U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Applications Software

FEQ

Full Equations model

Information

UNIX installation instructions (README file)

Cost and ordering of U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation.

Software

Selection of the following options preceded by a binary icon retrieves a compressed UNIX tar file. A README file containing installation instructions is included with each of the software distribution files.

The Free Software Foundation's gunzip is necessary to uncompress the UNIX tar files available below. However, some World Wide Web browsers automatically uncompress retrieved files. Thus, running gunzip as stated in the installation instructions may be unnecessary.

FEQ compiled for...

 Sun SPARCstation (Solaris) (1.6MB)

An IBM-compatible version is not yet available.

FEQ source code for compilation under...

 UNIX (1.4MB)
The above software can also be accessed via anonymous FTP from water.usgs.gov in the /pub/software/surface_water/feq directory.

Documentation

Franz, D.D., and Melching, C.S., 1997, Full Equations (FEQ) model for the solution of the full, dynamic equations of motion for one-dimensional unsteady flow in open channels and through control structures: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4240, 258 p.

FEQ documentation, Portable Document Format (PDF) (774K)

 FEQ documentation, PostScript (PS) (4.2MB)

Franz, D.D., and Melching, C.S., 1997, Full Equations Utilities (FEQUTL) model for the approximation of hydraulic characteristics of open channels and control structures during unsteady flow: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4037, 205 p.

FEQUTL documentation, Portable Document Format (PDF) (699K)

 FEQUTL documentation, PostScript (PS) (2.6MB)