SMS (hydrology software)

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SMS
Developer(s) Aquaveo
Stable release
13.3 / September 2023;1 year ago (2023-09)
Operating system Windows
Type Surface water modeling software
License Proprietary
Website Official website
WMS
Developer(s) Aquaveo
Stable release
11.2 / May 2023;2 years ago (2023-05)
Operating system Windows XP and later
Platform x86, x64
Size 1.1 GB
Type Surface-water hydrology software
License Proprietary
Website Official website

SMS (Surface-water Modeling System) is a complete program for building and simulating surface water models from Aquaveo. It features 1D and 2D modeling and a unique conceptual model approach. Currently supported models include ADCIRC, [1] CMS-FLOW2D, FESWMS, [2] TABS, [3] TUFLOW, [4] BOUSS-2D, [5] CGWAVE, [6] STWAVE, [7] CMS-WAVE (WABED), GENESIS, [8] PTM, and WAM.

Contents

Version 9.2 introduced the use of XMDF (eXtensible Model Data Format), which is a compatible extension of HDF5. XMDF files are smaller and allow faster access times than ASCII files.

The Watershed Modeling System (WMS) is a proprietary water modeling software application used to develop watershed computer simulations. The software provides tools to automate various basic and advanced delineations, calculations, and modeling processes. [9] It supports river hydraulic and storm drain models, lumped parameter, regression, 2D hydrologic modeling of watersheds, and can be used to model both water quantity and water quality. As of January 2017, supported models include HEC-1, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, TR-20, TR-55, NFF, Rational, MODRAT, HSPF, CE-QUAL-W2, GSSHA, SMPDBK, and other models. [10]

History

SMS was initially developed by the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University (later renamed in September, 1998 to Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory or EMRL) in the late 1980s on Unix workstations. The development of SMS was funded primarily by The United States Army Corps of Engineers and is still known as the Department of Defense Surface-water Modeling System or DoD SMS. It was later ported to Windows platforms in the mid 1990s and support for HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, and Solaris platforms was discontinued.

In April 2007, the main software development team at EMRL entered private enterprise as Aquaveo LLC, [11] and continue to develop SMS and other software products, such as WMS (Watershed Modeling System) and GMS (Groundwater Modeling System).

WMS was initially developed by the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University in the early 1990s on Unix workstations. James Nelson, Norman Jones, and Woodruff Miller wrote a 1992 paper titled "Algorithm for Precise Drainage-Basin Delineation" that was published in the March 1994 issue of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering . [12] The paper described an algorithm that could be used to describe the flow of water in a drainage basin, thereby defining the drainage basin.

The development of WMS was funded primarily by The United States Army Corps of Engineers (COE). In 1997, WMS was used by the COE to model runoff in the Sava River basin in Bosnia. [13] The software was sold commercially by Environmental Modeling Systems. [14]

It was later ported to Windows platforms in the mid 1990s. WMS 6.0 (2000) [14] was the last supported version for HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, and Solaris platforms. Development of WMS was done by the Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory (EMRL) at Brigham Young University (BYU) until April 2007, when the main software development team at EMRL incorporated as Aquaveo. Royalties from the software are paid to the engineering department at BYU. [15]

The planners of the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, used WMS software to simulate terrorist attacks on water infrastructure such as the Jordanelle Reservoir. [16]

Examples of SMS Implementation

References

  1. ADCIRC.org Archived 12 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine . ADCIRC.org (1 December 2011). Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  2. FHWA.dot.gov. FHWA.dot.gov (30 August 2011). Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  3. CHL.erdc.usace.army.mil. US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  4. TUFLOW.com Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine . TUFLOW.com. Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  5. CHL.erdc.usace.army.mil. US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  6. CHL.erdc.usace.army.mil. US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  7. CHL.erdc.usace.army.mil. US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  8. CHL.erdc.usace.army.mil. US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  9. Edsel, B.D.; et al. (2011). "Watershed Modeling and its Applications: A State-of-the-Art Review" (PDF). The Open Hydrology Journal. 5 (1): 26–50. Bibcode:2011OHJ.....5...26D. doi: 10.2174/1874378101105010026 .
  10. "WMS Supported Models". Aquaveo. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  11. Aquaveo.com. Aquaveo.com. Retrieved on 18 December 2011.
  12. Nelson, E.J.; Jones, N.L.; Miller, A.W. (1994). "An algorithm for precise drainage basin delineation" (PDF). Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 120 (3): 298–312. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1994)120:3(298).
  13. "Sava River Basin, Bosnia". Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory. Archived from the original on 8 February 1998. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  14. 1 2 "WMS Home Page". Environmental Modeling Systems, Inc. Archived from the original on 9 March 2000. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  15. Hollingshead, Todd (6 June 2005). "BYU prof's 3-D software makes an art out of the science of predicting a deluge". The Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  16. Chai, Nathan K. (Fall 2002). "Modeling the World's Waters". BYU Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  17. Gerstner, N.; Belzner, F.; Thorenz, C. (2014). Lehfeldt; Kopmann (eds.). Simulation of Flood Scenarios with Combined 2D/3D Numerical Models (PDF). International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, 2014. Hamburg: Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau. pp. 975–981. ISBN   978-3-939230-32-8.
  18. Li, Honghai; Sanchez, Alejandro; Wu, Weiming; Reed, Christopher (August 2013). "Implementation of Structures in the CMS: Part I, Rubble Mound" (PDF). Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Notes-IV-93: 9 pages. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2015.
  19. Marusic, G.; Ciufudean, C. (June 2013). "Current state of research on water quality of Prut River" (PDF). Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Environment, Ecosystems and Development: 177–180.
  20. Lyubimova, T.; et al. (March 2013). "Numerical modelling of admixture transport in a turbulent flow at river confluence". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 46 (1): 012028. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/416/1/012028 .