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Tools & Applications

Simulating the impact of natural hazards requires significant computational power. These tools & applications will give you access to high-performance computing power from the world-class systems at Texas Advanced Computing Center.

Simulation

ADCIRC

Coastal circulation and flooding model

  • Flood
  • Hurricane/Tropical Storm
  • Storm Surge
  • Popular
  • Open Source

OpenSees

Geotechnical and structural simulation

  • Earthquake
  • Wind
  • Popular
  • Open Source

EE-UQ

Determine the response of a structure to an earthquake.

  • Earthquake
  • SimCenter
  • Open Source

Hydro-UQ

Assess the performance of a building subjected to wave loading.

  • Tsunami
  • Storm Surge
  • SimCenter
  • Open Source

PBE

Assess structural performance from multiple hazards using probabilistic analysis.

  • SimCenter
  • Open Source

quoFEM

Advance the integration of uncertainty quantification and optimization.

  • SimCenter
  • Open Source

R2D

Facilitate high-resolution assessment the regional impact of natural hazards.

  • SimCenter
  • Open Source

WE-UQ

Assess the performance of a building to wind loading.

  • Hurricane/Tropical Storm
  • SimCenter
  • Open Source

Ansys

Model how infrastructure is affected by various hazards.

  • Licensed

LS-DYNA

Conduct dynamic finite element analysis of complex physics.

  • Earthquake
  • Landslide
  • Tsunami
  • Storm Surge
  • Licensed

MPM

Simulate large-deformation solid and fluid mechanics problems.

  • Landslide
  • Open Source

OpenFOAM

Simulate and analyze fluid flow and heat transfer.

  • Flood
  • Tsunami
  • Storm Surge
  • Fire
  • Open Source

Utilities

Compress Files/Folders

Compress files or a folder.

  • Open Source

Extract Compressed File

Extract a tar, tar.gz, tgz, gz, or zip file.

  • Open Source

Analysis

Jupyter

Interpret python code into intuitive graphs and visualizations with these highly customizable notebooks.

  • Popular
  • Open Source

MATLAB

Analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models.

  • Popular
  • Licensed

HVSRweb

Analyze seismic data to assess site amplification.

  • Earthquake
  • Open Source

GIS Tools

Hazmapper

Visualize, analyze, and share geospatial data.

  • Open Source

QGIS

Create, edit, visualize and analyze geospatial information.

  • Licensed

Visualization

FigureGen

Create images for ADCIRC files using this Fortran program.

  • Open Source

GiD

Create mesh geometry of physical structures for simulations. Useful for finite element modeling.

  • Licensed

ParaView

Visualize datasets of all sizes on various systems.

  • Open Source

Potree

View and convert pointclouds to Potree format for very large LiDAR datasets.

  • Open Source

STKO

Visualize data from OpenSees with this Scientific ToolKit for OpenSees (STKO).

  • Earthquake
  • Licensed

VisIt

Build configurable visualizations to analyze large datasets.

  • Open Source

Hazard Apps

Ground-Motion Portal

Generate seismograms for historical and scenario earthquakes.

  • Earthquake
  • Open Source

Next-Generation Liquefaction

Interact with the Next-Generation Liquefaction database through a series of Jupyter Notebooks.

  • Earthquake
  • Open Source

SWbatch

Rapidly invert experimental dispersion data.

  • Flood
  • Tsunami
  • Storm Surge
  • Open Source

TPU Wind Databases

Access wind pressure databases for buildings from wind tunnel tests.

  • Hurricane/Tropical Storm
  • Open Source

VORTEX-Winds: DEDM-HR

Pool multiple databases of measurements collected through wind tunnel tests/experiments.

  • Hurricane/Tropical Storm
  • Open Source