Limited-time early-bird discounts
available
Registrations are now available for our dam breach course in Auckland,
New Zealand to be held from 29 November to 1 December 2016. I will be teaching this course with help from Mr. Krey Price of Surface Water Solutions. Please come and join us!

A $250 early-bird discount is available using coupon code “earlybird” at
checkout.
Our agenda will cover
unsteady flow, level pool versus dynamic routing, breach parameters, setting up
a dam breach model, diagnosing and fixing dam breach models, and presentation
of 1D and 2D case studies. Hope to see you there!
A long read, but here's an article that helps to put the dam breach courses in perspective:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis
Great article! I've been following Mosul Dam for a while now. In fact it was th first 2D HEC-RAS model I ever built. Scary to think what. could happen there.
DeleteHi Chris- I am using HEC-RAS v5.0.3 to do a 2D dam breach model. The model is strictly 2D except for the dam itself which is modeled with a Storage Area Connection as Weir and Gates.
ReplyDeleteIn a 1D Dam breach the User can 'Plot Cross Section' and watch an animation of an Inline Structure/ Lateral Structure (see floodwave come through and gates open or close). I've used this to check that my gates are functioning the way I want. However I can't seem to find an animation viewer like this for a Storage Area Connection. Does such a viewer exist? If not, it seems like a feature HEC should add.
Hi Ross. Unfortunately that kind of viewer does not exist in the current version of RAS. Hopefully in the next version!
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