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TELEMAC is a modelling system for free surface waters. It has used an

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TELEMAC was developed by EDF-LNHE, Paris and is now under the directorship
of a consortium of organisations including EDF-LNHE and HR Wallingford. A kernel
of developers from these organisations carries out the software developments
together with contributions from many universities and other organisations.

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TELEMAC
TELEMAC is available on a free open source
basis under a combination of GPL and LGPL
public licenses. Modules are available for free
download from www.opentelemac.org, hosted
by HR Wallingford. The entire source code
is managed and controlled at HR Wallingford
through the subversion repository accessible
from svn.opentelemac.org/svn/opentelemac.
Modules can be run in scalar mode and in
parallel mode. Recent testing using the Hector
massively parallel computer installation at the
UK Science and Technologies Facilities Council
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could be run on thousands of processors,
and would deliver scalable speed increases
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Training
Introductory training and expert tuition are
available from HR Wallingford. We have over 18
years experience in the use of TELEMAC and
we are an ongoing developer of the system.

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suited for modelling of large areas of sea and for tidal in navigation studies, sediment
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more suitable to the inundation of large areas of initially > Evaluation of local impact of
coastal/waterfront developments
dry land, and for situations where hydraulic jumps and
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SISYPHE is the sediment transport module
for the TELEMAC system. It solves the
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with mixtures of sediment types. SISYPHE
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and TELEMAC-3D, while including inputs
from the wave model, TOMAWAC, to enable
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in the DELFT3D modelling suite. It has
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representations of a large number of water
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parameters and processes. This module
is available to purchase separately.
TOMAWAC
TOMAWAC is a third generation wave model.
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of waves due to winds or offshore climates
and propagation into shallow water. It
includes the processes of refraction due
to the seabed and ambient currents, wave
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due to bottom friction and white capping,
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represent wave-driven longshore currents.
ARTEMIS
ARTEMIS is a model for harbour
disturbance assessment that solves the
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resolving the anticipated wave length.
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