Today Edward asked if I'm interested to meet Dr. Mikhail Bolgov, Head of the Surface Water Modelling Department, Water Problems Institute from Russian Academy of Science who was visiting Deltares.
They participate in some research project where they would like to use SOBEK to simulate River Volga:
Modules planned to be used there are:
- Sobek 1D flow for Volga river and tributaries
- Sobek 2D flow for the floodplains
They curently started with model discretization and already entered all cross-section for Volga river. Nearest weeks they will receive DEM of the area and will start working with 2D model. Questions which were arised are:
- How to create model easilly using available DEM data (unclear in which file format they will get it, AutoCAD / ArcGIS)?
- How to automate SOBEK 1D / 2D model with external model or in other words how output of the SOBEK model can be easilly converted into some third-party ASCII file format. They need it in order to couple SOBEK with their own ground-water models and with some US models (like MODFLOW).
The project is interesting since we don't have many clients in Russia yet and Volga is a big river crossing many cities so there will be many other clients interested to use it if project will succeed.
Edward Melger can provide more information about the project.