visualab.sdsu.edu, visualab, online hydraulic and hydrologic engineering lab, Victor Miguel Ponce

1726. Visualab [090802] 1726.1 The People of the Visualab

The VISUALAB is a research and teaching computing laboratory facility at the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State University, California. The lab specializes in hydraulic and hydrologic engineering applications, and develops world-class online software using standard protocols such as HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. Extensive use is made of native and commercial software. The lab features a collection of more than one-hundred (100) scripts for a variety of applications, including steady and unsteady flow, gradually varied and rapidly varied flow, evapotranspiration, flood routing, sediment transport, channel design, and water quality. The computer hardware featured are two SUN Unix servers, four SUN Unix workstations, one HP Linux server with Adobe Flash Media streaming, one iMac media workstation, and one HP Windows workstation.

Visualab's Smart-UPS monitoring: Real time

Visualab's Smart-UPS monitoring: 15-minute log (full record)

Visualab's Smart-UPS monitoring: 15-minute log (last month)

Visualab's Smart-UPS monitoring: Graph

List of equipment for video production in the Visualab

iMac in the VL

How to stream videos in the Visualab

What have we learned from streaming videos in the Visualab

The Visualab features:

one Sun Fire V240 public server running Solaris 9
one Sun Ultra 45 applications development server running Solaris 10
one Hewlett-Packard xw6000 streaming server running Linux CentOS and Adobe Flash Media streaming server software
four Sun Blade 1500 student workstations running Solaris 10
one Apple iMac applications development workstation running Mac OS X
one Hewlett-Packard xw8200 staff workstation running Windows XP

The lab is used for teaching and research applications in web-based hydraulic and hydrologic engineering at San Diego State University's Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering.

The following software is available:

AutoCAD 2008: Computer-aided design software.

CGI: Common Gateway Interface, for interactive web-based applications.

CSS: Cascade Style Sheets for web-based applications.

COREL DRAW X3: To develop specialized graphics.

FINAL CUT STUDIO 2: To develop specialized webvideo applications.

FIREWORKS: To develop specialized web graphics.

FORTRAN 77: Structured language compiler (FORmula TRANslation).

FORTRAN 90: Structured language compiler (FORmula TRANslation).

GIMP 2.0: Open-source GNU Image Manipulation Program.

HEC-HMS 3.2: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Hydrologic Modeling System.

HEC-RAS 4.0: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' River Analysis System.

HTML: Hyper-text Media Language.

IMAGEMAGICK: Open-source graphics development software.

LATEX: Electronic typesetting software.

ONLINECALC.SDSU.EDU Online hydrologic and hydraulic software.

PERL: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.

PHOTOSHOP CS3: Professional graphical manipulation software.

PHP 5: Scripting language to develop dynamic web content.

RAINFLO 1.4: Catchment model for simulation of flood flows.

SSH: To Secure the SHell of a remote workstation or server.

TERRAIN NAVIGATOR PRO: Map Tech's digital map imaging, V. 6.0.

Variation of the dam-breach Froude number with dimensionless distance downstream of the dam breach; hydrograph volume = 27000 m³ (Ponce, Taher-shamsi, and Shetty: ASCE Journal or Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 129(10), 2003, 1-6).