Insights & Articles
Expert perspectives on flood risk, resilience, and water management.
July 12, 2026
3D Visualization of the Malpasset Dam Break Simulation using Modelixa Map
VECTIXA created a 3D visualization of the Malpasset Dam Break simulation to show how flood depths evolve across terrain through time. The visualization combines the terrain, elevation contours, and dynamic flood-depth results This makes the dam-break wave easier to understand spatially, especially
Read article→July 12, 2026
From Persian Qanats to Digital Water Modeling: A Legacy of Engineering for Better Water Management
Long before modern pumps, satellites, cloud computing, and numerical models, Iranian engineers developed one of the most elegant water technologies in human history: the qanat. A qanat is an underground water-conveyance system that captures groundwater from upland aquifers and transports it by gravi
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Modelixa Map running the FloodSimBench LA001 urban rain-on-grid benchmark: a Los Angeles-area 41 mm, 1-hour rainfall case on a 2.47M-cell grid.
This video shows a Modelixa Map rain-on-grid flood simulation for the FloodSimBench LA001 benchmark, a Los Angeles-area urban flood-mapping test case. The benchmark applies a synthetic 41 mm, 1-hour rainfall event over a high-resolution urban DEM.
Read article→December 22, 2025
Why Deep, Multi-Source Uncertainty Is One of the Most Difficult Problems in Engineering
Uncertainty has always been part of engineering. What makes modern water, flood, and infrastructure engineering uniquely difficult is not climate change alone, but the simultaneous interaction of many distinct sources of uncertainty that propagate through coupled systems and long decision horizons.
Read article→October 20, 2025
Why Texas Must Accelerate Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Texas is growing at a pace unmatched by almost anywhere else in the nation. With projections showing Texas on track to become not only the most pop...
Read article→September 20, 2025
Atlas 15: Progress, But Still Not Enough
For decades, engineers have relied on NOAA’s precipitation frequency atlases to design culverts, bridges, detention basins, and other stormwater infra...
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