Projects / Surface Water Management
Convert C-51 Basin Rule Reevaluation HEC-RAS model to MIKE11
The district contracted LAGO to convert a 100-yr, 72-hr event HEC-RAS model of the C-51 Basin into a MIKE11 model. The MIKE11 model will consider all the features in the HEC-RAS model in order to demonstrate and evaluate the applicability of the MIKE11 model in the C-51 basin.
- CLIENT
- South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)
- YEAR
- 2014
- APPLIED SKILLS
- Customized software: file format converter
H&H Modeling: Model Conversion - CONSULTING AREAS
- H&H
- SOFTWARE
- MIKE11, HEC-RAS, ArcMap, and LAGO Toolbox
Specifics
DHI distributes a conversion tool from HEC-RAS to MIKE11 that is unsupported and not updated. That tool did not work for converting the C51 HEC-RAS model.
LAGO successfully converted the C-51 basin HEC-RAS model to MIKE11, and in the process, developed a new conversion tool (named HEC-RAS to MIKE 11) in order to extract the information in the geometry file from a HEC-RAS model and build the corresponding MIKE11 files. This conversion tool is available as part of the LAGO Toolbox.
Outcome
The corresponding MIKE 11 model was successfully created. The comparison of the results from both models show relatively good agreement, considering that the modeling algorithms in HEC-RAS and MIKE11 are not completely equivalent.