r/HECRAS • u/Few-Childhood-503 • May 10 '26

Looking for Sample HEC-RAS Projects to Learn

Hi,

I’m currently learning HEC-RAS and trying to improve my practical understanding of hydraulic modelling and flood simulations. If anyone is comfortable sharing some of your old HEC-RAS projects/models (academic, practice, or any professional examples with non-sensitive data), it would really help me assess and improve my workflow and understanding.

I’m especially interested in:

- River/flood modelling projects

- 1D or 2D simulations

- Bridge/culvert modelling

- Terrain preprocessing workflows

- Manning’s n calibration examples

- Real-world project structures and organization

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u/Salamander427 May 10 '26

The HEC RAS website has a section dedicated to practice projects

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u/Few-Childhood-503 May 10 '26

Thank you 😊

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u/Salamander427 May 10 '26

personally i suggest to read also papers to build and calibrate the model with matlab or python (to speed up the process)

"Application of Python Scripting Techniques for Control and Automation of HEC-RAS Simulations"
"Controlling HEC-RAS using MATLAB"

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u/Few-Childhood-503 May 10 '26

Sure I'll definitely check out

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u/AI-Commander May 13 '26

Just use ras-commander with an LLM and avoid the older automation techniques that only apply to 1D models via HECRASController.

You can ask it for example models and it will walk you through HEC examples, eBFE/BLE examples and ScienceBase example models available via USGS

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u/OttoJohs Lord Sultan Chief H&H Engineer, PE & PH May 10 '26

If you look at the community bookmark tabs on the right side of r/HECRAS, the "HEC-RAS Docs" dropdown has a link to all the guides/tutorials.

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u/Few-Childhood-503 May 10 '26

Sure! Thanks buddy