Tuflow and estry manual Version 3

2.1Software Structure

TUFLOW and ESTRY are the computational engines for carrying out 2D/1D hydrodynamic calculations. In their PC form, they do not have their own graphical user interface, but utilise GIS and other software for the creation, manipulation and viewing of data. These software are:

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  A GIS that can import/export .mif/.mid files (MapInfo Interchange Format files).
  
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  3D surface modelling software running inside the GIS (eg. Vertical Mapper) for the creation and interrogation of a DTM, and for creating 3D surfaces of water levels, depths, hazard, etc.
  
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  SMS (Surfacewater Modelling System) for the viewing of results and creation of flow animations.
  
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  A good text editor such as UltraEdit. UltraEdit has been colour customised especially for TUFLOW formatted files.
  
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  Spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel.
  
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  MIKE 11 and ISIS cross-section editors are sometimes used for managing and editing 1D cross-sections. TUFLOW and ESTRY read the processed cross-section data text formats of these software.
  

The above combination of software offers a very powerful and economical system for 2D/1D hydraulic modelling.