Flood risk assessment is important in minimizing damages and economic losses caused by flood events.
A team of researchers from Vienna University of Technology and visual computing firm VRVis, are using GPUs to run fast simulations of large-scale scenarios, including river flooding, storm-water events and underground flows.
The researcher’s primary interest is in decision-making systems, where they evaluate many different scenarios and select the solution with the best outcome, which is usually very computationally expensive. Therefore, simulation runs need to be as fast as possible to reduce the overall time required to find the best solutions.
In their real-world test case, the researchers used CUDA and a GTX TITAN GPU to simulate the overtopping of mobile flood protection walls in Cologne, Germany. The overtopping happens when the water in the Rhine River raises above 11.9 meters.
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- Researchers from Vienna University of Technology and VRVis use CUDA and a GTX TITAN GPU to accelerate large-scale flood simulations for decision-making systems.
- Fast GPU-based simulations enable evaluation of many scenarios to select the best flood protection solutions while reducing computational time.
- A real-world test case modeled overtopping of mobile flood protection walls in Cologne, Germany, when the Rhine River exceeds 11.9 meters.
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