The IBER Programme is a freely available programme that is essential for the accurate calculation of flood zones in Spain, as well as providing the necessary data for other hydraulic studies.
Among the main new features of version 3.0 is its greater calculation capacity, which allows the simulation of urban environments or sediment transport with the aim of improving flood risk management.
Teams from the Flumen and CIMNE Institutes, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the GEAMA group of the University of A Coruña and the Hydraulics Laboratory of the CEDEX, as well as other universities that have been involved in its development, all with the support of the MITECO, have been involved in improving the tool.
The main new features of version 3.0 of the programme include the creation of two new modules, as well as improvements in the existing ones and the updating of the interface, which extends the existing calculation and simulation capacity.
The new features presented on November are grouped into 5 lines:
- New urban drainage module. Thanks to the integration of the simulation of the flow in subsoil sewerage networks and surface flow, it has been possible to incorporate a dual calculation that will be fundamental for the calculation of pluvial flooding in urban areas.
- New soil erosion module. With this new module it is possible to determine the areas where soil erosion has occurred in a catchment, quantify the erosion, its transport and deposition.
- Improvement of the module for sediment transport. It incorporates the functionality to work with sediment mixtures and, together with the previous module, is essential to address the sediment management required by legislation.
- Improvement of the hydrological simulation module. From now on IBER can be used as a distributed hydrological model, allowing hydrological and hydraulic simulation to be tackled in an integrated manner.
- Improved operability. IBER 3.0 allows the use of computation on graphic cards, notably reducing calculation times.
Free download from http://iberaula.com.