MoT-Voellmy v. 2025-02-10

First public, open-source release of MoT-Voellmy, a simple and fast code for simulating the flow of (dense) snow avalanches over curved terrain. See the README file for a brief summary of the main features of the code and the documentation for more details on the mathematical and physical background as well as on how to run simulations.

The release provides the source code and executables for Linux and MS Windows, a version for macOS will be added shortly. The Linux version has been tested on Lubuntu 22.04 and 24.04. On Ubuntu 20.04 or other distributions using the same or older versions of the C standard library, either try with the statically linked executable or recompile the code as

gcc -Wall -pedantic -o MoT-Voellmy.2025-02-10 MoT-Voellmy.2025-02-10.c -lm.

For questions and remarks, please send an e-mail to di@ngi.no.