Regional Sediment Management (RSM) Modeling Tools: Integration of Advanced Sediment Transport Tools into HEC-RAS

Abstract

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) summarizes the development and initial testing of new sediment transport and modeling tools developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Institute for Water Resources (IWR), Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC), to increase the functionality of numerical modeling of sediment transport within the USACE HEC River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) software package and to determine its applicability to Regional Sediment Management (RSM) challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA604359

Entities

People

  • Paul M. Boyd
  • Stanford Gibson

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Civil Engineering
  • Climate Change
  • Dams
  • Dredging
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Flood Control
  • Missouri River
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Transport Ships
  • Unsteady Flow
  • Water
  • Water Resources

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Software Engineering.