FINEL

FINEL (FINite ELements) is a hydrodynamic flow model which can operate in 1D, 2DH, 2DV and 3D mode. FINEL has morphological modules to compute sediment transport and morphological seabed development, both for sand and silt. FINEL is (online) coupled to SWAN to take the interaction between waves, currents, water levels and varying bed levels into account. FINEL is based on the finite element approach and applies a flexible mesh with triangles. This offers almost unlimited flexibility in grid generation. Special features, like harbour moles, or a complicated coastline can be accurately incorporated in the grid. FINEL is highly parallelised for efficient fast calculations on our in-house computational HPC cluster.

FINEL can deal with ocean, tidal, river, wind driven, wave driven and salinity driven flows as well as cool water discharges and sediment plume dispersion for environmental impact assessment. FINEL has dedicated sand, silt and coupled sand-silt interaction modules to handle morphology. Several state of the art sediment transport formula are available. FINEL can simulate morphological development accurately for periods up to 100 year!

For more than 30 years now FINEL has been applied successfully for coastal, harbour and river engineering projects all over the globe.

Some example publications with FINEL are:

• Dam, G., Van der Wegen, M., Labeur, R.J. and Roelvink, D., 2016, Modeling centuries of estuarine morphodynamics in the Western Scheldt estuary. AGU Journal.
• Poortman, S.E., Van den Boomgaard, M.J.G., and Bliek, A.J., 2016, Modelling for Gold. PIANC, COPEDEC IX, 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Dam, G., Van der Wegen, M., Roelvink, D., Labeur, R.J., and Bliek, A.J., 2015, Simulation of long-term morphodynamics of the Western Scheldt. E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, 28 June – 3 July, 2015, The Hague, the Netherlands.
• Kroon, A. and Loman, G., 2015, Application of FINEL2D model in hydro-morphological support of design & build of "Maasvlakte 2". E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, 28 June – 3 July, 2015, The Hague, the Netherlands.
• Poortman, S.E., Talstra, H. and Bliek, A.J., 2015, Density effects in the Braakmanhaven. E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, 28 June – 3 July, 2015, The Hague, the Netherlands.
• Dam, G. and Bliek, A.J., 2013, Using a sand-mud model to hindcast the morphology near Waarde. Maritime Engineering 166, Issue 2, Pages 63 -75.
• Labeur, R.J., 2009, Finite element modelling of transport and non-hydrostatic flow in environmental fluid mechanics. Ph.D. Thesis, Delft University of Technology, Delft.
• Dam, G., Bliek, A.J. and Nederbragt, G.J., 2009, High resolution long term morphological model of the northern part of the Holland Coast and Texel Inlet. Proceedings of the 6th River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics conference, Santa Fe, Argentina.
• Dam, G., Bliek, A.J., Labeur, R.J., Ides, S. and Plancke, Y., 2007, Long term process based morphological model of the Western Scheldt Estuary. Proceedings of the 5th River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics conference, Enschede, the Netherlands, p1077-1084.
• Van Prooijen, A., Van Kessel, T. and Van Ledden, T., 2007, Modelling of fine sediment in a sandy environment – the coastal zone of the Netherlands. 32nd Congress of IAHR, The International Association of Hydraulic Engineering & Research, Harmonizing the demands of art and nature in hydraulics, July 1-6, Venice, Italy.
• Dam, G., Bliek, A.J. and Bruens, A.W., 2005, Band width analysis morphological predictions Haringvliet Estuary. Proceedings of the 4th River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics conference, Illinois, USA, p171-179.