Hydroinformatics Modeling System

The Hydroinformatics Modeling System (hms) is a Java-based modeling framework developed by the Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Technische Universität Berlin, since 2004.
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hms is an object-oriented scientific prototyping framework with a flexible and extendible component-based design. Information is stored in layers, whereby each layer represents a different physical process or geospatial data.

The numerics of hms are based on a cell-centered finite volume method. A robust high-order HLLC Riemann solver based scheme is used to solve the governing physical equations (Hou et al. 2013 [5]), whereby the main focus is on the depth-averaged shallow water flow and transport (dissolved components, sediments) equations.

[16]Focus on numerical components:

Dr.-Ing. Franz Simons: A robust high-resolution hydrodynamic numerical model for surface water flow and transport processes within a flexible software framework [17]

Focus on software-technical components:

Dr.-Ing. Tobias Busse: HMS - A Component-Based Hydroinformatics Modelling System for Flexible Model Coupling and Integration [18]