Water Simulation

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BOSS International released two updates:
Multiple River Reaches in RiverCAD XP

RiverCAD XP now fully supports multiple river reaches allowing you to model dendritic river networks. RiverCAD XP fully integrates with LDD and Civil3D software.
RiverCAD XP for AutoCAD is a sophisticated river modeling software that completely automates HEC-RAS and HEC-2 within AutoCAD. Its slick GUI interface [...]

optiUnits (beta) is a freeware tool that will allow the user to convert an EPANet model from one set of units to a different one.

Usage:

Export your model from EPANet to an INP file.
Run optiUnits.
Click the File button and select the INP file.
From the drop-down box, select the unit set that you want to convert [...]

MathWorks, the makers of Matlab, released a new product that models and simulate hydraulic systems – SimHydraulics.
SimHydraulics extends Simulink with tools for modeling and simulating hydraulic power and control systems. It enables you to describe multidomain systems containing connected hydraulic and mechanical components as physical networks. It provides a representative library of hydraulic components and [...]

I have been looking at the statistics of this web site and found the most common keywords that people are using in their search engine searches. Here are the top 15 keyphrases used on search engines:

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To those of you interested in Centrifugal Pumps please have a look at the new Centrifugal Pumps blog.
The new site will post news and information about centrifugal pump collected from the web.

From Wallingford Software press release:
Wallingford Software announces that the next release of its flagship wastewater network management solution, InfoWorks CS v7.5, adds a powerful new capability for those seeking to accurately model overland urban flooding. This new feature, available this summer, produces flood mapping to represent flood depths and area of spread across the [...]

Bentley announced the new features of WaterGEMS and WaterCad that will be available in the new version – V8. The official release date is scheduled for the second quarter, 2006.

MicroStation platform
All-inclusive ArcMap interface
Geodatabase integration
TRex – Terrain Extraction
Tool to find and fix network topology and connectivity issues
Query-based selection sets
Copy/Paste support from external sources
Globally manage simple, composite, [...]

Manuel López-Ibáñez, who adapted the EPANET Toolkit version 2.00.10 to GNU/Linux, posted a note that it is possible to run the EPANET GUI in Linux.
This is done be using the GNU/Linux program called Wine HQ that can run Win32 executable files in Linux (and maybe in FreeBSD and SUN’s Solaris).
Please, check Wine documentation for more [...]

CHECK-RAS, Version 1.4, is a program designed to verify the validity of an assortment of parameters found in the HEC-RAS hydraulic modeling program. This program can only be installed on computers with Windows 98/NT/2000/XP operating systems.
CHECK-RAS is available at FEMA web site.