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The Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) is a comprehensive environment for one-,
two, and three-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling. A pre- and post-processor for
surface water modeling and design, SMS includes 2D finite element, 2D finite
difference, 3D finite element modeling tools. Supported models include RMA2,
RMA4, ADCIRC, CGWAVE, STWAVE, BOUSS2D, CMS Flow &Wave, and GENESIS, models. A
comprehensive interface has also been developed for facilitating the use of the
FHWA commissioned analysis package FESWMS. The TUFLOW numerical model with
powerful flood analysis, wave analysis, and hurricane analysis is now supported.
SMS also includes a generic model interface, which can be used to support models
which have not been officially incorporated into the system. The numeric
models supported in SMS compute a variety of information applicable to surface
water modeling. Primary applications of the models include calculation of water
surface elevations and flow velocities for shallow water flow problems, for both
steady-state or dynamic conditions. Additional applications include the modeling
of contaminant migration, salinity intrusion, sediment transport (scour and
deposition), wave energy dispersion, wave properties (directions, magnitudes and
amplitudes) and others.
New enhancements and developments continue at the Environmental Modeling
Research Laboratory (EMRL) at Brigham Young University in cooperation with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (USACE-WES), and the
US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). |
