Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-781-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-781-2024
Model description paper
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30 Jan 2024
Model description paper |  | 30 Jan 2024

MinVoellmy v1: a lightweight model for simulating rapid mass movements based on a modified Voellmy rheology

Stefan Hergarten

Model code and software

MinVoellmy v1: a lightweight model for simulating rapid mass movements Stefan Hergarten https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10304665

MinVoellmy Stefan Hergarten http://hergarten.at/minvoellmy

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Short summary
The Voellmy rheology has been widely used for simulating snow and rock avalanches. Recently, a modified version of this rheology was proposed, which turned out to be able to predict the observed long runout of large rock avalanches theoretically. The software MinVoellmy presented here is the first numerical implementation of the modified rheology. It consists of MATLAB and Python classes, where simplicity and parsimony were the design goals.