This month in AvaFrame - November 2020 edition
+November 29, 2020
+ + +Welcome to our next monthly update.
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This month started with the exciting (at least for us :-) ) release of +version 0.1. Head over to our github repository +and our documentation to learn more about +it (or read our last post).
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With this release (and the rest of the month as well) we improved our +documentation quite a lot. New getting started and installation pages +should make it possible for you to get started (ha, who would have +guessed..) with AvaFrame. To make it more readable we reordered the modules +documentation. Just recently we started adding the API documentation with all +our functions as well (for those interested: this is achieved with sphinx +autodoc/autosummary and docstrings). To acknowledge the (very important) data +providers, a data sources page was added, with sources and references to data +we use in our framework.
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Our existing test cases received more features, now we include multiple +release areas and multiple scenarios per avalanche. Also included are scenarios +with resistance areas for our main dense flow avalanche kernel.
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The first data for real avalanche test cases has made it to the +repository. So far we concentrated on idealised cases, but we now include 6 +real world avalanches. For now release areas and DEMs are available. Soon these +cases will also end up in our test scripts.
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New functions for probability / parameter range simulations are available for +the dense flow kernel com1DFA. Testing this with an applied example is underway at +the moment.
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We started working on the implementation of our dense flow kernel com1DFA in +python. This means digging deep into the programming and theory of our C++ reference +code. The base structure is already there, current developments concentrate on the +implementation of 2D SPH for depth integrated equations on a surface living in +3D and time discretizations, among others. Head over to our +github issues to get an idea about +the issues (..ha..) at hand.
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And finally: the second steering committee meeting took place. Which reminds +me, I need to add a page about AvaFrame’s organisational structure… So watch +this space…
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On to the next month!
+Felix
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