This website is the result of AQUAEXCEL 3.0 WP4 – "Technological tools for improved experimental procedures".
Experiments with fish usually involve extensive use of laboratory facilities, and often need to run for long periods of time to obtain the desired answers. In such experiments, it is essential to ensure that the fish experience acceptable welfare conditions. Together with the potentially high costs of such experiments, the welfare perspective underlines the need for good experimental planning when doing research on fish. Both from an ethical (3R's) and a cost perspective, numerical models may be useful tools for experimental design, preparation and planning before realizing the actual experiments.
In the previous AQUAEXCEL project we developed a virtual laboratory system that enabled virtual experiments in aquaculture research facilities. This system featured a framework that allowed the integration of mathematical models of different subsystems in common simulations, replicating the system operation of research laboratories.
Using the fmi standard, models for growth, nutrition and waste production, hydrodynamic flow fields in tanks and cages, and water quality and water treatment were wrapped in fmus. A simulation framework was developed to integrate these fmus and perform simulations across them.
In AQUAEXCEL 3.0 we continue to improve upon the models and also develop new models. This website contains several tutorials on how to download a simulation tool and different models in order to make your own virtual lab where you can simulate experiments with fish! We have also made an assistant that can help you towards choosing the right tutorial for your needs.
10.03.2024 - Several new tutorials available!
To get ready for the AQUAEXCEL 3.0 Training course, several new tutorials have been added.
03.03.2024 - Site is redeployed!
The site has been moved to a new server for testing during an AQUAEXCEL 3.0 Training course.
The virtual assistant is offline for retraining.
14.04.2023 - VL3 goes live
First version of the new virtual laboratory is launched!