HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS Training in Christchurch – Surface Water Solutions: Consulting and Software Training

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All continuing education resources previously listed at surfacewater.biz has moved to hydroschool.org; going forward, the surfacewater.biz website will be dedicated to drainage-related consulting work only.

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Thanks to those who attended our 2017 and 2018 courses in Christchurch. Click here for upcoming NZ courses.

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This intensive, interactive course uses free hydrologic and hydraulic modelling software:

* Learn rainfall-runoff and flood routing with HEC-HMS

* Build, run, and animate 1D and 2D hydraulic models using HEC-RAS

Come find out what’s new in HEC-RAS 5.0.5 as we cover these powerful new features:

Variable time steps
New culvert options
Mesh refinement regions
Internal boundary conditions
Access faster computation speeds
And more!

Content:

Participants are able to build, run, and animate rainfall-runoff and one- and two-dimensional flood models from scratch by the end of the course. The course covers hydrology and hydraulics using freely downloadable HEC software. The course consists of 4 modules across 4 days. You can register for individual modules separately; the 1D HEC-RAS module is not a prerequisite for 2D.

DAY 1 Tuesday 16 Oct: HEC-HMS Rainfall-Runoff
Instructor: Steve Joynes, Golovin
The following topics will be covered:

Review of TP108
Overview of Precipitation-Runoff Processes
Basin Precipitation
Rainfall Loss Rates Computation
Channel Routing
Multiple catchment and stream modelling
Basin Model Manager
Meteorologic Model Manager
Control specifications and time-series data
Conducting simulation runs
Data interpretation and calibration
Exporting results for use in HEC-RAS

DAY 2 Wednesday 17 Oct: HEC-RAS 1D Hydraulics
Instructor: Steve Joynes, Golovin
The following topics will be covered:

File management with HEC-RAS
Setting up a network
Entering reach data
Entering cross sectional data
Junctions
Bridges and culverts
Steady and unsteady flow
Executing plan files
Floodplain analysis
Interpreting and checking 1D results

DAY 3 Thursday 18 Oct: HEC-RAS 2D Hydraulics Part 1
Instructor: Krey Price, Surface Water Solutions
The following topics will be covered:

RAS Mapper and GIS interfacing
Importing terrain files
Computational mesh generation
Creating 2D areas
Hydrologic boundary conditions
Time step selection
Entering unsteady flow data
Computational options and tolerances

4: Friday 19 Oct: HEC-RAS 2D Hydraulics Part 2
Instructor: Krey Price, Surface Water Solutions
The following topics will be covered:

Adding internal structures
Breaching dams and lateral weirs
Viewing and exporting in RAS Mapper
Troubleshooting models
Calibrating models
Benchmarking HEC-RAS vs. other models
Building your own model from scratch

Certification of continuing professional development hours will be provided to all course attendees.

Contact:

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Get a head start on the course by trying our “Making Middle Zealand” and “Flooding Hobbiton” exercises.

Watch our video introduction below, in which we have a little fun with HEC-RAS trying to replicate flow constrictions in sheep pens:

Please also fill in the hydraulic modelling survey to indicate your level of experience with other modelling programs to assist us in tailoring our courses to best suit experience levels. Certification of professional development hours are available to all attendees.

In light of the recent Kaikoura Earthquake, we have added an exciting case study in which you have one hour, working as a team from scratch, to use HEC-RAS to decide whether or not to send the order to evacuate downstream population centres after an earthquake-induced landslide dam blocks an upstream valley.