WHAT’S NEW ON IBER INTRODUCTION
Iber is a two-dimensional software Iber is being enhanced day by day with the introduction of new
for the simulation of free surface calculation parameters and friendlier interfaces, in order to offer a
flow, morphodynamics, transport mayor of possibilities in the field of numerical modelling in hydraulics,
processes (water quality) and habitat hydrology and eco-hydraulics
in rivers and estuaries.
The interest of the Team Iber to improve and introduce new
calculation modules and tools, as well as the feedback with the users
of the software through the website www.iberaula.com and
www.ibercursos.com, has allowed to develop the new versions of Iber.
This document shows the last changes of the latest versions of Iber,
and also a record of the changes done in older versions.
RECORD
Iber versions since v2.0:
Iber v3.3.0 – (30/05/2023)
Iber v3.2.2 – (18/01/2023)
Iber v3.2 – (17/10/2022)
Iber v3.1 – (03/12/2021)
Iber v2.6 – (05/10/2020)
Iber v2.5.2 – (03/02/2020)
Iber v2.5.1 – (24/09/2019)
Iber v2.5 – (21/01/2019)
Iber v2.4.3 – (18/04/2017)
Iber v2.4.2 – (10/02/2017)
Iber v2.4.1 – (09/01/2017)
Iber v2.4 – (10/10/2016)
Iber v2.3.2 – (02/12/2015)
Iber v2.3.1 – (29/06/2015)
Iber v2.3 – (18/05/2015)
Iber v2.2 – (02/02/2015)
Iber v2.1 – (05/11/2014)
Iber v2.0.3 – (04/07/2014)
Iber v2.0.2 – (22/04/2014)
Iber v2.0.1 – (09/12/2013)
Iber v2.0 – (18/11/2013)
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IBER 3.3.0 (30/05/2023)
What’s new from v3.2.2 to v3.3.0:
New module Iber-SWMM for urban drainage.
New methodology for calculating encroachment.
Damage curves added for flood risk assessment.
Improvements in Habitat module (new habitat criteria and
suitability curves).
Bugs report and improvements:
Bug in internal conditions when calculating walls.
Minor correction in culverts.
Some translations into Spanish corrected.
New method to calculate suspended sediment transport.
Breach options optimized.
Reports option added for automatically extraction of results from
Gauges.
Some improvements in Water Quality module (initial conditions).
Stepped discharge boundary condition modified in accordance
to new flood risk assessment options.
Code reorganized and optimized.
IBER 3.2.2 (17/10/2022)
What’s new from v3.2.1 to v3.2.2:
Inlet and outlet of culverts are linked to several mesh elements
to improve stability when culvert area is much larger than the
area of the mesh elements.
Ascii restuls file Erosion.rep is written when Soil Erosion module
is activated.
Lids can be calculated with IberPlus.
Soil Erosion module can be calculated with IberPlus.
Bugs report and improvements:
DTM, infiltration, land use and soil erosion parameters assigned
by raster files are not assigned to elements in blocked layers.
When choosing Mobile Gate in the Internal conditions window,
Num. gate table is equal to 1 by default (instead of 0).
Bug when choosing Simulation Resume is solved.
Bug when writing Iber_Internal_cond.dat for the condition Data
>> Hydrodynamics >> Structures >> Bridge is solved.
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Bug when selecting Hydrograph as inlet condition and Given level
as outlet condition with IberPlus is solved.
Depth Vector can be activated with IberPlus.
Land uses defined in IBER.mat have always an underscore
between two words (instead of space).
IBER 3.1 (03/12/2021)
What’s new from v2.6 to v3.1:
Restructuration of the main interface. Current version shows, by
default, only the hydraulic module. Additional calculation
modules and other capabilities, such us parallelization (GPU), has
to be activated in Plug-ins. Users are allowed to activate only
compatible modules and additional capabilities.
New GPU parallelization of the code based on Fortran-CUDA
entitled ‘R-Iber’. This version is compatible with the Sediment
Transport and Habitat modules.
Hydrological processes module has been restructured and
improved with new capabilities. Now, hyetographs can be
implemented isolated, as Thyessen polygon and over specific
surfaces. Losses can be implemented manually, automatically
through raster map or by zones and, additionally, the main
parameters of each losses formula can be multiplied by a factor.
Two new submodules for groundwater flow and soil water stress
simulations.
Sediment transport module has been restructured and improved
by incorporating a new submodule for bedload which is able to
simulate non-uniform granulometries. Rock position can be
assigned manually or by a raster. Ashida&Muchiue bedload
transport formula added. Possibility of considerer or not the
Einstein partition when solving the bedload transport equations.
New module for simulating Soil Erosion processes has been
included into Iber package. This module is able to assess the soil
production and transportation in catchments.
New module for simulating Urban Drainage processes has been
included into Iber package. This module is able to assess the dual
urban drainage, integrating hydrological and hydraulic processes
in urban areas.
Bugs report and improvements:
Results tab has been re-organized grouping results by topic.
Flood hazard according to RD 9/2008 and ACA 2003 have been
split, and custom hazard has been included herein. New
possibility of write plain results on specific location (‘Gauges’).
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New method to simulate pressure flow named ‘TPA’ (Two-
Component Pressure Approach). Now, lids are assigned as a
surface condition and the must be activate is Problem Data.
Culverts and Breaches can be now considered or not for
calculation. Breach and encroachment options are grouped and
organized in a unique menu (Iber Tools).
Some bugs fixed for LAStoDTM add-on.
Appearance of several windows homogenised.
Bug when opening ‘Information process’ through the shortcut
solved.
Results to raster tool improved. Now it is faster and more
efficient, and it is able to export current results, on a specific time
step or all of them.
Bug on Land uses automatic assignation when reading ‘No-data
value’ solved.
Bugs in the interface when drawing conditions by colours and
when importing GDAL are solved.
IBER 2.6 (05/10/2020)
What’s new from v2.5.2 to v2.6:
Water Quality module has been restructured. Now, all
atmospheric variables can be implemented spatially and
temporally distributed, and it must be only assigned once
New pollutants in Water Quality module (Phosphorus,
Phytoplankton, pH and Metals)
New implementations in the Hydrological module. Now the user
can implement the infiltration processes spatially distributed by
raster files (SCS, Lineal model and Green&Ampt)
New tool for converting LAZ files into DTM raster files (based on
Spanish Geographical Institute protocols), but also for converting
LAZ into LAS files
This version of Iber is also available for Linux OS
Bugs report and improvements:
Some improvements and bug corrections in Habitat module.
Some improvements in mesh edition (Set Height Constant).
New renumber tool, more efficient and robust and providing
faster calculationsIber 2.5.2 (03/02/2020)
Bugs report and improvements:
Corrections on the “Given level” inlet condition-type
Some bugs in the “Energy” as a result that do not allowed to run
the simulation when it was enabled
Some corrections in the translation
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IBER 2.5.1 (24/09/2019)
What’s new from v2.5 to v2.5.1:
New structure in the result files. Now the results are written
directly on the Gauss points (NOTE: older versions with mixed
meshes [triangles and quadrilaterals] must be re-calculated
before exporting results to raster)
The Results to Raster tool has been restructured. Now the raster
files are written in a more efficient and faster way (NOTE: older
versions with mixed meshes [triangles and quadrilaterals] must
be re-calculated before exporting to raster)
New tool for mesh editing elevation by height
New formula for bed sediment transport (Recking)
Bugs report and improvements:
Some corrections at automatic land use assignation
Corrections on the “Encroachment” view results (did not affect
the calculation process)
Some bugs in “Inlet num” corrected
Internal and boundary conditions have been re-written in a more
efficient way, avoiding some instability problems
IberHABITAT did not work because “substrate” was not was not
properly activated
A bug in the Results to Raster tool has been fixed
Some corrections at names of the results
Some corrections at unexpected end of calculation process (now
the results are always written)
Lids were corrected for no calculating when the bottom elevation
of the lid is lower than the terrain
The DTM importation window allows now to retrieve more file
extensions (*.adf, *.tif, *.png, *.gif, *jpg…) in addition to *.asc and
*.txt ASCII files
IBER 2.5 (21/01/2019)
What’s new from v2.4.3 to v2.5:
New pre- and post- toolbar
New module IberHABITAT has been included into Iber pack. This
module is able to assess fish habitat
New IberPlus GPU-CUDA beta version. This plug-in is currently in
beta version.
New inlet condition: Stepped discharge
New internal condition: Mobile gates
New tool for pre- and post-processing (geometry from points,
topography options, export results, etc.)
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Bugs report:
Do not overtop Qmax in rating curves
Some bugs in lid calculation options have been corrected
Bedload transport secondary results have been corrected
Do not collapse when Encroachment option was implemented
Some corrections at hydrology module (CN)
Some corrections at inlet/outlet discharge writing
IBER 2.4.3 (18/04/2017)
Bug report:
Some bugs at Sediment transport module has been corrected
Rain raster reading bug corrected
IBER 2.4.2 (10/02/2017)
Bug report:
SCS CN infiltration method corrected to be used as non-
infiltration (CN = 100)
Rain raster reading bug corrected when the raster was too big
Consideration of gates and weirs as barriers also for Sediment
Transport module
IBER 2.4.1 (09/01/2017)
Bug report:
Correction in the writing of the result "Piezometric height"
Losses in Lid tool has been corrected
Consideration of “Critical diameter” even when the Transport
Module is not enabled
“Depth vector” result corrected
Do not collapse when Encroachment option was implemented
Uninstall option corrected
IBER 2.4 (10/10/2016)
What’s new from v2.3.2 to v2.4:
Internal conditions were considered now in the Sediment
Transport module
Possibility to indicate the density of the sediments
“Critical diameter” result calculated depending on the Sediment
Transport equation chosen
Sediment Transport subroutine has been re-organized
Bug report:
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Correction in the “Erosion” result writing
IBER 2.3.2 (02/12/2015)
What’s new from v2.3.2 to v2.3.1:
Baroclinic pressure term in the hydrodynamic equations was
added
Coriolis effect term in the hydrodynamic equations was added
Implemented default values for Water Quality module
(OD=ODsat; T = 20 ºC; salinity = 0 g/l)
Bug report:
Some correction at Gate tool
Some improvements and corrections at boundary condition
(given level and critical depth)
IBER 2.3.2 (29/06/2015)
What’s new from v2.3.1 to v2.3:
Memory used for project was increased
Bug report:
Some bugs in Culvert tool were corrected
IBER 2.3 (18/05/2015)
What’s new from v2.2 to v2.3:
New Water Quality module which includes Salinity, Temperature,
Escherichia Coli, Dissolved Oxygen, DBO, Nitrogen as variables
New DHD numerical scheme implemented for hydrological
calculations
New Sediment Transport equations for bed load (Engelund-
Hansen and Engelund-Fredsoe)
Culverts result file re-written
IBER 2.2 (02/02/2015)
What’s new from v2.1 to v2.2:
New script for DTM importation
New option for Hydrological module: hyetograms by tables
Hydrographs written at Q_hydrographs.rep
Rainfall and infiltration time series written at
Hydrology_timeseries.rep
IBER 2.1 (05/1/2014)
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What’s new from v2.0 to v2.1:
User-friendly implementations for Breach definition tool
Possibility to create the mesh directly from RTIN tool
Levees and Bridges can be defined also in quadrilateral meshes
New Personalized hazard table to analyse user-defined hazard
properties
New Hazard results (RD9/2008)
New tools for Hydrology module: read of rain rasters
Some improvements in the interface and calculation modules
IBER 2.0 (18/11/2013)
What’s new from v1.9 to v2.0:
New option at Breach module
New structures implementation over mesh (bridges and levees)
New internal condition: Sources and Sinks
New interface for Culvert tool
New boundary condition for Sediment Transport module: solid –
liquid discharge rate
New tool at post-process to plot graphs in XSections and profiles
Dry model by default (h = 0m)
New improvement to mesh RTIN geometries
New results for Hazard analysis
New implementations for Lid tools
New boundary condition: rating curve (Total discharge)
Some improvements in the interface and calculation modules
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