CECAD

CECAD-FSF software was initiated based on a fully three dimensional hydrodynamic model. That model was developed as a research program in 1994 and was established based on the direct one-stage scheme for solving the fully three dimensional governing equations of free surface flows. The mentioned program was able to predict current flow and horizontal and vertical eddies in rivers, estuaries, harbors and coastal waters. It was compared against several laboratory measurement and field data and was found to be very accurate. The used numerical scheme was a second order accurate scheme in both space and time.

The initial program was written for PC's and was executable under DOS environments. CECAD-FF v1.0 was the developed version of that program which could be executed under Windows 3+ environment. The first version of CECAD-FF was developed in 1996 for modeling two dimensional depth-averaged free-surface flows.

This version of CECAD-FSF is more powerful and can simulate one- and two-dimensional flow and wave as will be described later.