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OilFlow2D Tutorials

Oil Spill Model

Hands-on tutorial chapters in source order.

Tutorial chapters

Chapters follow the order of the source tutorial.

  1. Introduction - The main purpose of these tutorials is to assist model users in performing hands-on applications of the OilFlow2D model using QGIS.
  2. Creating your first river flow application with OilFlow2D - This section provides a step-by-step guide to help you get started with an OilFlow2D project using the QGIS interface.
  3. Simulating overland oil spills with OilFlow2D - This tutorial shows how to simulate oil spreading over land using OilFlow2D.
  4. Multiple Scenario Project Tool - When establishing a mathematical model of a system, it is very common to perform a variety of runs with different values of the most significant parameters to see their effects.
  5. Simulating Oil Pipeline Breaks - This tutorial shows how to simulate oil pipeline breaks and create spill sources for OilFlow2D.
  6. Simulating overland oil spills from a tank break - This tutorial shows how to model an overland oil spill released from a tank.
  7. Oil spills in Rivers. Part I: Hydrodynamics - This tutorial builds the river hydrodynamic model needed before running the oil-spill simulation.
  8. Oil spills in Rivers. Part II: Oil Spill - This tutorial uses the river hydrodynamic results to simulate oil transport and trajectory.
  9. Oil spills in Coastal Areas. Part I: Coastal Hydrodynamics - This tutorial builds the coastal hydrodynamic model needed before running the oil-spill simulation.
  10. Oil spills in Coastal Areas. Part II: Oil Spill - This tutorial uses the coastal hydrodynamic results to simulate oil transport and trajectory.
  11. Wind driven circulation - OilFlow2D allows defining wind velocity on the water surface to account for the effect of the wind stress on the flow velocities.
  12. Using Manning's n ESRI shape files - This tutorial illustrates how to use Manning's n files in ESRI shape file format to assign Manning's n values to an existing project using the QGIS interface.
  13. Post-processing calculations - OilFlow2D has three output controls that make it easier for the user to analyze the results of the runs at specific sites in the domain calculator.
  14. Advanced digitization/snapping - In many cases the drawing of polygons that share borders (contiguous) is required.
  15. Creating raster elevations from X Y Z data sets - The files required to follow this tutorial can be extracted from the 'ExampleProjects' zip file under the 'InterpolatingRasterTutorial' folder.
  16. Setting up a Google Cloud VM for GPU-Accelerated Simulations - This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide for setting up a powerful virtual machine (VM) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) equipped with an NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU.
  17. Creating high-impact graphics and animations using Paraview - ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application.