Thursday, March 13, 2008

HEC-RAS 4 again

Well, we finished the streamflow part of the HEC-RAS 4 course and have started on the sediment transport portion. The good news: HEC-RAS 4 does the Wilcock bedload rating curve. The bad news - it is a crappy one-dimensional solution that produces results for a mixture that are the opposite of what Curran and Wilcock report in real life. Hmmmm.

After taking this course I think that I will be using it (HR4) to determine bankfull reach profiles and NOT using it for sediment transport calculations. Maybe for a backup incipient motion threshold calculation as a check, though. It might do that well enough...