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Purple simulated map of flooding in Houston, TexasScience

TRITON: A Powerful Toolkit for Modern Flood Modeling

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee Technological University have created a 2D, open-source flood inundation model designed for a multiarchitecture computing system. The Two-dimensional Runoff Inundation Toolkit for Operational Needs, or TRITON, can use multiple graphics processing units, or GPUs, to…
Betsy Sonewald
July 25, 2022
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3-D Models Help Scientists Gauge Flood Impact

Heavy rainfall can cause rivers and drainage systems to overflow or dams to break, leading to flood events that bring damage to property and road systems as well potential loss of human life. One such event in 2008 cost $10 billion in damages for the entire state of Iowa. After…
Rachel McDowell
July 18, 2017