MIKE 11

Purpose: Model flows in different types of water bodies
Developer: Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI)
Key Features: GIS capabilities; sediment transport; water quality analysis; Open MI Interface
Latest Release: 2014
OS Platform: Windows
Cost: Perpetual license
Related Software: HEC-RAS, Flood Modeller, SOBEK
Website: MIKE 11 information

Introduction

MIKE 11, first released in XXX, is a model that simulates water flows levels, water quality, and sediment transport in rivers, flood plains, irrigation canals, and reservoirs. MIKE 11 includes components for rainfall-runoff modeling, hydrodynamic modeling, hydraulic structure operations, and sediment transport and water quality modeling, with calculations conducted under unsteady or quasi steady state. MIKE 11 can be used for a wide variety of applications, including real-time flood forecasting, flood studies, dam break analysis, optimization of reservoir/canal operations, and sediment transport, water quality and ecological modeling. Although applications are of multidimensional nature, the software's solutions involve one-dimensional calculations.

Key features of the MIKE 11 model include a Graphical User Interface (GUI), result reporting tools, GIS capabilities, auto calibration, and control structure operations. The software is open MI complaint and is linkable to other MIKE modules.

Advantages and Limitations

Advantages Limitations
  • Used extensively around the world
  • Auto calibration option
  • Detailed technical report and users' manual
  • Availability of training and customer support via vendor
  • Open MI compliant and linkable to other MIKE software tools
  • 2D effects such as cross-channel momentum are not possible
  • Model assumes channel bed slope is negligible
  • Tiered-based pricing
  • Hydraulic structures can’t be sufficiently skewed
  • Does not account for urban drainage

Illustrative Screens

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Output

Sample Applications

Africa East Asia and the Pacific Europe & Central Asia Latin America & the Caribbean Middle East and North Africa South Asia
Simulation of organic carbon loading in River Nzoia, Kenya Optimal operation of the Hoa Binh reservoir, Vietnam Flow forecasting in Tunuyan basin, Argentina
Real-time inflow forecasts, Chile 		Flood forecasting in Bagmati Basin, Nepal

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