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

1726. Visualab [100714] 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 one-hundred and ten 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 one Hewlett-Packard Linux data/media server, one Hewlett-Packard Linux media server, two SUN Unix data servers, five Apple Imac development workstations, and one Hewlett-Packard Windows XP workstation. Click on ONLINE CALC to display calculation portal

1. List of equipment for video production in the Visualab

2. iMac in the Visualab

3. How to stream videos in the Visualab

4. What have we learned from streaming videos in the Visualab

5. Steps in the development of a webvideo

6. Instructions to develop a webvideo

7. Media serving in the Visualab

8. Before Lights Camera Action

9. How to create swf files in Flash

10. How to drop videos into FCP

11. How to create psd images in PS

12. How to change bgcolor in PS

13. How to run the Ikan teleprompter

The Visualab features:

one HP Proliant DL385 G7 server running Red Hat Linux 4.0
one Sun Fire V240 public server running Solaris 9
one Sun Ultra 45 applications development server running Solaris 10
five Apple iMac applications development workstations running Mac OS X
one Hewlett-Packard xw6000 streaming server running Linux CentOS and Adobe Flash Media streaming server software
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:

ADOBE CS 5: Adobe Creative Suite 5.

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.

FLASH MEDIA SERVER SOFTWARE: Adobe's RTMP streaming media software.

FINAL CUT PRO 7: To develop specialized webvideo applications.

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.

HELIX: Real Networks' HTTP streaming media software.

HTML: Hyper-text Media Language.

IMAGEMAGICK: Open-source graphics development software.

JAVASCRIPT: For dynamic web applications.

LATEX: Electronic typesetting software.

MySQL: Structured Query Language for database applications.

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.

SQUEEZE 6: To encode (compress) media prior to posting on the web.

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

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

XILISOFT: To convert media between formats.

Dr. Victor M. Ponce with Juan Villaseñor, SDSU civil enginering senior, recipient of the Amazon.com Gift Certificate for being the No. 100,000 visitor of ponce.sdsu.edu, on April 26, 2010, at 23:45.

Juan Villaseñor, SDSU civil enginering senior, was the No. 100,000 visitor of ponce.sdsu.edu, on April 27, 2010.

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).