Monthly Archives: August 2007

AIOM Off-shore and Marine Engineering Association

AIOM is the Italian Association for Off-Shore and Marine Engineering. AIOM publishes periodically a technical bulletin in italian language. People interested in publishing technical articles, in italian, can submit them for evaluation to bollettino@aiom.info AIOM bulletins are freely downloadable from … Continue reading

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Navier-Stokes on matlab (reprise): ifiss 2.2

Follow this link to a useful (and free) matlab code that is basically a PDE solver adapted to common problems like diffusion, convection-diffusion, Stokes flow and Navier-Stokes flow problems (incompressible fluid dynamics). I am talking about ifiss2.2 or Incompressible Flow … Continue reading

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2-D unstructured mesh Matlab generator

MESH2D is a toolbox for the generation and manipulation of unstructured triangular meshes in MATLAB. High quality meshes can be generated automatically for user defined geometries. These meshes are suitable for subsequent Finite Element Method or Finite Volume Method analysis. … Continue reading

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2-D Navier-Stokes equations Matlab solver

I am pretty sure that any hydraulic engineer wants to have a code for integrating Navier-Stokes equations over a complex domain. Fortunately there are some cool guys who share their work.This is what Navier-Stokes Solver (Navier2d) is: a Matlab solver … Continue reading

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Wave Overtopping Manual

State of the art of studies on Wave Overtopping of Sea Defences and Related Structures is finally reported in a manual at http://www.overtopping-manual.com/index.html released in August 2007. This Overtopping Manual gives guidance on analysis and/or prediction of wave overtopping for … Continue reading

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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in Fortran

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a quite recent computational method developed to simulate fluid flows. Differently from other mathematical models of fluid dynamics, SPH describes the mean from the lagrangian point of view. This means that the fluid is divided … Continue reading

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Photovoltaic electricity potential

Italian ecological sensitivity has been finally awaken by the money smell. It’s not a hot news, but recent laws that favour investments in solar photovoltaic and thermal fields has achieved a substantial grow in public attention to this “ecological” theme. … Continue reading

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Confined seepage in Matlab

By using Partial Differential Equation Toolbox of Matlab language, I generated a simple problem of confined seepage. To use it save flow_v2.m (mouse right button and save destination as) open Matlab; type pdetool at the Matlab command line; open saved … Continue reading

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Coastal List

Coastal_list is an e-mail list for coastal engineers. In Oceanographic field, you can find: Job opportunities; PhD positions; Conference calls-for-papers; References. But principally it is a way to call for data, information, articles, news about Oceans. To join Coastal_list you … Continue reading

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Mathematical Modelling of Groundwater Flow (for Engineers)

A Canadian environmental engineer friend of mine asked me a consultancy on Groundwater Mathematical Modelling; water seepage through levees, in his case. I took this occasion for updating my personal list of softwares (free, partially free, and not free) that … Continue reading

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