What is it about?
Testing a non-commercial physically based code (SHETRAN) for modelling a geologically complex drainage catchment and comparing the modelling results to those obtained with a similar, very expensive, commercial code.
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Why is it important?
This article demonstrates that performance of this non-commercial code is very much comparable to the performance of a commercial (very expensive) similar code. This is encouraging since this code could be used for free in projects where physics of water movement has to prevail.
Perspectives
I hope this article illustrate to modellers that working with this non-commercial coed is not that difficult and that its performance is as acceptable as the one of a very expensive commercial code. This would imply a significant saving not only in monetary terms but also would encourage the use of physically base codes in situations when physics have to prevail on top of quickness offered by modern machine learning (correlation) methods.
Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez
Universidad de Cuenca
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This page is a summary of: Assessing the Performance of SHETRAN Simulating a Geologically Complex Catchment, Water, October 2022, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/w14203334.
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