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On Thursday a Colonel US Army made a presentation to part NYC ASCE ! He said how us engineers might help . Update - USACE Role in Hurricane Response FEMA assigns USACE missions to include: debris management, commodities distribution, temporary housing, temporary roofing, emergency power, infrastructure ...

Our thoughts and prayers with Floridians. Thanks Len for reminding engineers how the power and wrath of Nature – can turn things upside down tossing them like toys – however robust they seem to be. Huge tasks ahead – from caring of the affected and victims – to cleaning up and rebuilding. Just within ...

I have marine diving background and around the water all my life with the exception of Desert time. As the civil engineering community, what can we do? Suggest get out of the way --- ! The storm is going to and has rendered Hugh damage to structures, roads and ports. The Nation might offer that we are ...

Ah! There are more to what are known about the model validation issues – and your intricate involvement in the processes. Thanks for enlightening and for your kind comments. Apart from adding a short portion of my research, as part of my discussion on your 2008 paper: Management of Fluid Mud in ...

Dilip: Your comments are, as always, well-expressed and welcome. I particularly enjoyed reading your cited 2016 essay, Water Modeling and reference to the AIAA V&V Guide. MOP 156's usage is consistent with the AIAA V&V Guide definitions. Of course, there's a backstory. The AIAA Guide cites as its ...

Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Chad. Your approach is consistent with some others in modeling and Sam Wang's committee-written book, Verification and Validation of 3D Free-Surface Flow Models. I served on the committee (but not authorship of the book) and thought the other members had been convinced ...