COAST.ND.EDU

We are the founding co-developers, with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin, of the widely used ADCIRC finite element based shallow water equation code. ADCIRC has evolved into a community based coastal hydrodynamics code with wide ranging applications within academia, government, and the private sector worldwide. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration all use ADCIRC in support of coastal water level and flooding analyses and forecasts. Notably ADCIRC was used to design the 15 billion dollar Hurricane & Storm Flood Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS) for New Orleans by the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). ADCIRC has been used by the USACE for the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study and is being used for the current study along the South Atlantic coast. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) applies ADCIRC to evaluate hurricane flood risk..

Primary location: Notre Dame United States