A lateral structure (LS) in HEC-RAS, parallel to the centerline of a river, is often used to connect a river reach to a 2D flow area, a storage area, or…
A lateral structure (LS) in HEC-RAS, parallel to the centerline of a river, is often used to connect a river reach to a 2D flow area, a storage area, or…
In HEC-RAS 2D, the terrain created from LiDAR DEM often does not have enough details for areas located within a river channel. For better modeling purpose, normally a river bathymetry…
A storm water pump station (Figure 1) is needed in low areas of a drainage system where drainage by gravity is not possible, such as a depressed roadway segment. Pump…
The SCS Curve Number (CN) is used to quantify infiltration loss during runoff calculation. As illustrated in Figure 1, a curve number should be determined by soil (Hydrologic Soil Groups, or…
To apply the HEC-18 Equation 6.2 (Figure 1) to calculate the live-bed contraction scour depth, the bed material particle D50 fall velocity needs to be determined to estimate the coefficient…
The bridge contraction scour depth and pier scour depth calculations are explained in the following three posts - Horizontal Contraction Scour, Vertical Contraction Scour (Pressure Flow Scour), and Local Pier…
The post here introduces using HEC-18 equation to calculate horizontal contraction scour under non-pressure flow condition and this post is to explain vertical contraction scour (pressure flow scour). When a bridge…
Bridge scour analysis is often required to design a new bridge or evaluate an existing bridge. Bridge scour depth is a critical bridge design component for foundation calculation. The scouring…
Bridge scour analysis is often required to design a new bridge or evaluate an existing bridge. Bridge scour depth is a critical bridge design component for foundation calculation. The scouring…
In HEC-RAS models, a lateral structure (LS) is often used to establish a connection between 1D river reach (upstream end of a lateral structure) and a storage area/2D flow area/another…