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[Poetic Engineering]: ​The Ganges and the Bramaputra

Chosing ‘a 2-D depth average numerical model using the software package Delft3D’ R. Vila Santamaria made a computersimulation of the streams of Bangladesh so that dry fall of off-takes and thus problematic droughts can be foreseen and prevented.

(Closure of offtakes in Bangladesh, uuid:691dbc0b-a713-4f29-9354-202c713cc4bc)


Being both river people, it so seems


the Dutch would share a lot with Bangladeshians


but while our rivers flow in tepid fashions


they have much wilder, untamed, fickle streams.

 


The Ganges and the Bramaputra flow


in ways that vary very, very much.


Compared to what we’re used to see, as Dutch


it is hard to understand and timely know

 


just when and where an offtake may fall dry


and how to halt a likely lethal drought.


Mere facts quickly grow obsolete, that’s why

 


computer simulations must help out.


So now potential lack we can foresee


because of 2-D depth in Delft3D.

 


Jeroen Manders

Bauke Steenhuisen (universiteit docent bij de faculteit TBM) en Jeroen Manders (zanger, acteur, tekstschrijver, componist en voormalig IO student) verdichtten tussen december 2014 en maart 2017 42 keer een Delftse afstudeerscriptie of proefschrift tot een sonnet. Illustraties waren van Ella Nitters.


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