Project

The cmf project is the container for the nodes of the water flux network. For any kind of cmf model, the first step is to create a project:

import cmf
p = cmf.project()

The project represents the study area and holds the cells (horizontal discretization of the soil), the reaches (discretized river sections), "free" water storages (like lakes, dams etc.) and the boundary conditions. While models for channeled flow may only contain reaches, but no cells, every model spatial explicit description of subsurface flux needs to have cells.

Have a look at the description of the programming interface for project.

Adding Cells, Rivers, free water storages and boundary conditions is explained in the next parts of the tutorial. Bear in mind, that nearly every cmf object is somehow bound to a project. Creating a project is therefore always the second step in using cmf after import of the library.

The next tutorial contains a first simple, conceptual model (Nash-Boxes).