Eco-Hydrological Simulation Environment (ECHSE)
Basic facts
The ECHSE is a modeling framework aimed at facilitating the rapid development of hydrological model engines. It is applicable, for example, to dynamic simulation problems arising in rainfall-runoff or water quality modeling.
In ECHSE-based models, the system of interest is modeled as a collection of interacting objects (of one ore more classes). The models are primarily applicable to situations where the objects interact in a feed-forward manner (one-way interactions). Feedbacks (two-way interactions) are supported but numerical accuracy is currently limited to 1st order. Thus, the framework is NOT suited, for example, to solve partial differential equations (groundwater flow, St. Venant equations, etc.).
The framework is implemented in C++ and supports shared memory parallel computing. It can be run on different platforms, namely recent versions of Linux and Windows.
More information
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License issues
The ECHSE software has been developed at the University of Potsdam (Germany) with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It is made available through this site to interested users and for collaborative development under the MIT license (see link in left panel).