SIC^2: Simulation and Integration of Control for Canals

Menu Options > Options

David Dorchies — 2012-06-25T19:42:36Z

General

Language : The interface is translated in L'interface in French, English and Spanish. Portions of the software may not yet fully translated into English and Spanish, they then appear in French.

Automatic backup

The button "Activated" can enable or disable the automatic backup of the file being input.

Retrieve an automatic backup

After a software crash, EdiSic proposes to recover the last backup file automatically. If the user agrees to open the recovered file, the software creates a subdirectory 'Sauv' in the file location and copy both file versions with the following names:

FileName_Récupéré.xml: copy of the file recorded by the automatic backup and that has been recovered.
FileName_Original.xml: copy the original file and that is the last recording made voluntarily by the user.

Display

"High quality graphics mode": Improves the display of the network on the screen. Disable this option if the display of the network is too slow or choppy.
"Icon for parametrized variables": Enables the display of the button "variable set" on the fields where this option is available.

Limiting the number of points in a profile for recording

When importing or entering profiles with more points than the limit set here, the software will automatically remove the necessary number of points by minimizing the information loss (minimizing height between the point and removed the segment connecting the previous paragraph with the following point). When saving the corresponding file, the removed points will be indicated in a trace window.

"Activated": to control the registration of a geometry that the number of points of cross sections does not exceed the number defined below.
"Max number of points": The default limit is 24 points and corresponds to the current limit of the mesh Talweg. Profile greater than 24 points will cause an error in the meshing program (Talweg).

Link version of DDE Matlab or Scilab

Tle Matlab and/or Scilab DDE links are not compatible with each other, and use dll libraries that have the same names but are not compatible. This is why we offer various versions of Fluvia and Sirene generated with various versions of the DDE link for Matlab or Scilab. You must choose the one that suits you, depending on the version that is installed on your computer. If you have multiple versions installed, it will probably even be necessary to disable versions you do not want to use, to avoid conflicts. It is not necessary to uninstall these versions, a simple temporary renaming of the directory where is located this version or these versions will be sufficient.

The protection key

David Dorchies — 2012-06-25T19:29:45Z

The parameters of the protection key are editable in the "Protection key" window (Options menu> protection key).

Mode without dongle, no normal use of EdiSIC in geometry mode (warning messages) or Talweg possible. But the rest of the application is usable.

When using the software, if the key becomes unavailable, the software will automatically switch without key.

If the key is available again, it will then go recheck in this interface the type of key used.

The main window of EdiSIC

David Dorchies — 2012-06-25T19:25:33Z

The main screen shows the network in two ways :

on the left with a tree-like representation
on the major part of the right with a network graph

Selections can be made on either of two representations for most features.

Tree view part

Search, extend and retract

The "Search" allows you to search based on part of the name of an object, or the exact or approximated abscissa of it.

Button to the left of the title bar of the tree allows extend and retract the various levels of the network.

Legend of the tree view

Icon	Name	Description
	Branche	Continuous series of reaches without diffluence or confluence
	Reach	Continuous portion of the stream between two nodes
	Node	Point of reach demarcation and of offtakes integration
	Section	Description of a transverse profile
	Singular Section	Description of a transverse profile with possibility to add devices (cross structure)

Network graph part

Menus and toolbars

All modes are accompanied by three toolbars that combine features found in the menus of the same name:

File

New document
Open an existing document
Open Windows (r) explorer in current directory
Save the document
Save the document in an other file

Tools

The available tools vary depending on the mode (geometry, hydraulic, result). They will be described in the corresponding parts of the documentation.

Display

Cancel previous operation
Restore the canceled operation
Select all objects in the network
Zoom out
Set the zoom
Zoom in
Adjust the zoom to the network (Network full page)

Bottom of the window

This part is used to display the current file with possibility of opening a new file, display the file in the default XML editor or open explorer in the current folder.

This part is also used to display graphs of longitudinal profiles in the different modes.

The three modes: geometry, hydraulic and result

David Dorchies — 2012-06-24T14:12:54Z

The EdiSic interface operates in three successive modes:

Editing Geometry
Editing hydraulic data
Visualization of results

Navigation between these different modes is facilitated by the window "Project Explorer".

Editing Geometry

In this mode, the user can :

import a .TAL file of older versions of SIC,
modify a network
or enter a new network.

Entering the network allows to define:

The reaches and their connecting nodes
The sections in the reaches
Among these sections, the singular sections that will host the cross structures in the hydraulic mode
The profiles of all sections (With definitions of minor / medium and major beds)

Before moving to hydraulic mode, the application will propose:

to check the completeness and consistency of the network entered - and launch the mesh network (TALWEG).

Editing hydraulic data

EdiSic allows to enter several hydraulic scenarios for one geometry.

In this mode, the user will define the following data:

Features of the offtakes in the nodes (Devices, and boundary conditions)
Features of cross structures located on the singular sections.
Roughness coefficients (Manning) in the reaches for minor and medium beds
Infiltrations
Regulation Modules
Simulation parameters (including the definition of the results which should saved during the simulation for later viewing)

After verifying the completeness and consistency of data entered, the interface allows the launch of a hydraulic simulation in steady flow (FLUVIA).

If the simulation was successful, it is then possible to import water line obtained in steady flow in a new scenario to start a hydraulic unsteady flow simulation (SIRENE).

View results

As its name implies, this mode allows you to view the results generated by a hydraulic simulation in steady flow or unsteady flow. Results are represented as data tables and graphs.

The project concept and the XML data file

David Dorchies — 2012-06-18T15:06:17Z

An XML data file contains one project.

A project consists of:

A network also called geometry (Definition of nodes, reaches and sections)
One or more hydraulic scenarios (Definition of offtakes, cross structures, infiltration and Stricklers)
One or more regulation modules

Each hydraulic scenario may include:

One or more variants (Change management data from the data of the scenario)
A quality module

Each scenario, a variant of scenario or quality module of a scenario may include a simulation result.

Network Properties

The project name is defined in the "Network Name" field situed in the "Network Properties" window. You can add free descriptive text to archive information about this project.

We can define an homothety factor in Y and Z for cross profiles of a network. These homothety factors may also be defined reach by reach and section by section. This can be useful for recalibration of such networks.

A global space step can be defined here. It will be applied to all reaches of the network, except if this space step is redefined (different from 0) at the reach and/or section level.

This window also provides access to network statistics (number of nodes, sections and reaches) that check if it is within the operating limits of the SIC license. We advise to refer to the theorical manual to check the definition of these concepts which are different for each software.

Global geolocation settings can be set here. The units in decimal degrees or in metric units (UTM), as well as the angular reference for the geolocation of the cross sections (with the choices of Geographic North, the central line of the reach or the segment drawn within the reach).

Specifications of the different licenses of SIC software

David Dorchies, Pierre-Olivier Malaterre — 2012-01-03T15:57:18Z

There are several licenses for SIC software :

Professional version
Research and Educational version

The only technical difference between the Professional version and the Research and Educational version is the maximum size of the systems that can be modeled. Otherwise all options are available in both versions. The Professional version package also includes 3 day training for the user.

Since most of the calculation programs are in FORTRAN without automatic memory allocation there are still some limitations in the Professional version. But we can extend them as much as you want. We can model any system in the world, from the small scale model of the SupAgro engineering school in Montpellier, France, to the Amazone River in Brazil, Congo River or the Narmada canal in India. For your information the default limitations are:

Limitation on	Professional version	Research and Educational version
number of branches (in case you have confluences, diversions, loops) IBR	75	5
number of reaches (a reach is a portion of the canal or river between 2 offtakes, inflows or outflows) IB	350	20
number of data cross sections (cross sections where you describe the geometry of the sections) NSD	5000	200
number of calculation cross sections (cross sections where hydraulic values will be calculated ; they can be data sections you enter or additional automatically interpolated sections depending on the space step you specified for each reach) NSC	20000	250
number of singular sections (where there is one or several weir, gate, Gec Alsthom gate, pump, etc.) NSS	200	10
number of cross devices (weir, gate, Gec Alsthom gate, pump, etc.) NTO	500	10
number of regulation modules (an algorithm that can move one or several control variables using one or several measured values, in order to control one or several controlled variables) NBCM	100	20
number of control variables NBUM	100	50
number of controlled variables NBYM	100	50
number of measured variables NBZM	500	500
number sediment classes (for the sediment transport module) NCL/NCLG	6/11	6/11