In November, we held the first DebrisFrame - KickOff Meeting with the main project members from BOKU University, the Austrian Avalanche and Torrent Service (WLV) and the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW) in November. In summary, we agreed on the general goals of the DebrisFrame project and the next steps. These are as follows:
- Processing of case studies for the GitHub repository
- Development of generic input hydrographs
- Definition of the right location for the input hydrograph
- Development of a generic topography for debris flows
- Evaluation of possible approaches to consider buildings and obstructions in the simulation domain
- Integration of module PyTopRun
Starting conditions
PR #1167 (https://github.com/OpenNHM/AvaFrame/pull/1167 ) introduced initial hydrograph input functionality to com1DFA for debris flow simulations. Users can now provide a polygon defining the input area and a CSV table with timesteps, thickness values, and optional velocity values in the Inputs/HYDR directory. Particles are initialized at defined time steps within the polygon location with the specified thickness and initial velocity. This is an initial implementation with further improvements planned - see DebrisFrame Issue #13 for ongoing development. It is also possible that the process will be reworked…
Paula, Julian