Flood Modeller-TUFLOW Benchmarking
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Flood Modeller-TUFLOW Benchmarking
Introduction
The fixed grid TUFLOW software is available in 2 solvers, an implicit finite-difference solver which is now branded as TUFLOW Classic, and an explicit finite volume engine called TUFLOW HPC which stands for Heavily Parallelised Compute. The solution scheme for TUFLOW HPC has independent calculations which can be parallelised and when run over multiple processors or on a GPU provides a significant reduction in run times. The following wiki post highlights the potential speed up that could be achieved with utilisation of the TUFLOW HPC engine using GPU card technology:-
The benchmark models in these tests are 2D only models or 1D-2D models which utilise TUFLOW 1D ESTRY engine. The speed up is due to 2D calculations being distributed and undertaken in parallel but it’s affect is also seen in integrated 1D-2D models. As well as its own 1D engine which allows the modelling and integration of pipe network models and river models together with a 2D domain, TUFLOW can also be integrated with a range of other 1-Dimensional software including Flood Modeller Pro amongst others.