Dam Break and Mud-flow Simulation with HEC-RAS and comparing: Brumadinho dam break Brazil
HEC-RAS is one of the most popular hydraulic models (numerical models). HEC-RAS has undergone important changes and improvements since HEC-R...Read More
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Showing posts with label Water Resources. Show all posts
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [Nile River Conflict Egypt vs Ethiopia]
A couple of weeks ago, Ethiopia concluded the construction of The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and it is ready to start filling the da...Read More
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Xe Nammov dam failure in Laos was caused by piping and percolation
On July 2018, the Xe Nammoy saddle dam (Laos) collapsed and devastatedseveral villages . Initially, local authorities blamed an extreme pr...Read More
2D flood simulation HEC-RAS vs Mike21: Hydrodynamic flood simulation comparison
Two of the most popular 2D hydrodynamic models are HEC-RAS and Mike 21. A common question among users is: which one is better? As a ma...Read More
Dam break simulation with HEC-RAS: Chepete proposed dam
Dam failures are catastrophic events in which a dam overflows out of control causing massive fatalities and economic losses. Altho...Read More
Hidroituango hydropower dam Colombia. Opinion from Dr Ordoñez
Last week we presented time frame of the Hidroituango dam fail emergency (link) in Colombia. Engineers reported that the dam reached the t...Read More
Importance of fire flows to calibrate water distribution models
Over the years, I have found several engineering projects and journal articles in the topic of modeling water distribution networks. One co...Read More
New HEC-RAS v 5.0.4
A new version of HEC-RAS was released; HEC-RAS 5.0.4. The first question to HEC-RAS user's is What are the main improvements of this v...Read More
Tropical storms: Hurricanes, Typhoon, Clycones
Last week the Caribean islands, America and Gulf of Mexico experienced 3 Hurricanes in a row. At the same time, important Typhoons are d...Read More
Online hydraulic design and calculations
The advance in mobile apps and internet accessibility changed the way we socialize and the way we work: Sharing information, instant co...Read More
Precipitation intensity for highway & bridge drainage design
Drainage projects usually consider a precipitation intensity based on the time of concentration and the return period. However, when de...Read More
Bridge collapse (Peru) & stream bank erosion
Last days a video of a bridge collapse in Lima (Peru) became viral. The video shows the moment when the scour of a bridge gets scoured and...Read More
Automating HEC-RAS tool
Some years ago, (early 2010) I found a way to break the RAS code and to automate some features of HEC-RAS. Thus, I was able to perform sequ...Read More
Landsat 7 for reconstructing the dissapearance of Poopo lake
In December 2015 new published several articles about the disappearance of the Poopo lake, which used to be the second biggest Bolivian ...Read More
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