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 the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Simulation
ADCIRC
Model coastal circulation and flooding.
- 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 various hazards affect infrastructure.
- 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
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
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