Cases · 01
Subject
free_surface · 2D shallow water
Hardware
Laptop CPU
Status
Passes its check

The Waal at Nijmegen

Abstract

7,000 particles carried by the steady flow of the river Waal at high discharge, over aerial imagery. The main channel runs fastest past Nijmegen; slower sheets of water cross the flooded floodplains inside the meanders. One second of video is ten minutes of river time.

Figure 1
1700 × 340 cells · particles advected in post-processing

How it was checked

Reference
The validated 50 m rerun, compared with Deltares’ D-Flow FM elsewhere; Q = 10,165 m³/s
Caveat
50 m cells don’t resolve the groynes, and the bathymetry predates the Spiegelwaal side channel.

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