INTERNATIONAL RIVER INTERFACE COOPERATIVE (IRIC) - A MULTITASKING SOFTWARE FOR HYDRODYNAMIC AND MORPHODYNAMICAL PROCESSES IN RIVERS: A REVIEW.

Código

XXV-SBRH0776

Autores

Alessandro Gustavo Franck, ITZAYANA GONZÁLEZ AVILA, Marina Refatti Fagundes, Masato Kobiyama, Fabiane Cazulo Juchen, Lara Cruz Nonnemacher

Tema

STE18 - Modelagem Numérica e Física de Escoamentos

Resumo

Rivers are sources of one of the natural resources indispensables to living beings: water. Studies about that topic are relevant for water resource management, disaster management, etc. River hydraulics modeling become essential tools for the proper management of these water resources. One recent tool, iRIC and its solvers, are able to represent a large range of rivers phenomena and their complexity. The objective of this work was to review information about research carried out with the iRIC software. Currently, iRIC has 22 solvers that are applicable to the most diverse problems related to rivers. To better understand the range and the spatial distribution of publications with iRIC, a systematic review of the bibliography was performed. In this search, a total of 104 publications were found. The solvers and the publications were separated in 3 topics: (i) sediment related; (ii) water related; and (iii) biology related. The spatial distribution and the topic distribution of the studies were assessed. Most publications originated in the United States and Japan, where the software's creators reside. Additionally, publications were found in 21 other countries, as well as publications that applied solvers in physical laboratory models or in hypothetical areas. The separation of articles into topics showed a balance between articles related to water and sediments, and a surprising number of publications related to biology. Publications with iRIC had a significant increase after 2016, the year in which the article presenting the tool and its solvers to the international community was published.