Physics and Ecology in Fluids: Modeling and Numerical Experiments
Congratulations to our Senior Software Developer Derek Steinmoeller for publishing his latest book! 'Physics and Ecology in Fluids: Modeling and Numerical Experiments' was written by Dr. Marek Stastna, Professor, Dept. of Applied Math, University of Waterloo and his former graduate student Dr. Derek Steinmoeller, Scientist/Senior Software Developer at Aquanty Inc.
The book was written to help fill a perceived gap in the current understanding of the interactions between the motion of fluids in natural bodies of water and the population dynamics of the living organisms that reside therein. The book takes a novel approach to teaching by using the reader's laptop to run open-source simulation codes in a kind of 'virtual laboratory' to explore the movement and evolution of fluid flows and the organisms that are represented as tracers of the flow.
Manitoba Co-operator - Hydrology forecasting tool drills down to field level
Farmers in the Assiniboine River basin will soon have access to a new tool designed to help them make predictions about water flow at the field level. The tool was developed by the hydrologic modelling firm Aquanty, in cooperation with the Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association. They are able to combine their model with remote sensing data on things like soil moisture levels and real time groundwater monitoring sensors to set the initial conditions before launching a hydrologic forecast. “Combining that with insights on how water management infrastructure is maintained during floods and droughts and using cloud computing infrastructure, we can readily construct these models and deliver them via an app to your fingertips,”
Research for Industries (RFI) Lecture Series: Steven K. Frey
Aquanty, which is a research spin off from the University of Waterloo, is at the forefront of developing state-of-the-art fully-integrated hydrologic models to better understand and predict water resource behavior and availability under both near term weather, and long term climate change scenarios. Aquanty’s flagship software platform, HydroGeoSphere (HGS), is a state-of-the-art fully-integrated GW-SW simulator that can couple with both weather forecasts and future climate scenarios in order to derive predictive insight on water resources. As part of the continental scale Canada 1 Water (C1W) project, HGS models are being built for all of Canada.