AQUASIM

AQUASIM: Simulation Software for Aquatic Systems

AQUASIM is a simulation software for aquatic systems like lakes and rivers. It allows users to model water flow, transport of substances, and biological processes to study the effects of environmental changes and pollution.

What is AQUASIM?

AQUASIM is simulation and modeling software designed specifically for aquatic systems like lakes, rivers, wetlands, and coastal waters. It enables users to construct complex models that integrate hydrodynamics, transport of substances, and biological, chemical, and sediment processes.

Key features of AQUASIM include:

• Graphical user interface for model construction and visualization
• Flexible compartment modeling approach
• Process library with standard ecological interactions and transformations
• Automatic generation of differential equations
• Simulation of time-variable flows and substance inputs
• Sensitivity analysis tools
• Model calibration through parameter estimation

AQUASIM facilitates understanding of aquatic system behavior under changing environmental conditions like weather patterns, pollution, eutrophication, or restoration measures. Typical applications include evaluating management strategies, forecasting effects of climate change, estimating carrying capacity, and performing risk assessments of contamination events. Its comprehensive process representations make AQUASIM well-suited for research and teaching in the environmental sciences.

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