InfoWorks ICM Key Concepts

The system provides a master database for storing model and hydraulic data, with all the tools necessary to create, edit and manage that data. When the model has been created, InfoWorks ICM allows you to simulate the behaviour of the catchment under a range of conditions.

In particular, InfoWorks ICM allows you to perform the following tasks:

• Manage and maintain network models over a long time period rather than just for a particular modelling exercise.
• Share model data among a workgroup of users with audit trails and security mechanisms designed with the modelling task in mind.
• Import model data from other systems.
• View a geographical representation of the network on screen, with the network displayed over the top of a detailed local map, in 2D and 3D, with comprehensive facilities to customise the network appearance.
• Enter rainfall and other time-series or event data - both recorded and using an extensive library of synthetic rainfall models from around the world.
• Perform hydraulic simulations to model the effects of a particular linked series of events.
• Analyse the results using a wide variety of graphical, textual and statistical outputs.

InfoWorks ICM allows you to create and maintain many different models, so that both high-level and detailed reports can be generated.

InfoWorks ICM has a large number of features which take advantage of the increased power of PCs, our ongoing commitment to modelling excellence and experience gathered over InfoWorks' twenty-plus year history:

Modelling features include:

• River reaches with easy connection to 1D or 2D floodplains
• Flexible approach to bridge modelling
• Flood mapping
• Various runoff methods

Technology features include:

• Scenario Manager
  • Allows the editing of multiple 'what if' scenarios in parallel with the ability to easily create and delete scenarios, switch between scenarios, change data in one scenario or the base model and compare scenarios.
  • Enables efficient examination of alternative modelling scenarios.
  • User selects which scenarios to analyse, the software automatically runs simulations for all the different scenarios.
  • Real time control (RTC) is fully integrated with this scenario management mechanism, allowing easier modelling of different RTC scenarios.
• Simulation Server
  • Simulations can be run:
    • on standalone workstations
    • within a Workgroup sharing computer resources
    • within an Enterprise System with dedicated servers and a central store
  • Users are able to monitor and control the progress of selected simulations
  • It is possible to re-schedule simulation jobs in the queue and change their priority.

    Note: This mechanism is more robust when long simulations are run overnight when the computer network is briefly unavailable for maintenance etc. It is also more suited to Citrix and similar environments

• Multi-core processors
  • The 1D and 2D engines exploit multi-core and multi-processor systems
• GPU (Parallel) 2D Engine

  • Parallel version of the 2D engine, which runs on special NVIDIA computing processors based on graphics card technology, providing the potential for a significant improvement in speed.

    

    Note

    When using a GPU card for carrying out 2D calculations, it is recommended that the latest available NVIDIA driver for the GPU card is installed.