady-state spectral model based on the wave action balance equation. STWAVE simulates depth-induced wave refraction and shoaling, current-induced refraction and shoaling, depth- and steepness-induced wave breaking, diffraction, and wave growth.
GENCADE Coastal Modeling 1D N/A GENCADE simulates shoreline change relative to regional morphologic constraints upon which these processes take place. The model supports responses to imposed wave conditions, coastal structures, and other engineering activity (e.g., beach nourishment).
WAM Coastal Modeling 2D N/A WAM is a global ocean wave prediction model that predicts directional spectra as well as wave properties such as significant height, mean wave direction and frequency, mean wave direction and frequency, swell wave height and mean direction etc.
TUFLOW Riverine and Coastal Modeling 1D/2D Finite difference TUFLOW is a 1D and 2D numerical model used to simulate flow and tidal wave propagation. TUFLOW is designed to simulate flooding of rivers and creeks with complex flow patterns, overland and piped flows through urban areas as well as estuarine and coastal tide hydraulics and inundation from storm tides and tsunamis.
TUFLOW AD TUFLOW AD (Advection Dispersion) is a TUFLOW module for simulating depth-averaged, two and one-dimensional constituent fate and transport for both dissolved and particulate constituents.
TUFLOW GPU TUFLOW GPU is a TUFLOW module that uses the computational performance of GPUs to deliver a 10 to 100 times speed increase.
TUFLOW Multiple Domains TUFLOW Multiple Domains is a TUFLOW module that allows any number of 2D domains of different cell size and orientation to be built into a model. The 2D domains can be linked by 1D domains, or via the 2D/2D linking feature. Each domain can be of different cell size, orientation and extent.
TUFLOW FV Riverine and Coastal Modeling 2D Finite Volume TUFLOW FV is used to simulate hydrodynamic, sediment transport and water quality processes in oceans, coastal waters, estuaries, and rivers.
PTM Riverine and Coastal Modeling N/A N/A The Partical Tracking Model (PTM) is a Lagrangian particle tracker designed to allow the user to simulate particle transport processes and is used in coastal projects including dredged material dispersion and fate, sediment pathway and fate, and consitituent tranport.
Generic Model Interface Riverine and Coastal Modeling N/A N/A SMS has a generic interface whereby any two-dimensional finite element or finite difference model can be run using SMS as a pre- and post-processor.
Dynamic Model Interface Riverine and Coastal Modeling N/A N/A The dynamic model interface is a more flexible and powerful alternative to the generic model interface that has been supported by SMS for several years. This methodology allows a model developer to define all the attributes of an interface for a specific model in an XML file. SMS will read this file when launched, and then interact with the model.

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