Dams offer numerous benefits to society, but their failure can lead to catastrophic floods, causing severe damage to both people and property. Simulating dam break events and subsequent floods is ...

HEC-RAS's finite volume solver involves tightly coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations. These calculations are highly interdependent – data from each simulated cell needs to ...

Sometime after publishing RAS-Commander, I came across Rich Sutton's essay "The Bitter Lesson" I found some profound insights that may resonate deeply many of our common experiences in the field of ...

Abstract: Scouring refers to the lowering of the level of river bed due to water erosion. Formation of vortices in the vicinity of bridges due to obstruction caused to river flow by piers and ...

ABSTRACT: Ethiopia has been booming with active construction of dams within the past few decades for different infrastructural needs, but has never experienced demolition or failure of dams in its ...