Author Archives: Alvise

Mathematical Modelling of Groundwater Flow (for Engineers)

Posted on 01/08/2007 by Alvise

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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Sun in 3D

Posted on 26/07/2007 by Alvise

Have you ever seen Sun in 3D? NASA’s Stereo mission is taken picture in 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light from two different satellites to build 3-D solar shape by using stereo reconstruction. Main purpose is to reveal the … Continue reading →

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Chemical Weather Forecast

Posted on 25/07/2007 by Alvise

This is really cool: a forecasting system of Chemical Weather! CETEMPS center of University of Aquila (Italy) developed an integrated system that mounts a chemistry-transport model over a meteorological model (Chemical Weather Forecast). The result is the 48-h forecast of … Continue reading →

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MATLAB DFS interface

Posted on 24/07/2007 by Alvise

DHI released the new MATLAB DFS interface library. This is a major extension compared to the previous version (2004). The new version supports e.g. read and write of flexible mesh data (dfsu 2D and 3D). From DHIgroup website, I see … Continue reading →

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Water level Forecast for Venice Safeguard Project

Posted on 23/07/2007 by Alvise

I have already posted on Oceanographic Modelling. My primary interest is in coupling meteorological and hydrodynamical mathematical models to forecast storm surges and wave conditions in near-shore areas. Venetian MOSE project involves knowledge, among others, of tides in Venice Lagoon … Continue reading →

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Stereo measurement of water surface waves

Posted on 20/07/2007 by Alvise

Image Analysis techniques are used for retrieving water surface wave field spatially and temporally from CCD-images and CCD-image-sequences. The technique developed utilizes binocular stereogrammetry to recover topographic information from a sequence of synchronous, overlapping video images. The complete geometrical method … Continue reading →

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Child labour

Posted on 18/07/2007 by Alvise

Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of child labour worldwide. Every day 132 million children 5-14 years of age are forced to work the land, often in unhealthy and hazardous conditions. A FAO report reveals it. I’m a Brand New Dad, … Continue reading →

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Oceanographic modelling

Posted on 11/07/2007 by Alvise

Waves forecasting is a quite recent issue in mathematical modelling and forecasting. Integrating meterological models (global and locals) to forecast wind and pressure maps, wave models can predict the waves heights, waves directions, and wave periods. An interesting contribution is … Continue reading →

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SMS and MIKE21

Posted on 16/06/2007 by Alvise

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 →