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Training: Surface water hydraulics
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Hydrology and Hydraulics Essentials training series
From first principles to engineering applications
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Bridge Scour essentials
Learn the background theory behind pier scour, abutment scour, and contraction scour.
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Structures with HEC-RAS
Hydraulic modelling of bridges and culverts
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Rating Curves
Join our expert presenters for a hands-on, interactive course covering the development of rating curves from measurements and models.
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H&H Essentials #5: Hydrostatics and open channel flow
Principles governing fluid pressure and open channel flow
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H&H Essentials #6: 1D, 2D and 3D flow
Understand key differences in 1D, 2D and 3D flow computations
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H&H Essentials #7: Pipe flow and hydraulic structures
Learn hands-on how to compute pipe flow for culverts and storm drain networks.
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H&H Essentials #8: Flood hazard, scour and sedimentation
Apply hydraulic forces to buildings, vehicles, hydraulic structures and channel banks
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ARR Course #1: Rainfall Design Inputs
Learn what the most important inputs are, where to find them in the data hub and how to use them for rainfall design.
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ARR Course #2: Flood Frequency Analysis
Discover a how-to-guide on flood frequency analysis
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ARR Course #3: Hydrologic Modelling Applications
Learn how to apply the new ARR to hydrologic modelling, necessary for prediction of design flood hydrographs.
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ARR Course #4: Flood Hydraulics
Gain an understanding of the basic aspects of hydraulics and how to apply the ARR blockage procedures.
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ARR Course #5: Design Estimation
What has changed in design flood estimation?
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ARR Course #6: Extreme Events
Guidelines for special design applications where floods of low Annual Exceedance Probabilities need to be estimated
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ARR Course #7: Urban Approaches
Understand urban drainage systems and the philosophy adopted in Australian Rainfall and Runoff.
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ARR Course #8: Urban Flood Modelling
How to calculate urban losses and apply conveyance and volume control measures
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3D hydraulic modelling essentials
Enhance your hydraulic modelling capabilities by exploring 3D concepts with worked examples using free software
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Climate change updates to ARR Guidelines
Panel discussion on the updated Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) Guidelines for climate change considerations.
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Let’s get physical!
How to get meaningful hydraulic results from a physical model
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Earth’s biggest floods
Uncovering geological evidence for the world’s largest flood events
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Dam breach essentials
Dive deep in to dam breach modelling and master the art of input data and calibration.
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How to benchmark your hydraulic solver
Discover how to evaluate hydraulic solver’s suitability and perform basic tests to validate model robustness.
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Ocean energy
How much energy is available from waves and tides, and what prevents us from harvesting it?
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What’s mud got to do with it?
Reservoir sedimentation and dam removal using HEC-RAS (6.4 release) and other tools
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Let it flow, let it flow!
Introducing the 'Stage Zero' approach for geomorphological design and assessment of channels
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1D, 2D and 3D hydraulic modelling of bridges
Modelling bridge crossings in 1D, 2D and 3D: challenges and uncertainties
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Escape from the concrete jungle
Join us for a discussion of river restoration projects that have been undertaken in urban settings, including both successes and failures
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Panel Event: Drowning in plastics
A special panel discussion to meet filmmakers, activists, and scientists who are trying to keep plastics out of waterways and clean up our waste
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Something’s fishy, part 2
We continue our exploration of fish passage hydraulics with Part 2 dedicated to Australian species
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Fitting the Curve
Finding the best fit for flood frequency analyses