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XBeach
Available Versions:
version 1.24 / version 1.23

XBeach is a powerful two-dimensional simulator designed for modeling wave propagation, sediment transport, and morphological changes in nearshore areas. It is widely used in coastal engineering to predict how shorelines evolve under the influence of waves, tides, and currents, making it an essential tool for erosion studies, coastal protection projects, and environmental impact assessments.

With Inductiva, you can speed up your XBeach simulations by more than 8x by sending them to Cloud machines with hundreds of cores and terabytes of disk space.

How to Run XBeach on the Cloud

Running your XBeach simulations on the Cloud is easy. All you need is to create a short Python script that points Inductiva to the simulation artifacts you have on your computer, and we will take it from there.

On the right, we show how to use the Inductiva API to send an XBeach simulation to a 180 vCPU machine (c3d-highcpu-180) hosted on Google Cloud (GCP).

You can copy paste this Python script, adapt it to your own case, and specify the XBeach version you want to run. Your simulation will start right away, without waiting in a queue.

                            """XBeach example."""
import inductiva

# Allocate Google cloud machine
cloud_machine = inductiva.resources.MachineGroup( \
    provider="GCP",
    machine_type="c3d-highcpu-180")

# Initialize the Simulator
xbeach = inductiva.simulators.XBeach(version="1.24")

# Run simulation with configuration files in the input directory
task = xbeach.run( \
    input_dir="/path/to/my/xbeach/files",
    on=cloud_machine)

# Wait for the simulation to finish and download the results
task.wait()
cloud_machine.terminate()

task.download_outputs()

Dive Deep

Galveston Island Beach and Dune Simulation

In this advanced XBeach example, we run a simulation based on input data from a study of beach and dune enhancement scenarios on Galveston Island, Texas, using data made available by the Harte Research Institute.