Welcome to SFINCS’s documentation!

‘SFINCS’ is Deltares’ new reduced-complexity model designed for super-fast modelling of compound flooding in a dynamic way! This online documentation describes the input files and parameters of the SFINCS model (Super-Fast INundation of CoastS), model output and how to get started.

Contact:

Mail ‘sfincs@deltares.nl’ for questions that are not answered yet by this documentation.

License:

SFINCS has been made freely available open source for you to use under the standard GNU GPL-v3.0 license (see: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/ for more information).

Quick information:

• For an introduction of the SFINCS model see the introduction journal publication, see: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2020.103796

• For more general information about SFINCS and Deltares, see: https://deltares.nl/en/software/sfincs/

• To download a free pre-compiled windows executable of SFINCS, see: https://download.deltares.nl/en/sfincs

• To collaborate with us on improving the model, see: https://github.com/Deltares/SFINCS

• To raise possible issues with the latest version of the model, see: https://github.com/Deltares/SFINCS/issues

• For a background on SFINCS, application areas, performed international projects and publiscations, see “Introduction” in this manual.

Outline manual: This manual is outlined containing the following parts, see also the overview bar on the left:

• Introduction

• Developments

• Getting started

• User manual

• Input parameters and files

• Model output and messages

Acknowledgements

SFINCS is developed at Deltares and initiated by Maarten van Ormondt. This documentation is developed and maintained by Tim Leijnse and Roel de Goede.