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Delft Software Australia organizes a two day training course on flood and overland flow modelling using 1D and 2D models on May 17 and 18, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. The course will provide an overview of 1D and 2D flood and overland flow modelling.
More information on this course can be downloaded here.

On Wednesday, 14 March 2012, Deltares and HR Wallingford signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which enables both parties to collaborate in the development of Delft3D WAQ.

Frank Hoozemans (Director Deltares Software Centre) and Ian Towned (Research Director HR Wallingford) signing the MoU.

In this MoU HR Wallingford and Deltares have agreed on a set of commitments, which provides a good basis for both parties to:

• - sharing expertise on far and mid-field water and sediment quality
• - making Delft3D WAQ available in open source under GPL early next year
• - developing the open source community.

This is part of the Deltares open software policy: “We dare to share: all research expertise is available to everyone”. It makes it possible to easily collaborate and have access to the latest scientific developments.

For more information, please contact Frank Hoozemans.

Season's greetings to all.

After the great success of the first online seminar (Webinar) on 'Long-term Morphological Modelling', Deltares is proud to announce that Dirk-Jan Walstra again will take the honours in presenting the Webinar on Wednesday 14 December 2011 (17:00 CET) entitled:

How to perform realistic morphodynamic simulations with acceptable run-times?

Overview of input reduction techniques to derive representative wave and/or tide boundary conditions

About registration

Please register now. Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at the Delft3D Open Source website.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Upcoming Webinars

In the Webinar section of the Delft3D Open Source website, all the footage of previous Webinars and information of upcoming Webinars will be provided. It is our intention to organize Webinars every second Wednesday of the month, giving you the opportunity to learn and interact on a variety of topics in the operating field of hydrodynamics, waves, coastal morphology, river morphology and sediments. Feel free to share your topic of interest and your opinion, with us and other experts in one of the discussion forums on the website. Check the website regularly for the most up to date information.

The Delft Software Days 2011, which took place from Monday 24 October to Friday 4 November, attracted over 250 participants from 34 countries. This was the first time that Delft3D, Delft-FEWS, OpenDA, OpenEarthTools, SWAN and XBEACH users and developers met each other in Delft. It was a pleasure to organise these extensive twelve-day courses, workshops and user meetings programme, in close collaboration with the Delft University of Technology and UNESCO-IHE. We received very enthusiastic feedback about this major joint event for software products, tools and data & knowledge management systems.

International Delft3D Users Meeting 2011

Once again, the International Delft3D Users Meeting during the Delft Software Days 2011 attracted great interest. This year’s attendees had the opportunity to listen to guest speakers about “Open source: a tremendous benefit to scientists and engineers”. It also provided an opportunity to learn from the experiences of other Delft3D modellers who presented case studies and to network with fellow modellers. Furthermore, it was a great opportunity for users to provide feedback and suggestions on how they believe the Delft3D and related software should be developed. If you would like to suggest more ideas, please visit the Discussion Groups on the Delft3D open source community portal.

Presentations available for download

Please find all available presentations via our Delft Software Days 2011 website.

Delft Software Days 2012

The next Delft Software Days will take place from 19 to 30 November 2012, in conjunction with the FLOODrisk 2012 conference to be held in Rotterdam from 20 to 22 November. More information on the Delft Software Days 2012 can be found at http://www.delftsoftwaredays.nl/ soon.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Delft Software Days 2012!

Delft Software Australia celebrates 10 years as an independent environmental and hydraulic software sales and support organisation agent for Deltares of the Netherlands, which is a recognised world leader in consulting, modelling and water related issues.
To celebrate the 10th birthday the team at Delft Software Australia (DSA) has worked tirelessly to bring a new website, with improved navigation and easy to find information and contacts. To view the new website please click here.

During the Delft Software Days 2011, Deltares offers the new 2-day Delft3D Advanced Courses, a going in-depth hands-on training, in the weekend prior to the Delft3D Users Meeting 2011.

The Delft3D Advanced Courses provide training in the latest modelling techniques and data-analysis tools for Delft3D users with basic experiences in applying Delft3D. The courses are going in-depth into a number of topics based on an A la Carte Programme.
The Delft3D Advanced Courses have a typical hands-on character. In this way the courses can be made fit-for-purpose and focus on existing model applications of the participants. In other words: Bring your own project and get on-the-job training for free! More information about the Delft3D Advanced Courses.

An item high on Deltares’ agenda is the dissemination of knowledge for use in the management of river basins and coasts. Software is one of the means by which Deltares achieves this. Deltares has over twenty years’ experience in developing scientific software. The software covers a broad range of expertise: hydrology, hydraulics, morphology and geotechnics. This year Deltares has embarked on a new strategy: open software.

For more information, please download the article ' Approaching software with an open mind' .

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of the Thai government discussing Bangkok flood defense strategies with Mr. Adri Verwey, Senior Specialist at Deltares

The persistent monsoon rains have culminated in major flooding in Thailand in recent weeks. The waters are expected to peak in Bangkok this weekend. Last week, the Dutch embassy in Bangkok offered to place knowledge and expertise at the disposal of the Thai government.
Since last Tuesday, a representative from Deltares has been working in the crisis centre in Bangkok, advising the Thai government with the programme SOBEK about the measures that are still needed to manage the flooding and to limit the damage where possible. The Dutch expert can draw on years of experience in countries that include Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand.

The Delft Software Days 2011 is being organized by Deltares in close collaboration with the Delft University of Technology and UNESCO-IHE. This event provides a venue for all Delft3D, Delft-FEWS, OpenDA, OpenEarthTools, SWAN and XBEACH users and developers worldwide, to present new scientific insights in modelling, recent advances in data and knowledge management and the latest open software developments.

It offers an extensive twelve-day course, workshops and user meetings programme from 24 October to 4 November 2011 at Deltares (Rotterdamseweg 185, Delft), The Netherlands.

The current overall programme includes:

• Delft3D Users Meeting
• Delft3D Basic and Advanced Course
• Delft3D Open Source Workshops
• Delft-FEWS Users Meeting
• Delft-FEWS Basic and Advanced Courses
• Delft Dashboard Workshop
• OpenEarth Workshop
• OpenDA Basic Course
• SWAN Advanced Course
• XBEACH Basic / Advanced Course.

You can register by completing the registration form on our Delft Software Days 2011 Website.

We are pleased to announce the Delft3D release 4.00 for Windows.
This fourth version of the software is the first one based on the Delft3D open sourcecode and is now available to all our clients worldwide as part of our new Delft3D Service Packages.

For questions related to release 4.00 please contact our support desk .

Several Delft3D Service Packages, including fully validated high quality Delft3D distributions, are available to suit your specific needs!

For consultancy firms, governmental organizations and research institutes worldwide we have designed our Basic Service Packages, Advance Service Packages, Professional Service Package, Premium Service Package and Enterprise Service Package.
For universities and schools, we offer our Education Service Package.
Code developers are supported with our Developer Service Package.

Designed with you in mind, they offer you your requested level of convenience.

Deltares announces the worldwide release of the Delft3D open source community website ( http://oss.delft3d.nl).

We are pleased to invite you to join our community website , where you can download source code, participate in forum discussions and blogs.

Discussion forum and blogs
Several groups have been launched to provide platforms for discussions and to exchange information, ideas and opportunities.

The following groups are now active:

- Hydrodynamics - Coasts
- Hydrodynamics - Rivers
- Waves
- Coastal Morphology
- River Morphology
- Cohesive sediments
- Pre- and post-processing tools
- General

Downloading source code
After registration at the community website, you have access to the subversion repository in which we maintain the source code. This gives you access to daily updates of the source code, if you wish. See download for more information about downloading the source code via subversion.

Delft3D group on LinkedIn
To facilitate connecting to Delft3D users and developers worldwide, we would like to invite you to join the Delft3D open source group on LinkedIn as well.

This professional network is growing rapidly!

Tsunami propagation simulated for 12 hours; starting from 11 March 2001 05.46 UTC, i.e. when the earthquake occured.
The simulation is based on preliminary estimates of the earthquake parameters and tsunami source.

conference room

Mr. Chris Catalano, Australian Manager - Delft Software Australia, gave an impressive overview of the recent Delft3D and SOBEK applications from Downunder on November 23, 2009. A 150 people attended his presentation. Chris’s talk highlighted several recent flooding and coastal related projects using the software and discussed the importance of understanding the effects of climate change and how Delft3D and SOBEK are proving to be important tools to assist Australians to prepare for the future.

Mrs. Hendarti As, Director of PT-MLD, Indonesia, and Mr. Frank Hoozemans, Director of Deltares Software Centre | Delft Hydraulics, signed the software agency agreement.

“I am delighted to accept the software agency agreement on behalf of PT-MLD, to allow us to continue expanding the SOBEK, RIBASIM, HYMOS and Delft3D market in Indonesia, and to continue building on our already strong relationship with Deltares | Delft Hydraulics”  Mrs. Hendarti said at the signing ceremony.

Mrs. Hendarti, siging the agreement