HEC-RAS

HEC-RAS (short for Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis Software) is a simulation software used to model the hydraulics of water flow through natural rivers and other open channels. The program was developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) in Davis, California as a successor to their HEC-2 Water Surface Profiles program. HEC-RAS version 1.0 was released in July 1995, with the capability to model steady flow in one dimension; since then, further releases have increased the modeling capabilities to include quasi-unsteady and unsteady flow, two dimensional modeling, sediment transport and water quality modeling, and distributed hydrologic modeling (Rain-on-Grid.) The program is free to download from HEC, though there is no support provided for non-USACE users.

Though HEC-RAS was initially developed by USACE for use on their own projects, other United States federal agencies have adopted it for use, including FEMA. It is also used by hydraulic modelers for various applications worldwide, both in academia and industry.

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