Monthly Archives: June 2007

Simulations on dedicated, high-performance hardware

While all my colleagues are completely absorbed in the last fine tuning of their .ppt presentations (good luck guys!) for IAHR 2007 Conference in Venice, I spend my days (and nights) scanning the web in search of interesting stuff for … Continue reading

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A numerical tool for urban drainage system management and dimensioning

Hi all, this is probably not the most original post of this blog, but I think it could be useful for many users who, like me, didn’t know even the existence of more modern tools for the dimensioning and management … Continue reading

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Pesticides, health, organic farming

Well, well, well. I tend to watch at environmentalism (the Italian one, at least) with some healthy suspicion, but in this case: honours to Legambiente! An association (here briefly described in English) that can proudly claim to be the “mother” … Continue reading

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SMS and MIKE21

Hi dudes, We are MIKE21 (www.dhigroup.com) model users. But we know there is a software package SMS (www.ems-i.com) that more or less does as the same things as MIKE 21, but it is considerable cheaper. Did anyone try SMS? Suggestions? … Continue reading

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Venetian plains hydraulic security

Again, a link for italophon engineers: my 56k modem doesn’t allow me to read the pdf’s, but if you can download them more easily than me, and if you can read italian as I do, you’ll probably find something interesting … Continue reading

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APAT Coastal Work Atlas

Italian Agenzia per la Protezione dell’Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici (

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DHI Italian users – 2nd Conference

Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) and its italian partner Intecno-DHI organize the 2nd italian conference for the DHI software users. The event will be in Turin 10-12 of October 2007.

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