Hydrodymamic modelling of coastal inundation

A mesh generator, called pmesh, allows the user to set up the geometry of the problem interactively and to identify boundary segments and regions using symbolic tags. These tags may then be used to set the actual boundary conditions and attributes for different regions (e.g. the Manning friction coefficient) for each simulation. Most AnuGA components are written in the object-oriented programming language Python. Software written in Python can be produced quickly and can be readily adapted to changing requirements throughout its lifetime. Computationally intensive components are written for efficiency in C routines working directly with the Numerical Python structures. The animation tool developed for AnuGA is based on OpenSceneGraph, an Open Source Software (OSS) component allowing high level interaction with sophisticated graphics primitives.