Version 2.8.0

• Software environment updated for Windows 10 - 64 bit
• Update to latest 3rd party libraries

New Features

• Vegetation model
  
• User defined hiding_exponent also available for Parker formula
• Colorblind friendly GUI
• Ashida and Michiue transport formula (non-uniform sediment)
• Output timestep matches exactly given intervall
  
• OpenMP parallelization revised

Bugfixes

• Wilcock and Crowe bug fixes
• output_time_step and restart_time_step
  

NOTE: Implicit scheme for time integration not available in v2.8. Please refer to v2.7 for implicit time integration calculation.

New Features

• Initial state for suspended load transport (mixture and concentration) can be defined with global values instead of providing a file with initial state for every cross section
• Water depth and Froude number are available as output (including the tracking of minimum and maximum values)
• Simple upwind approach for suspended load transport available
• Inner boundaries improved and extended (weir/gate)

Bug-fixes

• Matlab output fixed and optimised
• Sediment exchange between suspended load and bed load with “shear stress” approch
  
• Mass conservation in dual-mode sediment transport (combination of bed load and suspended load) improved
  
• Mass conservation with QUICKEST scheme improved

New Features

• Vegetation model: new BLOCK and all related features added
• Dynamic slope available for ‘hqrelation’ (uniform flow) at downstream boundary with the same slope adjustment as at the upstream ‘hydrograph’ boundary (due to erosion/deposition)
• Definition of control_volume_thickness over the material index with new tag control_volume_thickness_index
• INNER Boundary Conditions for MORPHOLOGY (BEDLOAD): “open” and “weir” type
• Suspended load exchange term: exchange_type= shear_stress and additional parameters: tk, factor_m and factor_n
• Generation of the sediment grid parallelized

Bug-fixes

• Possible to get the output value ‘saturation’ without BASESUB-block
• string_def output of flow velocity and improvement of the averaged velocity weighted by wetted area of relevant edges
• INNER GATE and WEIR in BASEplane reviewed