Flow-Py v1.0: a customizable, open-source simulation tool to estimate runout and intensity of gravitational mass flows

D'Amboise, Christopher J. L.; Neuhauser, Michael; Teich, Michaela; Huber, Andreas; Kofler, Andreas; Perzl, Frank; Fromm, Reinhard; Kleemayr, Karl; Fischer, Jan-Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2423-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2423-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2423-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Model description paper

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21 Mar 2022

Model description paper |

| 21 Mar 2022

Flow-Py v1.0: a customizable, open-source simulation tool to estimate runout and intensity of gravitational mass flows

Christopher J. L. D'Amboise, Michael Neuhauser, Michaela Teich, Andreas Huber, Andreas Kofler, Frank Perzl, Reinhard Fromm, Karl Kleemayr, and Jan-Thomas Fischer

Data sets

Flow_py_inputs_results: First releases Christopher J. L. D'Amboise, Michael Neuhauser, Michaela Teich, and Jan-Thomas Fischer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5154787

Model code and software

Flow-Py: routing and stopping of gravitational mass flows Michael Neuhauser, Christopher D'Amboise, Michaela Teich, Andreas Kofler, Andreas Huber, Reinhard Fromm, and Jan Thomas Fischer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5027275

Short summary

The term gravitational mass flow (GMF) covers various natural hazard processes such as snow avalanches, rockfall, landslides, and debris flows. Here we present the open-source GMF simulation tool Flow-Py. The model equations are based on simple geometrical relations in three-dimensional terrain. We show that Flow-Py is an educational, innovative GMF simulation tool with three computational experiments: 1. validation of implementation, 2. performance, and 3. expandability.