HEC-RAS Software

Description

HEC-RAS is used to evaluate the impacts of floodplain encroachment (flood analysis); for example, delineating the approximate limits of the 100-year floodplain. Effects of structures such as bridges, culverts and weirs in the flood plain can be assessed.

Factsheet: Read the HEC-RAS fact sheet

• Users: Hydrologists and Engineers
• Training: No training information listed. 
• Vendor Information: Program description and support information are available at: http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/

Software Download

• Software is available at: https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/

Software Capacity

• The HEC-RAS modeling system simulates flow through a full network of open channels, both natural and man-made.
• The HEC-RAS modeling system develops water surface profiles (depth of flow, water surface elevation, velocity.)
• The HEC-RAS modeling system simulates sediment transport and deposition in a stream channel.
• Develop water surface profiles, evaluate depth of flow in stream channels, delineate floodplain and analyze flooding potential.
• Model and analyze a network of stream channels, a dendritic system or a single river reach.
• Model subcritical, super critical and mixed flow regimes.
• Model sediment transport and deposition in a stream channel.
• Model the hydraulics of bridges, culverts and stream junctions on stream flow and floodplains.

For More Information

Contact Omar Beckford (obeckford@osmre.gov); (412) 937-2118