2026 ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Workshop

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 - 08:15 AM

Modeling Best Practices and Key New Features in HEC-RAS 2D Modeling Workshop
 

BACKGROUND
This course will introduce participants to modeling best practices and key new features in HEC-RAS 2D modeling up through software version 6.6.   Learning will be accomplished through a combination of lectures, project examples. Q&A, and lively discussion.

Participants in this course must have an interest in 2D modeling and have previous experience with 1D/2D modeling related to floodplain mapping, hydraulics, river restoration, stormwater, and or hydraulic structures.  This is not intended to be an introductory course.  The course will be focused on HEC-RAS 2D modeling fundamentals.  This course will cover a range of topics to today’s practitioner including modeling best practices, model troubleshooting, results review and visualization, pipe networks and pump stations, rain-on-grid simulations, and how to incorporate radar rainfall into models.   The intent is to balance good modeling practice with introduction of new or advanced topics.

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