Multi-resolution Models: Recent Progress in Coupling 3D Geometry to Environmental Numerical Simulation

Abstract

In this paper, we present recent results on coupling geographic, infrastructure, and building models to multi-resolution numerical simulations. In order to achieve this, a parallel data access framework with interfaces to all parts of the simulation pipeline such as pre-processing, numerical simulation, and post-processing has been developed. The applicability of the approach presented in this work is shown by simulating urban flooding including surface flow of a city, the pipe network interaction, and its consequences to individual buildings. While the real life city model including the drainage system has been provided by the authorities of the city of Munich and comprises an area of about 2 by 2 km with detailed topography and a complete set of approximately 3,000 buildings modelled on LOD 1 of CityGML, IFC-models are the initial starting points for generating octrees on the level of individual buildings. In order to investigate the effects of the drainage system collapsing due to a heavy rain scenario, a fully three-dimensional parallel free surface flow simulation is incorporated with the interaction of the one-dimensional pipe-network flow. The whole simulation is performed on three levels of resolution, each of which is discretised by a fast voxelisation algorithm to generate a computational grid for the CFD simulation.