Numerical Capabilities

The Lab has access to powerful computers, including Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).  In addition, the Lab has Newton, a dedicated computer cluster consisting of 7 nodes each with 8 processing cores and 24 GB of RAM.  Several research codes are employed in day-to-day numerical simulations, and include:

  • RVRMeander
  • PAR GPFEP
  • STREMR HySeD
  • Illinois Transient Model
  • Custom versions of SWMM
  • Illinois Urban Hydrology Model

In addition, several commercial or publicly-available codes are used:

  • FLOW-3D
  • FLUENT
  • OpenFOAM
  • SWMM
  • InfoSWMM

The lab has in-house numerical experts as well as staff programmers.