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Dear FEFLOW
User, There’s no slack season for FEFLOW - even in
(European) summer holiday time we have some interesting FEFLOW modeling news
to pass on to you: ·
The FEFLOW
newsletters will contain a Tips & Tricks section as a regular feature from now on. We start with a description
of a workflow for Selective 3D Visualization
that you may not have hit on. ·
The dates for the
3rd International FEFLOW User Conference
(FEFLOW 2012) have been fixed:
Please mark September 3 through September 7 2012 in your calendar now! ·
There’s good news
for all of who are into extended uncertainty analysis and inverse modeling:
We are preparing a license model for Bulk Short-Term License Rental, and even
before we finally publish it you may take advantage of the new conditions –
just ask for a tailored quote! ·
If you are a
frequent user of the FEFLOW online resources, you may already have seen that
the FEFLOW website has been updated with a new design and new contents. It’s up to all
of you to help further improving the information available on the site – tell
us about your FEFLOW-related publications and case studies! In the FEFLOW channel on
YouTube, you can now find cutting-edge
stereoscopic 3D FEFLOW animations that you can watch with 3D monitors or TVs
or even colored glasses. In case you have published FEFLOW-related YouTube
content, we will happily add your videos to our playlist. ·
The FEFLOW distribution network is being restructured, and with this process Schlumberger Water
Services (SWS) have terminated their services as a FEFLOW distribution
partner. ·
Our colleagues
Dr. Volker Clausnitzer (FEFLOW Development), Julia Mayer (FEFLOW Services) and
Douglas Graham (Water Resources Software, DHI Denmark) have attended the MODFLOW and More conference in Golden/Colorado. Read their report below! At the end of the newsletter, we have listed upcoming training courses and the latest FEFLOW patches as usual. Your FEFLOW Services team
Julia
Mayer, Peter Schätzl, Bastian Rau, Alexander Renz |
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3rd International FEFLOW User Conference (FEFLOW
2012) We’ve heard the question
numerous times, and indeed with recently increasing frequency: “When will the next FEFLOW
conference take place?” We now have an answer: Settling on a three-year interval, the 3rd
International FEFLOW User Conference (FEFLOW 2012) will be held from September 3rd through September 7th
2012 in Berlin, Germany. Staying true to our
tried-and-proven format, three days of plenary and poster sessions will be
followed by two days of training courses. While many of you had
appreciatively remarked on the relaxed atmosphere and green surroundings of
the conference hotel in Potsdam in 2009, others had suggested using a more
central location for the next meeting. Having selected a venue in the quarter
of Köpenick, we are hoping to accommodate both
preferences in 2012! Much older than Berlin itself and located between the
arms of the rivers Dahme and Spree, Köpenick has kept its small-town touch while at the same
time the bustling Berlin city center is within easy reach via public
transport. All essential details about
the conference, including important deadlines, will be published shortly on
the dedicated FEFLOW-conference web site (http://www.feflow.info/feflow2012). |
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Bulk Short-Term License Rental You need a large number of
FEFLOW licenses for a short time period, e.g., for Parallel PEST runs or sensitivity or scenario analyses? Given the cheap parallel
computing power available nowadays, and the flexible software supporting it,
there have never been better times to explore the real power of your
groundwater models by ruling out uncertainty and by identifying parameters
via inverse modeling. We are currently preparing a specific
license model for this purpose. While we are in the process of finalizing the
details, please contact our sales team (sales@dhi-wasy.de) or your local DHI office (http://www.dhigroup.com/Contact/DHIOffices.aspx) for a tailored quote! |
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Literature References
and Case Studies One of the most frequented
pages on the FEFLOW website is the list
of literature references for FEFLOW-based work. As we are sure that the
list is far from being complete, we’d like to encourage all of you to inform
the FEFLOW Services team (support@dhi-wasy.de) about your own publications or publications you come across! We all
will benefit from a further extension of the list and database by finding
literature references as well as helpful background on FEFLOW modeling more
easily. We are also keen to publish selected
case studies of FEFLOW applications,
especially of large and complex models or novel modeling approaches on our
website and/or in FEFLOW marketing material. If you are interested in
presenting your / your companies work, please contact our Services team (support@dhi-wasy.de) for obtaining a template and example document. |
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Stereoscopic 3D FEFLOW Animations on YouTube Once again FEFLOW sets a
milestone in visualization for groundwater modeling: The FEFLOW channel on
YouTube – www.youtube.com/feflowbydhi - now contains the first stereoscopic 3D videos.
Watch the simulation animations in real 3D, using simple colored glasses or a
3D TV or monitor (active or passive 3D). Stereoscopic 3D visualization
and video export options will be publicly available in the next version
FEFLOW 6.1. |
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Change in
Distribution Network - SWS no longer FEFLOW distributor Due to an overall
restructuring of the distribution partner network for FEFLOW, Schlumberger
Water Services (SWS) have terminated their services as a distribution partner
for FEFLOW at the end of June 2011. Distribution services for FEFLOW have
been taken over by the local DHI offices (e.g., DHI Canada for Canada). For
countries without a local DHI office or DHI software reseller DHI-WASY in
Germany acts as the primary distribution partner. We would like to thank all
former Waterloo Hydrogeologic and later SWS employees
for their extremely helpful efforts to market and distribute FEFLOW all
around the globe for the last 15 years. Without these efforts, FEFLOW would
not have the status as a quasi-standard software for
high-level groundwater modeling that it has today. |
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FEFLOW at MODFLOW
and More 2011 The DHI Groundwater Modeling
Center recently presented the latest FEFLOW developments at the traditional MODFLOW
and More groundwater conference in Golden (Colorado, USA). The globally
increasing interest in geothermal installations was clearly seen in the
positive feedback on our oral presentation of coupling FEFLOW and TRNSYS for
the simulation of seasonal underground heat storage and recovery. In a poster contribution, we provocatively
posed the question whether the use of advanced visualization techniques
indeed leads to better groundwater models, or merely provides more effective
marketing tools for presenting models and results to clients and the public.
A lively debate was generated in which we strongly argued for making full and
proper use of today’s graphics technology in groundwater modeling. Fittingly, the possibility to live-test the
interactive stereoscopic features of the next FEFLOW version proved a true
crowd puller at the DHI exhibition booth.
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Tips & Tricks
– Selective 3D Visualization Step 1: Create an elemental selection
of the domain of interest. Step 2: Store the created elemental
selection and rename it if desired.
Step 3: The stored elemental
selection can be used as spatial unit. By activating the elemental selection
in the Spatial Units panel (single click) and double-clicking any parameter,
it is possible to plot the selected parameter onto the selected elements only.
An alternative is to plot the geometry (faces and
edges) of the stored element selection only, without plotting any additional
parameter: Simply double click on the stored selection in the Spatial Units
panel. You have worked out your own particular
way of achieving something otherwise impossible in FEFLOW? Email us! |
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A list of all planned FEFLOW
training courses given by DHI-WASY as well as registration information can be
found on http://feflow.info/training.html. Upcoming training courses
include:
Some of the upcoming
conferences with participation of DHI-WASY are:
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The latest patch for FEFLOW 6.0
is FEFLOW 6.007 that can be downloaded from http://feflow.info/download.html. |
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