HydroWeb - Hints/Assessments
General Remarks - Result Analysis
HydroWeb: seven (7) days remaining!
All teams are busy with HydroWeb mainly finalizing the reports of WP1 and
the modelling tasks of WP2.
Most teams in the past used week 1 to set-up the team collaboration, week 2
for WP1 (including reporting), week 3 for WP2 (including reporting) and week 4 for WP3 and the finalization
of the reports.
Please take care about the time schedule!
Work package 1 is the warm-up of the modelling, the real challenges are work package 2 and later 3.
The modelling tasks and the reporting in HydroWeb should be done by collaboration - within the teams, among the teams and
with the online help desk, called supervisor.
The success within the HydroWeb course is based on experiences in Web-based collaborative Engineering,
using shared reports (incl. shared editing), shared models (incl. shared model files and RDP platform)
and shared collaboration (incl. conf. with shared screens etc.).
Please try to gain experiences in this topics by try and error methods, as more you are collaborating
as more you will profit from this experiment. The river modelling part is only the toy in this game,
the learning effects are side effects, there is no problem, if your river model is not perfect or
complete in comparison to the exercise description.
Please remind: HydroWeb is on Web based Collaborative Engineering. Please take care on the Web reports (no Word/Office files!!). The team rules pages might be also updated with more details about coordination, communication, file structure etc. for some teams.
Postprocessing: Data, Tables and Diagrams
Meanwhile you all gain first experiences to run Mike11 in a basic mode:
Maybe some of you had a look in the handbooks and tutorials, or just checked the different options in Mike11 and MikeView for specific analysis, visualisation options. There are a lot of "nice" features, maybe some of them are useful for you.
Additional Output
Default results data in Mike11 are water level and discharge at the
related grid points. You can add additional output value:
Please have a look in the HD Parameters file, using sub-form "Add. Output".
You can choose a lot of additional output parameters, maybe some
of them are useful for analysis WP2 and WP3 simulation :-) Just click
on the data you would like to get as additional output. Mike11 will
generate a 2nd result file with these values. You can use MikeView
to have a look on them.
Water Level and Water Depth
Mike11 is calculating the water level. For some sub-tasks it might
be helpful to have also water depth (water level minus bed/bottom level (lowest point in cross section)).
MikeView is supporting this: see MikeViewUserGuide 2011 page 61.
Please open your result file. Choose the menu Tools and the first
item Compute-> and then Depth. Now you have besides water level and
discharge a 3rd variable / data type to analyse and visualisation.
Numbers
Graphics is nice but physics is wrong I ;-)
MikeView is generating a lot of nice graphs and diagrams.
However, sometimes it is helpful to check numbers e.g.
for the navigation task at VIDAA-MAG 5660. Besides
the longitudal profile you can use the "TS in Grid Points"
plot to select the data type (e.g. water level or depth)
and then using the "List" button. The list of selected time series
is also listing min and max values for the grid points.
Show values will give you all values for the selected locations for
all time steps in the result file.
Graphs
Graphics is nice but physics is wrong II ;-)
MikeView is using default visualization settings.
You can change them to present your results in a specific
way. Please click with the right mouse button in the graph
and choose the "Option" item. I hope you will find
some suitable visualization types for your sub-tasks results.