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Additional viewing capability is available via several other options: – Using Commercial Software such as WaterRide (Ref to WebSite) – Using Free tools Such as Mirone (Grid viewing software) which has a specific tool called Aquamoto – Using SWW2DEM in combination with any GIS platform – Using Crayfish viewer as plugin in QGIS – Possibly using tools such as VisIt (Ref to Web Site)

=== Validation studies === ANUGA has been extensively validated against wave tank experiments and field studies where available, and ships with a validation test suite with about 30 analytical solutions, wave tank and field tests. Examples include validation against the wave tank experiment for the Okushiri 1995 tsunami, wave tank runup experiments at University of Queensland, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami impact at Patong Beach, comparison to other models, ANUGA was a late entry in the UK 2D model Benchmarking project in 2010 using version 1.1beta_7501. As a result, not all tests were completed. However of the basic tests ANUGA was well within the comparable range of results of other models. Since late 2013 the standard test suite for the model also includes a full catchment model (Towradgi Creek Catchment) which has been validated against the 17 August 1998 storm event.

=== ANUGA software development methodology === ANUGA was developed as an AGILE project so with strong adherence to Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration. ANUGA has more than 1200 individual tests that can be run by users or developers to verify that a given installation works as expected. ANUGA is fully versioned using the source code control system git, which allows a user to replicate a model run from a previous version at any time. It also of course thereby allows comparison with the current version.

=== ANUGA development timeline summary === Noting that ANUGA runs both in serial (1 core) and parallel (many cores) tested on 1000s. Here is a rough time line of major developments: Date : Version : Comment 1999 : ------- : Zoppou Roberts Paper 2004 : ------- : Storm Surge Open Source project started at Geoscience Australia in collaboration with the ANU. In: AusGEO news, No. 75, September 2004; pages: 8-9. Availability: <https://www.ga.gov.au/bigobj/GA5018.pdf 2005 : ------- : Project changed to focus on Tsunami Inundation following the 2004 disaster and was published as such at MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand; pages: 518–523. Availability: http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim05/papers/nielsen.pdf 2006/08/16: 3500 : Moved code to SVN 2006/09/07: 3548 : Offline viewer with Animation capability 2006/09/20: : Published work on Tsunami Modelling answers tsunami questions. In: AusGEO news, No. 83, September 2006; Availability: <https://www.ga.gov.au/bigobj/GA8710.pdf
2006/12/19: 4092 : First Public Release Open Source & Free: https://sourceforge.net/projects/anuga/files/OldFiles/anuga-1.0_4092.tgz/download 2007/06/04: 4530 : Rainfall forcing function added: Dr. Ole Nielsen, Rudy van Drie 2008/03/28: 5178 : Rainfall forcing to polygons : Dr. Ole Nielsen, Rudy van Drie 2008/06/10: 5435 : Bridges/ Culverts (using US Dept of Transportation Method as adapted by Generalised Equations by Boyd in the WBNM model): Dr. Ole Nielsen, Assoc. Prof. Stephen Roberts, Rudy Van Drie, Dr. Petar Milevski 2008/07/15: 5585 : Multi-Barrel culvert added 2009/08/14: 7376 : Moveable Bed (The bed elevation can be a time varying quantity): Dr. Ole Nielsen 2009/08/19: 7452 : Move culvert from Forcing to Operator: Assoc. Prof. Stephen Roberts 2009/ : ---- : Roberts and Nielsen featured at the ABC New Inventors: https://web.archive.org/web/20110428023729/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s3023743.htm
2010/ : ---- : Sediment Transport and Vegetation Operators being developed: Mariella Perignon refer https://github.com/mperignon/anugaSed 2010/11/11: 8069 : Major Version 1.2.0 package released 2010/11/25: 8087 : Minor Package up date 1.2.1 released 2011/01/31: 8116 : Update to Wind and Pressure Terms 2011/03/08: 8128 : Model domain Operators concept developed 2011/03/22: 8161 : Kinematic Viscosity moved from Forcing to Operator 2012/xx/xx: xxxx : Depth Varying Mannings Roughness Function added: Assoc. Prof Stephen Roberts, Rudy Van Drie 2012/07/31: 8485 : Erosion Based on Bed Shear Operator: Assoc. Prof Stephen Roberts, Rudy Van Drie 2013/05/27: 8877 : Add a gate structure capability: Assoc. Prof Stephen Roberts, Rudy Van Drie 2013/09/12: 8973 : Set value by Grid(RADAR Rainfall & Roughness Grid): Assoc. Prof Stephen Roberts, Rudy Van Drie 2013/12/05: 0debdd6 : Added DE algorithms, well balanced and discontinuous elevation: Gareth Davies 2014/07/10: bf590e3 : Set up boundary flux integral operator: Gareth Davies
2014/08/05: af03985 : Reporting of mass conservation: Gareth Davies 2014/12/18: 1.2.5 : Moved package to GitHub 2015/02/07: 1.3.1 : Major change to directory structure 2015/03/19: 1.3.10 : Moved to GitHub.com//GeoscienceAustralia/anuga_core 2015/04/28: 1.3.11 : Updated manual and added validations_report to doc directory 2015/05/04: 2.0 : A major release where we moved to the DE0 algorithm (Discontinuous Elevation) as default algorithm 2016/06/28: 321cd1e : Added in erosion operator provided by Ted Rigby 2017/05/20: GitHub Branch created to initiate development of SWMMLINK 1D Pipe network to ANUGA 2D Dr. Ole Nielsen, Assoc. Prof. Stephen Roberts, Rudy Van Drie, Dr. Petar Milevski

=== ANUGA development ideas for the future === The development of ANUGA is ongoing and dynamic. The introduction of "Operators" was a major step in that it allowed many additional possibilities. The future development is currently driven by both performance increases and adding capability. Currently there is work underway on the following items (that will be moved to the above list once fully achieved):

Easily availability to a GPU capable version (Beta version is currently working) Linking to a highly capable urban pipe network model such as SWMM see e.g. Ongoing speed improvements to the code

=== Limitations === Although a flexible hydrodynamic modelling tool, ANUGA has a number of limitations that any potential user needs to be aware of. They are: