HEC-RAS Hydraulic Modeling Guide
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HEC-RAS
GCIV5902
Civil engineering workshops
15 novembre 2023
Margot Allain Belanger, engineer.
Computer modeling of infrastructures
Bentley Suite - water
Bentley Suite – Storm Sewers
Bentley Suite – Sanitary Sewers
Autodesk (AutoCAD/Civil 3D) – Stormwater and
sanitary facilities
Storm and Sanitary Analysis - SSA
Autodesk (AutoCAD/Civil 3D) – Drinking Water
EPA - Drinking water
EPA – Stormwater and sanitary sewers
SWMM PCSWMM (from CHI)
Computer modeling - software
Storm Drains Sanitary sewers Drinking water
SWMM / PCSWMM SWMM / PCSWMM EPANET
SewerGEMS / StormCAD SewerGEMS WaterGEMS
Civil3D / SSA Civil3D / SSA InfoWater Pro
Master water system plan
Master plan for sanitary and storm sewers
What to do for river studies?
Jones Lake, Main Street, Moncton
HEC-RAS:
US Army Corps of Engineers -
Hydrologic Engineering
Center (HEC) –
River Analysis System
HEC-RAS 6.4.1
•HHydrologic Engineering Center's River Analysis System
Allows the 1D for the versions
Developed by the < v5.0
modeling of
American ministry
écoulements dans 2D for the versions
of the defense
the rivers > v5.0
Why HEC-RAS?
Allows flow simulation
in a river or in a
channel in order to determine the
water level.
Main objectives being
studies on floods
determine the flood zones.
Interface:
Editing icons Icons of
and display of Icons of visualization of
data simulation results
Methodology:
Creation of a Insertion of Insertion of Insertion of
Visualization
new data data conditions to Simulation
results
project geometric hydraulics limits
Installation
of the software
HEC-RAS Downloads ([Link])
Computer settings modification
• Possibly required to change "." to "," in "control panel": Clock and Region / Region /
Additional parameters / decimal symbol
Recommendations
Develop a structure to save your
files.
Recommendation of Surface Water Solutions
for each project:
Aerial Photos
02 Hydrology
Use of the land
04 Projection - prerequisites to start
05 Results
06Terrain - required to start
[Link]
07 Shape files
Units
For each new project, it is necessary to specify units.
Create a new project
HEC-RAS - File Management
Geometry File (*.g01) Unsteady Flow File (*.u01) Plan File (*.p01) RAS Mapper File (*.rasmapper)
Location of Hydrograms Link for geometry Assign project (*.prj)
borders Precipitations and flows Identifier land and usage
("Boundaries") Conditions to Window simulation zoning
Roughnesses borders Options and tolerances •Visualizer: data from
geometry, plan results
geospatial data.
Ras Mapper
Ras Mapper – 'Projection'
establish the project's coordinate system
1. Projection file:
Nad83 for Canada, choose
.prj file
Home -- Spatial Reference
[Link]
Ras Mapper - GeoNB(terrain elevations, p.10 of the guide)
1. Terrain file: Geonb: Téléchargement : Modèle numérique
elevation derived from LIDAR ("DEM" in English)
GeoNB - geographic information and to
value-added related applications ([Link])
2. Add to HEC-RAS
Save file as
existing
Merge Inputs to Single Raster
to use if you have more than one 'Tile'
Land cover data
(ex: zoning maps)
Possibility to add
zoning maps
Available cards at
starting from
commissions
of urban planning
Create a new geometry
Project | Create New Geometry
Create a new geometry -
associate basic data
If you have added zoning maps ('LandCover'), visible here.
Create a new geometry - Options
Tools | Options: establish the
units, options to edit,
etc.
Create a new geometry
Identify the river:
Choose geometry, click
on "Start Editing"
Create a new geometry
Rivers
Draw from one end to
the other, start in
amount.
Double-click to
to finish.
Name this segment.
Create a new geometry
Banks ("Bank Lines"):
To identify the channel
principal.
Draw as precisely as
possible.
Separate the riverbed from the river
the banks of the river.
Create a new geometry
Transverse sections
Cross Sections
•Tools | Options:
meters or kilometers?
Choose how you
Do you want to define them.
Create a new geometry
Transverse sections
Cross Sections
Draw your sections
transversals, in you
ensuring that there is enough
link to include the
riverbanks.
Create a new geometry
Cross Sections | Open
Attribute Table: Données
additional ones that we can
allocate: bridges, areas of
storage, etc.
Geometric Data Editor
Close RAS Mapper
•Edit | Geometric Dataou bien:
File | Open Geometry Data
Other steps (see software guide)
Identify debits and add to the model
Add the conditions at the borders
("boundary conditions")
Refine the cross sections
• Analyses for steady state and
transient ("steady" vs "unsteady")
Calibration and simulation
2D model: addition of structures
[Link]
@TheRASSolution/videos