The Ports and Maritime
Organization, known as reference
authority for sea and coastal affairs, decided to develop Persian Model for
Ocean Dynamics (PMODynamics) software by the help of professional groups of
interior professors with the aim of removing marine engineers,
researchers and scientists dependencies
from similar foreign software, and monitoring and studying of country’s coastlines, sea states
and parameters by Iranian numerical model,
as well.
The development of this software
has begun since 2006, and its first version had officially unveiled and
introduced to the marine engineering society, as one of the achievements of the
country in marine field, by that time Minister of Transport and Transportation in
the fringe opening of the ICOPMAS 2010 International Conference.
This software has a wide variety of applications
in the offshore/ocean engineering
and coastal engineering issues, including:
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Simulation of tidal currents, wind-driven
currents and Coriolis effect,
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Modelling of wave induced current, wave
generation and transition,
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Coastal
sediment processes and morphological
modeling,
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Tidal analysis and extracting of tide constituents.
Based
on feedback received from users, the PMO decided to upgrade the model by
rewriting its user interface and engine codes and adding features to the numerical
model, as well, which resulted in the development of the second version of the
software.
PMODyanmicsII
main innovation is the implementation of pluggable modules, which allowing the
program to upgrade independently via extending the plug-ins and rewriting the
previous plug-ins by third-parties, without changing the base code. Also,
second version of the software has user-friendly design, while at the same time
can meet the need of users, it is simple and understandable for all users to
achieve their intended purpose with the utmost convenience and least time.
PMODynamicsII package
contains all necessary tools,
such as files Analyzer and Manager, Interpolating and Units Converter plugins, which make it as a self-contained system and independent from
other software applications. However, the Converter plugin allows users to
convert files provided by the DHI MIKE21 sea engineering software and the WRF
Meteorological model into PMODynamicsII formats. In addition, users easily are
able to convert PMODynamics files from first version to second version.
The mentioned capabilities in the current version of
PMODyanmics have made it one of the most advanced software for the
two-dimensional modeling of hydrodynamics, waves and sediment dynamics, and a
special tidal analysis tools that can be used in important and commercial
projects.
Interested in receiving of the second version of PMODynamics software
and obtaining more information about its features visit:
https://pmodynamics.pmo.ir/fa/pmoddl/dl/pmodiidl