Chris Goodell

Chris is the Principal Consultant for Hydraulics and Hydrology at Kleinschmidt Associates. Chris specializes in water resources hydraulic engineering. He has a background in both hydraulic design and river engineering. His expertise includes hydraulic modeling, dam break studies, sediment transport, bridge and culvert design, inundation mapping, and software development/design. Chris is an internationally known leader in HEC-RAS modeling with a particular interest in risk-based solutions for hydraulic modeling. He has taught over 100 professional education courses on HEC-RAS around the United States and on 4 continents. Chris is the developer and primary author of “The RAS Solution”, a HEC-RAS blog and author of the book “Breaking the HEC-RAS Code”. He also developed McBreach, a software program that runs HEC-RAS dam breach models in a probabilistic framework.

Involved in:

• Earth’s biggest floods (October 2024)
• AI tools for modelling innovation (February 2024)
• Dam Breach with HEC-RAS
• ChatGPT: Water sector applications (April 2023)
• From Courant to Saint Venant (May 2022)
• H&H Essentials #6: 1D, 2D and 3D flow
• Froude, Dude! (March 2022)
• Natural dams – inherent risk factors (August 2021)
• Something’s fishy (May 2021)
• Roughing it for water modellers (February 2020)
• Dam safety modelling using McBreach© (November 2019)
• Webinar: Get Structured with Hydraulics! (May 2019)