SvePy src v1.0

SvePy Saint Venant Solver Python version 1.0 <br>
author: Ben R. Hodges <br>
National Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management <br>
University of Texas at Austin <br>
Copyright (c) 2019 Ben R. Hodges <br>
Distributable as Public Domain Software <br><br>

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File organization: <br>
/src source code for SvePy <br>
/input input files needed for test cases <br>
/restart restart files used for Waller Creek test cases <br>
/documentation code documentation (limited) <br>
/outbin_### output binary files from test cases <br>
/outtxt_### output text files from test cases <br>
/FigureProcessingMatlab scripts used to produce figures in Hodges and Liu (2019) <br><br>

Note: documentation of the code is limited to the comments within the code,
the technical report in the /documentation folder, and the following papers: <br><br>

Hodges, B. R. (2019).
Conservative finite-volume forms of the Saint-Venant equations for hydrology and urban drainage.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,
23, 1281-1304.
doi: 10.5194/hess-23-1281-2019 <br><br>

Hodges, B. R., and F. Liu, (2019).
Timescale interpolation and no-neighbor discretization for a 1D finite-volume Saint-Venant solver.
Journal of Hydraulic Research
(submitted July 2019) <br><br>

The top-level scripts for running the code are labeled Run_### <br><br>