WHAT’S NEW ON IBER
Iber is a two-dimensional software
for the simulation of free surface
flow, morphodynamics, transport
processes (water quality) and habitat
in rivers and estuaries.
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INTRODUCTION
Iber is being enhanced day by day with the introduction of new
calculation parameters and friendlier interfaces, in order to offer a
mayor of possibilities in the field of numerical modelling in hydraulics,
hydrology and eco-hydraulics
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 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)
 IBER 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

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

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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

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  New tool for pre- and post-
processing (geometry from
points, topography options, IBER 2.4.1 (09/01/2017)
export results, etc.) Bug report:

 Correction in the writing of the result "Piezometric height"

Bugs report:  Losses in Lid tool has been corrected
 Consideration of “Critical diameter” even when the Transport
 Do not overtop Qmax in rating
Module is not enabled
curves
 “Depth vector” result corrected
 Some bugs in lid calculation
 Do not collapse when Encroachment option was implemented
options have been corrected
 Uninstall option 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

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 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:

 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

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 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)

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

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 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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