![]() ![]() This has increased tremendously the number of Delft3D users around the world, in particular users in Universities that have started to use this piece of software in earnest for coastal and marine research. A couple of years ago they made their regional (scales of 10s of meters to 10s of kilometers) hydrodynamics and morphodynamics models, known as Delft3D-flow and Delft3D-mor, open source. Deltares is a not-for-profit research and consultancy organisation. The course I attended in Deltared (Delft, The Netherlands, 19-20 November 2012) is the most basic course on Delft3D, provided by the Deltares Academy. I made some good contacts interested, for instance, in applications of Delft3D to tsunami modelling, sediment plumes, and environmental impacts of renewable energy devices. The abilities of the participants ranged from beginners, to more advanced users who wanted to understand better the capabilities of the software. The course then moved on to a couple of more complex models, including the assessment of the accuracy of seabed data provided by the client, and a model of a thermal plume along the Vietnamese coast. This course introduced the pre-processing and post-processing software used by Delft3D modellers, and then continued with some basic model set-ups, using a simple geometry (a curved channel) as basic example. The Delft3D introductory course was attended by about 20 people from around the world. By Vanesa Magar, Agent and lecturer in Coastal Engineering, University of Plymouth. ![]()
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