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Delft Dashboard is open source package and is part of the OpenEarth suite. It is all written in Matlab and provides and an interface for several numerical models (eg. Delft3D-FLOW, XBeach, ed.), however the main functionality of Dashboard is written for Delft3D-FLOW. It uses online available data (bathymetry: GEBCO '08, tide: TPXOTPXO7.2). When one would like to set-up a model within minutes the Model maker toolbox can be used. For more advanced Delft3D-FLOW functionality (e.g. tropical cyclones, tsunami'sed.) also toolboxes are developed. On this page the different Matlab routines applied within Dashboard are elaborateddescribed.
Model maker
The toolbox Model Maker has two functions which can be used for all models supported by Dashboard (Delft3D-FLOW, Delft3D-WAVE, D-FLOW FM and XBeach) which makes it easy to set-up a rectangular grid and matching the bathymetry to it. For Delft3D-FLOW also functionality related to boundary conditions and roughness is implemented.
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A rectangular grid can be created for every model supported by Delft Dashboard. The basic procedure will contain contains of three steps.
1) All the relevant variables (grid orientation, resolution) are loaded from the interface in Dashboard (getHandles).
2) Creation of a full grid based on the active bathymetry (often GEBCO '08). This full grid will have a margin of 20 percent and is thus larger than the grid defined in Dashboard. This is done in order to overcome interpolation issues at the edges of your grid. This full grid will also have a bathymetry in order to determine where the grid needs to be cut-off based on the maximum height (Z Max) described in Dashboard. This step is carried out by the function ddb_ModelMakerToolbox_makeRectangularGrid.
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