{"id":1322,"date":"2014-07-01T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hylab.infinitodesign.net\/services\/numeric\/the-parflood-model\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:10:39","slug":"the-parflood-model","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/en\/services\/numeric\/the-parflood-model\/","title":{"rendered":"The PARFLOOD model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">We develop our in-house parallel numerical models for flood numerical simulations.<\/p>\n\n<p>The PARFLOOD model is developed by the HyLab research group (Dept. of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma), in collaboration with the Dept. of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences.<\/p>\n\n<p>The model exploits the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) computational capability under the NVIDIA\u2122\u2019s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). A state-of-the-art Finite Volume explicit discretization technique is adopted, which is well balanced, second-order accurate and based on positive depth reconstruction. This led to speedups of two orders of magnitude compared to a single-core CPU allowing for much faster high\u2013resolution simulations.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Applications<\/h2>\n\n<ul><li>Creating accurate flood inundation maps<\/li><li>Tsunami simulation<\/li><li>Flood risk assessment<\/li><li>Analyzing the impact of river infrastructures, and testing solution for their optimal managements<\/li><li>Increasing the resilience and the preparedness by developing emergency planning based on high-resolution simulations<\/li><li>Maximizing the efficiency of flood control reservoirs.<\/li><\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure2dnumerical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"412\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure2dnumerical.jpg?resize=412%2C231\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure2dnumerical.jpg?w=412 412w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure2dnumerical.jpg?resize=300%2C168 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>2D numerical simulation of the Thacker test case of oscillating planar water surface: comparison between analytical and numerical results.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure-interaction-flux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"566\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure-interaction-flux.jpg?resize=566%2C145\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure-interaction-flux.jpg?w=566 566w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hylabnew.unipr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/figure-interaction-flux.jpg?resize=300%2C77 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Iteration flux diagram, each phase is handled by a different GPU kernel.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Model availability<\/h2>\n\n<p>The model is currently shared only for scientific collaboration (contact: <a href=\"mailto:renato.vacondio@unipr.it\">renato.vacondio@unipr.it<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<h2>Developers<\/h2>\n\n<p>Dr. Renato Vacondio, Prof. Paolo Mignosa, Dr. Alessia Ferrari, Dr. Susanna Dazzi, Dr. Federico Prost, Prof. Francesca Aureli (Department of Engineering and Architecture)<\/p>\n\n<p>Prof. Alessandro Dal Pal\u00f9 (Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences)<\/p>\n\n<h2>Main references<\/h2>\n\n<ul><li>Vacondio, R., Dal Pal\u00f9, A., &amp; Mignosa, P. (2014). GPU-enhanced Finite Volume Shallow Water solver for fast flood simulations. Environmental Modelling &amp; Software, 57, 60-75. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsoft.2014.02.003\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsoft.2014.02.003<\/a><\/li><li>Vacondio, R., Dal Pal\u00f9, A., Ferrari, A., Mignosa, P., Aureli, F., &amp; Dazzi, S. (2017). A non- uniform efficient grid type for GPU-parallel shallow water equations models. Environmental Modelling &amp; Software, 88, 119-137. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsoft.2016.11.012\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsoft.2016.11.012<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2>Other publications<\/h2>\n\n<ul><li>Vacondio, R., Aureli, F., Ferrari, A., Mignosa, P., &amp; Dal Pal\u00f9, A. (2016). Simulation of the January 2014 flood on the Secchia river using a fast and high-resolution 2D parallel shallow-water numerical scheme. Natural Hazards, 80 (1), 103-125.<\/li><li>Dazzi, S., Vacondio, R., Dal Pal\u00f9, A., &amp; Mignosa, P. (2018). A local time stepping algorithm for GPU-accelerated 2D shallow water models. Advances in Water Resources, 111, 274-288.<\/li><li>Ferrari, A., D&#8217;Oria, M., Vacondio, R., Pal\u00f9, A. D., Mignosa, P., &amp; Tanda, M. G. (2018). Discharge hydrograph estimation at upstream-ungauged sections by coupling a Bayesian methodology and a 2-D GPU shallow water model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(10), 5299-5316.<\/li><li>Mignosa, P., Vacondio, R., Aureli, F., Dazzi, S., Ferrari, A., &amp; Prost, F. (2018). &#8220;High resolution 2D modelling of rapidly varying flows: some case studies.&#8221; Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment, Special Issue 2018. DOI: 10.4408\/IJEGE.2018-01.S-14.<\/li><li>Dazzi, S., Vacondio, R., &amp; Mignosa, P. (2019). Integration of a levee breach erosion model in a GPU-accelerated 2D shallow water equations code. Water Resources Research, 55 (1), 682-702.<\/li><li>Ferrari, A., Viero, D. P., Vacondio, R., Defina, A., &amp; Mignosa, P. (2019). Flood inundation modeling in urbanized areas: A mesh-independent porosity approach with anisotropic friction. Advances in water resources, 125, 98-113.<\/li><li>Dazzi, S., Vacondio, R., &amp; Mignosa, P. (2020). Internal boundary conditions for a GPU-accelerated 2D shallow water model: Implementation and applications. Advances in Water Resources, 137, 103525.<\/li><li>Ferrari, A., Dazzi, S., Vacondio, R., &amp; Mignosa, P. (2020). Enhancing the resilience to flooding induced by levee breaches in lowland areas: a methodology based on numerical modelling. Natural Hazards &amp; Earth System Sciences, 20(1).<\/li><li>Aureli, F., Prost, F., Vacondio, R., Dazzi, S., &amp; Ferrari, A. (2020). A GPU-Accelerated Shallow-Water Scheme for Surface Runoff Simulations. Water, 12(3), 637.<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We develop our in-house parallel numerical models for flood numerical simulations. 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