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Note: As we discussed previously in elass, every HEC-RAS project is defined by the following files.
During our practice, this manual will refer to menus as< menu name> and sub-menus will be
referred to as
1. Start HEC-RAS
pouble click on the HEC-RAS short cut icon HEC-RAS 3,1.2, or if the icon is not available on your
desktop try
Title: Trapezoid
And click OK
Select <Edit>. Geometric Data. This should start the Geometric Data interface seen below
River
Reach
left corner and draw a line to the button-right corner. Double click to end the reach
Note: Clicking once while drawing allows you to change direction and give the stream a new vertex.
We are
not doing this. Our stream is represented by a straight line.
River: Trapezoid
Reach: Main
5.1 Click on the Cross Section Editor button. This will start the Cross Section Data
interface.
5.2 In the Cross Section Data interface select <Options>. Add a New Cross Section
5.3 A dialogue will ask you enter a new river station. Enter 1.0
Note: Station must have numbers not names. HEC-RAS will assign the lowest station number to the
downstream end of the stream, Our stream will be 800 ft long and we will initially have 9 cross
sections
In the spreadsheet (Cross Section X-Y Coordinates) on the left side interface enter the following
cross section
Coordinates
Station
Elevation
30
50
70
4.
90
120
A trapezoidal channel with 10:1 side slope 30:1 bank slope and 20 ft button width
In the Manning's n Values: enter 0.042 for left overbank, 0.035 for Channel and 0.043 for Right
Overbank
In the Main Channel Bank Station: enter 30 for left bank station and 90 for right bank station.
Leave the Con/Exp Coefficients values at their default 0.1 for Contraction and 0.3 for Expansion
Leave the Downstream Reach Length values blank. This is the last D/S station and there are no
points below
it.
Click on Apply Data button and you should see your cross section and its information as following
Our channel has a constant cross section, 0.005 slope and an 800 ft length. Since the cross section
remains
the
same, we will first copy the information into the upstream point, which will be assigned a station
9.0.
Second,
we will raise the station by 4 ft (4/800= 0.005). Finally we will interpolate between the two stations
at equal
6.1 Copying Cross Section. In the Cross Section Data interface, select
This should start a new dialogue box requesting the station to copy the cross section to, enter 9.0
The new cross section is loaded into the editor (check the River Sta: field, it should have 9.0)
6.2 Raising the cross section at station 9 by 4 ft: In the Cross Section Data interface,
Once you click OK, notice the changed elevations at station 9. The new cross section should look like
Station
Elevation
11.
30
10.
50
8.
70
90
10.
120
11
6.3 Entering Downstream Distances: In the spreadsheet's Downstream Reach Lengths, enter 800 ft
for the
LOB,
drew the channel) and select < Tools >-< XS Interpolation Within Reach
Click Close.
Note: Notice that all interpolated cross sections have a (*) next to the station
number. This means that they are considered temporary cross sections. They
can be made permanent by deleting the (*) from their names in the cross
section editor. We will not do this for now, but we will do so for certain cross
In the Geometric Data Interface, select < File>. Save Geometry Data
In the Save Geometry Data As dialogue, the file name is selected automatically. Do not change that.
But you
Click OK. The main HEC-RAS Window should now show you a couple of new information
need to enter steady flow data. From the main HEC-RAS control (seen above), select < Edit > . Steady
Flow
Data
7.1 Entering Inflow Rate: For steady flow conditions we need to know the inflow at each upstream
end of our
river. In our case, we have only one upstream point. Therefore we need to provide inflow rate at this
point.
(65 cfs)
7.2 Selecting and Entering Boundary Stream Condition: In the Steady Flow Data editor, click on the
Reach
Boundary Conditions button. There are several options available to us, these are
At this stage, given no other information, we will select the Normal Depth at the downstream point.
First
make sure that the Downstream fleld is highlighted, and click on the Normal Depth. A dialogue will
ask you
to enter the downstream slope for Normal Depth. Use the channel bed-slope for that, which is
0.005. And
click OK.
From the steady flow editor, select <File> . Save Flow Data
The name will be automatically selected, you need to enter a title. Enter US-Q DS-Normal and Click
OK
From the steady flow editor, select <File> . Exit Flow Data Editor
We are now ready to conduct our first HEC-RAS Simulation study
In the HEC-RAS control interface, select < Run>. Steady Flow Analysis
The name of your plan may be different (Plan 01) Accept it, make sure that the Geometry file is the
right one as well as the steady flow file. Also make sure that you have the Subcritical Flow Regime
checked (We need different boundary condition for the superctritical or mixed flow regimes)
Click the Compute button. It should finish computing. Again on some XP system, you may need to
push the
stop button. If you see a "Finished Steady Flow Simulation", you are OK. Close, and exit steady state
analysis
dialogue
9. View Results:
Profiles
You can move from one station to another using the arrows
Profile Plot:
Here we have only one plot. If we were running multiple profiles, we could go
Using rotation angle and the azimuth angle slider, we can change the view perspective..
HEC-RAS Practice
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Solution:
Note: As we discussed previously in class, every HEC-RAS project is defined by the following files
File Description
Geometry File
Plan File
Extension
PR
G**
F**
P**
R*
During our practice, this manual will refer to menus as < menu name > and sub-menus will be
referred to as
1. Start HEC-RAS
Cross Section