Where reliability and innovation meet

Download MIKE 2024

UPDATES AND IMPROVEMENTS

New features available in
MIKE Powered by DHI software

Explore the latest innovations designed to increase productivity, accuracy, and value.

Protect your investment and ensure optimal performance by downloading the latest version of MIKE software!

Have a valid Service Maintenance Agreement (SMA)? You’re entitled to an upgrade at no extra cost. How about a subscription? You’re already on the latest version – no action is required.

Key Features and Enhancements

November 2024

MIKE 2024

Download MIKE 2024
MIKE+ Model Manager
Display BIM (Building Information Modeling) data on map view

MIKE+ – Redesigned profile plots

Redesigned Profile Plots
  • Data displayed in table format for improved readability
  • User control over row order, fonts, colors, and text direction
  • Export profile plot data to text files for Rivers and Collection system models, in addition to Water Distribution models
  • To learn more, see Export to text file and Profile plot tools
Enhanced Versions Management Tool
  • Improved database comparison performance.
  • Added data filtering for focused and efficient comparisons.
  • To learn more, see Compare tool
Introducing Python Scripting library for MIKE+ models and database
  • Enables reading and writing SQLite database
  • Provides tools like import, topology repair, interpolation, and connection repair
  • Supports MIKE IO and MIKE IO 1D
  • Easily accessible via ‘pip’
MIKE+ Collection Systems
New tool for creating elevation zones
  • Designed for Rainfall-runoff models with the RDI method and snow melt considerations
  • Automatically splits catchment into specified elevation zones using DEM data
  • To learn more, see Create elevation zones from DEM tool
Extension of the land use method for catchments
  • Catchment processing now derives the fractions of a catchment covered by background polygon layers and assigns land uses accordingly.
  • When using RDI, the land use table in the catchment editor accepts RDI parameter sets as input too.
  • To learn more, see Model setup and Land use layers
  • We also encourage you to watch the Hydrology On-Demand Webinar (from 25:44 to 39:26)
Integrate seasonal groundwater data from MIKE SHE for inflow and infiltration analysis
  • Improve understanding of seasonal groundwater dynamics
  • Make informed decisions for sustainable and resilient infrastructure operations
  • To learn more, see Flooding
MIKE+ Water Distribution

MIKE+ – Zone water balance map and editor

New Zone Water Balance feature
  • Calculate water balance for defined zones with measured time series (See Water balance)
  • New ‘Compute zone demand and leakage’ tool estimates average demand and leakage (See Compute zone demand and leakage tool)
  • ‘Distributed demands’ tool populates demands in nodes or pipes for simulations
  • ‘Create time patterns’ generates daily or weekly demand patterns based on measured data, saving time on manual tasks. (See Create time patterns tool)
Introducing VSD pump control based on link flow
  • Complements existing pressure and water level control types
  • Set control point as constant or time variable
  • To learn more, see Control type
MIKE+ 2D Overland
New Create Flood Maps tool
  • Transforms raw flood result files into classified result polygons
  • Works with various result types, including flood hazard and current speed
  • Includes filters to simplify the map, saving users time compared to manual GIS processing.
  • To learn more, see Create flood maps tool
Direct TIFF file support for 2D interpolation
  • Eliminates the need to convert TIFF files to dfs2 format for elevation assignment to 2D meshes.
Read the MIKE+ Release Notes
Watch the on-demand webinar, ‘MIKE 2024 Release – What’s new in Cities’
Explore additional MIKE+ training options
MIKE WaterNet Advisor

MIKE WaterNet Advisor – Power & energy reporting

Automatic reporting of system performance indicators in the hydraulic engine
  • Includes metrics like average pressure, natural input energy, pump power energy, energy delivered to users, energy dissipated, shaft energy per volume, excess of supplied energy, network efficiency, and standard energy compliance.
Redesigned WD online module
  • Direct compatibility with MIKE+ model database in SQLite format
  • Improved performance
  • Seamless integration of online models with standard (offline) models in MIKE+
  • No data conversion or loss when opening online models in MIKE+
WEST
Enhance your activated sludge management for optimal performance (watch the video)
  • Seamlessly take tanks offline for maintenance or dynamic conditions
  • Sequentially empty and fill tanks for precision and workflow optimisation
  • Ensure numerical stability and accurate results
  • Try our demo project to master activated sludge management

WEST – Evaporation Modelling

Boost your evaporation modelling capabilities with Penman-Monteith precision (watch the video)
  • Utilise the Penman-Monteith evaporation model in IUWS (1, 2, and 3) instances
  • Based on the UN FAO equation for potential evapotranspiration (ETo)
  • Ensures higher accuracy in simulations
  • Recommended for ETo calculations
  • Try our demo project to master this powerful tool.
Categorise and manage simulation runs with new folder options (watch the video)
  • Easily organise runs in separate folders when saving or loading snapshots
  • Receive compatibility notifications when browsing folders
  • Save multiple sets of results per project for greater flexibility and comparison.

WEST – Integrated Micropollutant Library

New integrated library for micropollutants (watch the video)
  • Simulate the occurrence and fate of micropollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, from catchments to wastewater treatment plants
  • Model micropollutant discharges from households and industries
  • Predict micropollutant fate and removal in various treatment processes
  • Determine preferential removal mechanisms
  • Try out demo project to further explore this new library
Read the WEST Release Notes
Watch the on-demand webinar, ‘MIKE 2024 Release – What’s new in Cities’
Explore additional MIKE WaterNet Advisor and WEST training options
FEFLOW
Enhanced Well Manager Editor (watch the video)
  • Group diverse well types, be it water or geothermal, for streamlined operations
  • Conveniently test and apply rules to well groups
  • Handle the wells within groups and apply rules

FEFLOW – Geothermal Extension in Well Manager

Geothermal extension in Well Manager (watch the video)
  • Working on low enthalpy geothermal? Use the Geothermal extension of the Well Manager for creating open-loop and closed-loop systems
  • The ‘Closed-Loop’ rule enables rapid interconnection of 100+ BHEs with unparalleled ease
New Well Manager rules (watch the video)
  • ‘Inactive Wells’ rule enables hassle-free deactivation while retaining data integrity
  • ‘Shared Properties’ rule simplifys property changes across multiple wells to ensure consistency
  • ‘Distributed Rate’ rule allocates rates equally among wells for optimal performance
Revamped Observation Point Dialogue and centralised user interface
  • All model outputs needed for calibrate and valiate your work has been consolidated into one location
  • Seamlessly manage budget groups and effectively track flow rates in various contexts such as pits and rivers
  • Content group management to track mineral mass within specified volumes
  • Multiple reference curves enable more nuanced analysis and insights for your model

FEFLOW – Python Interface for Supermesh

FEFLOW Python interface for Supermesh (watch the video)
  • Generate 2D and 3D meshes using an extended Python interface
  • Access mesh generators and interpolation methods directly from scripts
  • Efficiently test and evaluate new conceptual models while allowing for variations in geometry and discretisation
New Cross-Section Generator within the Python Interface
  • Extract 2D meshes from existing 3D models
  • Simplify your workflows and enhance presentations and reports
New DXF/DWG format support
  • Directly access and interpret DXF and DWG files within the application environment
  • Bridge hydrogeological insights and CAD design data

FEFLOW – 3D Supermesh Editing Tools

New 3D editing tools in FEFLOW Supermeshes (watch the video)
  • Create 3D domains from a single surface
  • Achieve precise geometry editing with the new 3D snapping feature
  • Easily repair or remesh Supermesh using FEFLOW Advanced
  • New export feature eliminates the need to redo meshing.
  • Decrease reliance on third-party software
Major Qt version upgrade
  • Smoother graphical operations
  • Enhanced system stability and reliability to reduce potential issues
Read the FEFLOW Release Notes
Watch the on-demand webinar, ‘MIKE 2024 Release – What’s new in FEFLOW’
Explore additional FEFLOW training options

MIKE SHE
Introducing a new water quality modelling option for floodplains
  • Model water quality alongside floodplain inundation using flood codes
  • Enable solute exchange between flood code cells, overland flow, and groundwater (saturated zone)
More accurately analyse inflow and infiltration by integrating seasonal groundwater data from MIKE SHE
  • Gain a more comprehensive understanding of how seasonal groundwater dynamics impact your systems
  • Make informed decisions to ensure sustainable and resilient infrastructure operations by considering seasonal variations in inflow and infiltration
MIKE 21 and MIKE 3
Enhanced hydrodynamic calculations in MIKE 21/3 Flow Models FM
  • The stability of both higher order and low order schemes has been improved in areas of flooding and drying. This is particularly beneficial for three-dimensional simulations.
  • The accuracy and stability of our fast low order scheme has been significantly improved where steep gradients are present. Resulting velocities along riverbanks and underwater channels now compare well with our more accurate higher order scheme.
  • The performance of our GPU solvers has been improved for simulations including infrastructure features and flow dependent bed resistance.
Improved advection-dispersion calculations
  • The accuracy of our advection-dispersion scheme has been improved with an upgraded discretisation of the diffusion terms.
MIKE ECO Lab
New and improved MIKE ECO Lab template creation workflows
  • Easily create new templates from existing models using drag-and-drop functionality in the MIKE ECO Lab graphical user interface.
  • Export model components to create a library of building blocks for new templates.
  • Model complex feedback loops with new 3-way coupling of hydrodynamics and heat transport.
  • Benefit from enhanced MIKE ECO Lab plug-in interface and extended Oil Spill templates on Linux.
Mud Transport module
Extended feature set and scientific enhancements
  • Improved hotstart functionality using layer and fraction distribution as initial conditions.
  • New options for erosion calculations including a new RMS shear stress formulation and specification of critical shear stress for each individual fraction.
  • New spilling types for dredging simulations.
  • New and improved outputs including extended output of mean velocity, bed distribution items, and three-dimensional bed parameters output.
  • Substantial refactoring and modernisation for improved performance and accuracy.
Sand Transport and Littoral Processes FM modules
New sand transport and beach process functionality
  • For two and three-dimensional sand transport calculations, an extended Engelund & Fredsøe bed load formula has been added to better consider slope effects.
  • The Littoral Processes FM graphical user interface has been improved in respect of file selection, validation and viewing.
Read the MIKE 21 and MIKE 3 Release Notes
Watch the on-demand webinar, ‘MIKE 2024 Release – What’s new in Marine & Coastal’
Explore additional MIKE 21 and MIKE 3 training options
MIKE OPERATIONS
Script Manager integration with GitHub
  • Native support for GitHub scripts (editing, running, debugging)
  • No need to import scripts to the database
  • Reusable scripts across projects with version control
  • Run GitHub scripts in Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, or Spyder
  • Run CPython scripts with DHI Cloud Platform job service
  • Schedule and execute CPython scripts from MIKE OPERATIONS Job Manager
  • MIKE WORKBENCH upgraded to Python 3 for improved security and design
Temporal feature classes in GIS Manager
  • Support for storing and visualising multiple time steps
  • Store relevant model outputs efficiently (e.g., contours, time-varying flood contours)
  • Reduced data storage requirements
  • Option to avoid storing complete 2D results for each simulation
  • Enhanced efficiency for web applications compared to using dfs2 and dfsu files for visualisation
FEFLOW adaptor improvements
  • Support for multi-layer wells
  • Contour line outputs
  • Additional spatial outputs (concentration, well type, node selection, LCE, Slice number)
Read the MIKE OPERATIONS Release Notes
Watch the on-demand webinar, ‘MIKE 2024 Release – What’s new in Water Resources’
Explore additional MIKE OPERATIONS training options

MIKE Zero
MIKE Zero workflow improvements
  • MIKE Zero editors and viewers now include MapTiler’s online background maps to support model creation and results visualisation
  • New Mesh Manager tool for mesh filtering and refinement
  • New option to use GeoTIFF files in Mesh Generator
  • Performance of the Frequency Response Calculator for MIKE 21 Mooring Analysis has been improved
  • Enhanced isoline functionality allows users to export as Shape files and xyz files
  • Copy spatial extents between Data Viewer pages with [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C]/[V]
  • More MIKE engines are now supported in MzLaunch
  • Inundation output items now include Flux items

May 2023

MIKE 2023 Update 1

Download MIKE 2023 Update 1
MIKE+ Model Manager
Save your results layout without needing to open a database
  • Easily view, analyse, save, and re-open your model results, all on a user-friendly platform that simplifies the process
  • Maximise your productivity by utilising MIKE+’s convenient feature to retain your model results’ presentation layout and symbology for future reference
MIKE+ Collection Systems
Create your own user-defined columns for more custom results analysis
  • Simplify your workflow by conveniently viewing model results alongside your input data within the same editors.
  • Achieve optimal pipe network characteristics by easily adjusting them based on specific criteria in the results while simultaneously editing input data and viewing the results
  • Eliminate the hassle of searching for matching data (e.g., pipes) between two separate tables, as previously required
Unleash the full potential of RDI hydrological modelling with advanced new options
  • Explore snowmelt effects and irrigation impacts using elevation zones
  • Enhance your understanding of river behavior and precipitation
Experience increased flexibility in catchment modeling with the new option to specify infiltration per land use
  • Enjoy more control over your catchment modeling with the ability to define multiple types of land uses in each catchment and customize loss/infiltration settings
  • Effortlessly model catchments with greater precision and accuracy thanks to the new catchment modeling options in MIKE+
Improve the accuracy of your catchments modelling with the new option for rainfall interpolation from stations
  • Experience more realistic and precise modelling results, as the new catchments modelling option offers interpolation in space for rainfall intensities from rain gauges
  • Avoid abrupt changes in rainfall intensities between different zones
  • Benefit from more gradual rainfall intensity distribution than the previous uniform values approach
MIKE+ Water Distribution
Improve accuracy using the new, fully optimised Water Distribution Autocalibration module (watch the video)
  • Take advantage of a new special analysis Water Distribution Autocalibration module designed to optimise your main model parameters for automatic calibration against measured data
  • Rely on evolutionary algorithms to find the best settings for pipe friction coefficients, locate closed isolating valves within the water distribution network, adjust water consumptions, and find point leakages.
  • Achieve a better match between observed data and simulated model results by using autocalibration, which can assist you in the model calibration process and/or help to improve the accuracy of your results.
Effortlessly manage your water distribution simple control logic all in one place
  • Maximise efficiency by accessing all simple controls defined on your pipe networks via a comprehensive table
  • Stay on top of simple controls across your entire pipe network, whether applied to pipes, pumps, or other elements, with a new, easy-to-use editor
Create your own user-defined columns for more custom results analysis
  • Simplify your workflow by conveniently viewing model results alongside your input data within the same editors.
  • Achieve optimal pipe network characteristics by easily adjusting them based on specific criteria in the results while simultaneously editing input data and viewing the results.
  • Eliminate the hassle of searching for matching data (e.g., pipes) between two separate tables, as previously required.
MIKE+ 2D Overland
Transform data analysis with a cutting-edge Cross-Section Tool designed for advanced 2D visualisation
  • Effortlessly draw a vertical cross-section view of your 2D data within MIKE+ 2D Overland domain or other DEM.
  • Confidently verify the accuracy of your 2D domain file’s resolution to properly represent finer-scale topographical features like dikes.
  • Gain a better understanding of topographical changes with the Cross-Section tool’s vertical view, which allows you to visualize changes in elevation more clearly than a standard map’s horizontal view.
Accelerate data processing with MIKE+’s enhanced GPU performance for 2D Overland
  • Boost your data processing capabilities with MIKE+’s latest 2D Overland GPU improvements, which now enable the use of GPUs for infrastructures (buildings, roads) and Depth Average roughness calculations.
  • Effortlessly handle large datasets and complex simulations with the power of GPU processing.
MIKE+ Rivers
Boost your river management and restoration efforts with MIKE+’s advanced Sediment Transport module features (watch the video)
  • Accurately predict sediment dynamics in river systems for better river management and restoration using the advanced new features in the Sediment Transport module.
  • Consider factors like sediment size, flow velocity, and channel bed slope to model a wide range of sediment transport processes.
  • Simulate sediment movement, deposition, and erosion to assess the impact on river morphology, water quality, and aquatic habitats.
  • Gain insight into the complex interplay between sediment and river ecosystems.
  • Empower yourself to make informed decisions that enhance the health and sustainability of river systems.
View topographical changes along a river with external DEM cross sections in MIKE+ Rivers
  • Easily compare the latest topographical information from a new DEM to the existing river model to ensure representation of the new topography.
  • Get a comprehensive view of the river model and update it with new information if needed.
  • Improve the accuracy of your river model by integrating new cross sections from external DEMs
  • Benefit from a streamlined workflow that helps you update your river topography based on the latest data.
Enhance river modelling accuracy with a new option to set markers at intersections with polylines from a shape file in MIKE+ Rivers
  • Edit river cross sections and set markers more precisely using lines drawn on a map in any GIS product.
  • Save these lines in a shape file to indicate the exact location of riverbanks and apply different roughness/friction properties in the river bed and flood plain.
  • Improve your river modeling capabilities with the ability to use external data to inform your river cross section markers in MIKE+ Rivers.
Unleash the full potential of RDI hydrological modelling with advanced new options
  • Explore snowmelt effects and irrigation impacts using elevation zones
  • Enhance your understanding of river behavior and precipitation
Experience increased flexibility in catchment modeling with the new option to specify infiltration per land use
  • Enjoy more control over your catchment modeling with the ability to define multiple types of land uses in each catchment and customize loss/infiltration settings
  • Effortlessly model catchments with greater precision and accuracy thanks to the new catchment modeling options in MIKE+
Improve the accuracy of your catchments modelling with the new option for rainfall interpolation from stations
  • Experience more realistic and precise modelling results, as the new catchments modelling option offers interpolation in space for rainfall intensities from rain gauges
  • Avoid abrupt changes in rainfall intensities between different zones
  • Benefit from more gradual rainfall intensity distribution than the previous uniform values approach
MIKE+ SWMM
Create your own user-defined columns for more custom results analysis
  • Simplify your workflow by conveniently viewing model results alongside your input data within the same editors.
  • Achieve optimal pipe network characteristics by easily adjusting them based on specific criteria in the results while simultaneously editing input data and viewing the results.
  • Eliminate the hassle of searching for matching data (e.g., pipes) between two separate tables, as previously required.
Read MIKE+ Release Notes

FEFLOW

Enjoy a smoother and more intuitive modelling experience with new 3D Supermesh tools (watch the video)

  • Effortlessly create intricate 3D Supermeshes using a new set of interactive tools – 3D Point, 3D Polyline, 3D Plane, and 3D Bounding Box.
  • Seamlessly integrate geological faults into your 3D Supermeshes with the new 3D Supermesh Plane tool. With elevation, depth, and inclination angle values at your fingertips, you can effortlessly produce more accurate and detailed models.
  • Streamline your workflow by defining borehole traces directly from the FEFLOW GUI.

Improve your Supermesh projects with our latest update for 2D/3D modelling (watch the video)

  • Easily add new 2D/3D geometries to your existing Supermesh projects with the new ‘Add Supermesh Elements’ dialog, saving time and effort.
  • Increase efficiency by converting multiple maps into Supermesh Elements with just a few clicks.

Streamline your modelling workflow with the new 3D Mesh Generator (watch the video)

  • Save valuable time and effort with the extended FEFLOW Advanced module which now includes a new 3D Mesh Generator powered by Geode-Solutions.
  • Enjoy a seamless workflow with one single pipeline that covers 3D Supermesh repair, surface remesh, and 3D unstructured mesh.
  • Discover new possibilities with the ability to mesh previously unmesheable geologies using TetGen.

Access the powerful Well Manager directly through the Python interface (watch the video)

  • Easily create, edit, or delete any well configuration from Well BCs, Multilayer Wells, and Borehole Heat Exchangers.
  • Enjoy greater flexibility in creating wells using coordinates, snap distances, or 3D polylines directly from Python.
  • Quickly update well properties or change well types with ease, keeping your models accurate and up-to-date.

Read FEFLOW Release Notes

MIKE OPERATIONS
Improve your workflow with the enhanced Script Manager which now supports CPython
  • Reduce configuration time by taking advantage of the embedded common Python libraries in MIKE OPERATIONS.
  • Easily integrate MIKE OPERATIONS APIs and logic into your own scripts with the help of code snippets for all components in the UI (data, tools, etc.), saving you time and effort in the configuration process.
  • Boost script performance with extended APIs and new query tools.
Enhance decision-making by using your FEFLOW models in MIKE OPERATIONS
  • Make the most out of the FEFLOW Adapter’s improved support of relevant FEFLOW features for Decision Support Systems.
  • Improve your decision-making process in fields such as irrigation, mining, waste storage, and water quality.
Access global datasets instantly with MIKE OPERATIONS
  • Automatically import common global datasets, including rainfall forecasts, into MIKE Cloud.
  • With a valid MIKE Cloud account, users can easily access this data directly from MIKE OPERATIONS.
  • Reduce costs and save time by eliminating the need to develop and maintain data import scripts, as all necessary data is now readily available.
Read MIKE OPERATIONS Release Notes

November 2022

MIKE 2023

Download MIKE 2023
MIKE+ Model Manager
Ability to promote Child to Base in the Scenario Manager
  • Rely on a new option to more easily define your base scenario (i.e. default setup) from a set of alternative scenarios
  • Avoid having to keep and maintain other alternatives in the model setup
Import and export improvements
  • Automatically import user-defined columns from MIKE URBAN databases
  • Exclude existing records using a new import option
Improved results management
  • Our improved Versions Management and Results Differences tools can now compare the original pipes with merged pipes, despite the different IDs
  • Open 2D results on the results maps without opening the model database
MIKE+ Collection Systems
Support of Muskingum Routing after Network Simplification
  • Rely on a simplified new method for activating flow routing in catchment connections inclusive of delay and hydrograph attenuation for runoff entering the collection system network
  • Have confidence in the accuracy of your results knowing this method aims to compensate for the introduced error when trimming parts of the network
  • Avoid extra steps as this function will be activated automatically during the trimming operation, for all reconnected catchments
Ability to specify roughness for pipes and catchments using Manning’s n values
  • Users outside of Europe can more easily specify the roughness coefficients of pipes and canals, materials, catchments, parameters kinematic waves and LID editors using Manning’s n values
Ability to disable all model features
  • Improve efficiency when managing scenarios with the ability to activate/deactivate all assets (including catchments, load points, etc.) for the simulation
  • Allows users to display an unmodelled network and turn off one solution when testing various design options
‘Variable expression’ sensors
  • Define complex expressions using a new type of sensor
  • Save ‘variable expression’ sensors to the result file
Improved Versions Management tool
  • Save time not having to rebuild a simplified model after getting updated asset data
  • Our improved Versions Management tool can now compare the original pipes with merged pipes, despite the different IDs
Support for custom flow units for results
  • More easily control discharge units when inputting discharge values and visualising results for an improved user experience
  • Avoid the hassle of working with non-friendly values
MIKE+ Water Distribution
Miscellaneous improvements
  • Export Profile Plot data to a text file
  • Choose whether you’d like to exclude items from the simplification using the new Simplification tool filters
  • Connect demand allocations and measurement stations using the Connection tool – now available in MIKE+ Water Distribution
  • Optimise water networks based on energy consumption and water quality using new water quality, pump power, pump energy cost and pump speed targets
  • Automatically regulate the inflow into the storage tank based on the tank level using a new float valve
New ‘Compare’ option
  • Assess scenarios quickly and easily using the new ‘Compare’ option
  • Avoid having to use ArcGIS for post-processing with the ability to save the difference between two result files to a new file directly within MIKE+
MIKE+ 2D Overland
Support for custom flow units for results
  • More easily control discharge units when inputting discharge values and visualising results for an improved user experience
  • Avoid the hassle of working with non-friendly values
New ‘Compare’ option
  • Assess flood mitigation scenarios quickly and easily using the new ‘Compare’ option
  • Avoid having to use ArcGIS for post-processing with the ability to save the difference between two result files to a new file directly within MIKE+
MIKE+ Rivers
Migration of the remaining HD features from MIKE HYDRO River to MIKE+ Rivers (Tell me more)
  • Bring your old MIKE HYDRO River models into the MIKE+ platform for advanced visualisation and schematisation tools
  • Utilise the following former MIKE HYDRO River HD functionalities directly in MIKE+ Rivers:
  • Selection of local ‘Wave approximation’ definition
  • Variables
  • State files initial conditions and steady-state initial conditions
  • Compute Q/h table for Q/h boundary conditions
  • ‘Groundwater leakage’ boundary condition
  • Structure plots for culverts, weirs, gates, bridges (with US and DS cross sections)
  • River boundary conditions shown on map
  • Routing rivers and routing points
  • Tool to trace rivers from DEM
  • Updated ‘Catchment delineation’ tool to delineate catchments from DEM for rivers
  • ‘Combine tiles’ tool
  • ‘Interpolate resistance’ tool for cross-sections
  • Roughness (time-varying) factors and multiple zone definition of roughness
New tool to analyse network quality
  • Produce higher-quality models in less time with direct insight from the Network Analysis tool on the most critical locations of the network
  • Avoid wasting time trying to figure out problems on your own
Ability to couple MIKE+ models in MIKE SHE
  • Go beyond river modelling – better understand infiltration, rising groundwater and interaction with rivers by coupling your MIKE+ model in MIKE SHE
  • Consider the wider watershed and hydrological cycle in your catchment
New Automatic Calibration module for NAM/ RDI
  • Save time creating RDI models using the new Automatic Calibration module that allows users to find the best values for RDI parameters
Support for custom flow units for results
  • More easily control discharge units when inputting discharge values and visualising results for an improved user experience
  • Avoid the hassle of working with non-friendly values
MIKE+ SWMM
Ability to use SWMM runoff and interface files directly as input for MIKE 1D simulations
  • SWMM result files can now be used as input boundary condition files to read catchment runoff from a *.out file and read flows at SWMM outlets from a *.txt interface file
  • Apply a calibrated SWMM hydrology model as inflow to a MIKE 1D hydraulic network with mixed pipes and river channels and 2D overland flow
Read MIKE+ Release Notes
MIKE WaterNet Advisor
Critical nodes identification for vulnerability analysis of hydraulic networks
  • Effectively reduce network vulnerability using the new Node Reachability index which highlights and ranks the most vulnerable areas of the system
  • Identify and protect critical nodes in advance by evaluating the probability that a given node (end user) in the system is connected to at least one source
Extended System and Energy Reporting capabilities
  • Conduct more comprehensive system and energy audits and water supply reporting of your online models with MIKE WaterNet Advisor’s recently extended System and Energy Reporting
  • Better understand where energy is lost with access to a full suite of performance indicators including average system pressure, natural energy, pump energy, energy delivered to users, energy lost due to friction, dissipated energy, network energy efficiency and more
MIKE+ and MIKE WaterNet Advisor for online integration
  • Rely on a new user interface to more easily define all entries required for an online model build
  • Includes sensor mapping, definition of comparisons and histories, demand zones, pump and valve controls and demand prediction
New Demand Prediction module
  • Conduct more realistic hydraulic forecasts by estimating water consumption using machine learning and statistical methods
  • Apply demand prediction to system demands, zone flows, turnout flows and more
Model registration, presentation, fire flow modeling and online workflow improvements
  • Conduct more realistic fire flow simulations by modelling the hydrant as an orifice
  • Register your online models quickly and easily using a simplified workflow
  • Ensure adequate capacity to fight fires with fire flow analysis error and warning code reporting
  • No need to download the latest version with automatic program updates
  • Enhance your 1D collection systems model with advanced editing features
  • Quickly locate the models you are looking for using new filters
Read MIKE WaterNet Advisor Release Notes

WEST
Integrated Urban Water Systems (IUWS) library extensions
  • More accurately predict inflows and solids loading to WWTPs during both dry and wet weather conditions with access to new models
  • Perform integrated assessments of sewer systems, WWTPs and recipients using a new rainfall-derived infiltration and inflow model
  • Evaluate the impact of CSOs on recipient quality with a simplified catchment model for influent generation
  • Conduct influent forecasting in digital twin applications using a new Particle Size Velocity Distribution (PSVD) model
Dynamic KPI calculation
  • Evaluate the performance of a WWTP, in an easy and intuitive way, by dynamically calculating a set of key performance indicators (KPI’s) for energy use and recovery, resource use, and CO2 footprint
  • Rely on this information for energy audits and when ranking operational strategies
  • Compare energy, resource and cost efficiency in relation to other WWTPs
PFAS contaminant modelling
  • Rely on a new set of models to predict the fate and removal of PFAS in a WWTP, estimate levels in effluent and sludge and compare them with regulatory thresholds
  • Reduce risks by evaluating the impact of future source mitigation strategies (e.g., chemical phase-out) on the occurrence of PFAS and identify suitable reduction strategies
Model heat recovery from effluents using heat pumps
  • Describe the use of heat pumps in WWTPs for heat recovery from effluents using a new set of models (2 versions)
  • Quantify heat recovery potential under dynamic conditions (diurnal, seasonal temperature variations)
  • Determine the contribution of heat recovery to energy neutral and/or positive WWTP operation
  • Evaluate the feasibility of heat pump installations
Two new test cases
  • Rely on two new test cases to better understand how new models can be selected as well as typical realistic parameter sets
  • Explore how KPIs can be calculated with an extension of the whole plant model (mTwoASU Extended) which now includes an updated cost calculator with KPIs
  • See the use of the KOSIM extension with PFAS in action on a sewer-plant-river model with the new BSM2 with PFAS sample
WEST GUI improvements
  • Export simulation data from time series in plots without needing a dedicated File output channel
  • Save space with an improved equation editor page in the Model Editor
Read WEST Release Notes
FEFLOW
New workflow for 3D model creation (watch the video)
  • Automatically build 3D models (layered-based, partially-unstructured and fully-unstructured) from a 2D Supermesh
New 3D repairing and remeshing tools (watch the video)
  • More easily handle 3D fully-unstructured meshes through the introduction of Geode Solutions’ technology within the FEFLOW’s context
  • Repair non-conformities from any improper 3D geological software data imported into FEFLOW
  • Easily integrate new datasets to the 3D Supermesh
Extended workflows for model conceptualization in Supermesh (watch the video)
  • Achieve full model parametrization in the Supermesh
  • Assign materials, point properties and line properties before creating a mesh
  • Create better groundwater models by focusing on the concepts rather than on the technicalities of meshes and assignments
  • More easily change geometries in the Supermesh without losing information in the properties
New Well Manager editor
  • Create, edit and delete Well BC, Multilayer Wells and BHEs, the most important boundary condition in a groundwater model
  • Control all groundwater wells (flow, mass and heat) from a central location
  • Import hundreds of wells with just a few clicks
  • Search for Time Series names, etc. more conveniently
  • Gather feedback during well creation to identify whether a groundwater well already exists
  • Combine several problem classes, e.g. an injection well directly defined with a Well BC and Mass Concentration BC
  • Benefit from improved interfacing to 3D partially- and fully-unstructured models
Improved Parallelization Status in FePEST GUI
  • Evaluate the performance of a PC used in FePEST with insight from the Parallelization Status
  • More easily identify workers through grouped listings
  • Monitor the CPU and Memory
  • Append new workers (locals and externals) during the model run
Read FEFLOW Release Notes

MIKE SHE
New options for modeling surface water-groundwater exchange in steep topography
  • MIKE SHE modelers now have two ways to align surface water-groundwater exchange with local variation not captured in coarser model discretisations
  • Option 1: Account for local changes in layers around streams by limiting the exchange to the upper-most saturated zone layer
  • Option 2: Reduce overestimation of head differences by limiting the accompanying driving head calculation to the width of the uppermost layer
Ability to couple MIKE+ models in MIKE SHE
  • Go beyond river modelling – better understand infiltration, rising groundwater and interaction with rivers by coupling your MIKE+ model in MIKE SHE
  • Consider the wider watershed and hydrological cycle in your catchment
Save space with new lightweight results file for use in hotstarts
  • Reduce storage requirements in operational systems with frequent hotstart simulations by saving new, lightweight result files (.sheres) that contain only the data required for subsequent simulations
Access the Results Viewer directly from the Processed Data tab
  • Reduce loading and configuration steps by opening processed data files directly from the Results Viewer, in addition to the Grid Editor, in just one click
  • Access more options for inspecting preprocessed data in the Results Viewer compared to the Grid Editor, which is optimised for editing rather than viewing
Specify the spatial extent of irrigation output files
  • Boost the quality of your irrigation modelling and result reporting with the ability to specify the spatial extent of each irrigation output reporting area
  • Better control MIKE SHE’s default assumptions used to generate irrigation output files that summarize the irrigation water balance at different locations
View log files directly in MIKE SHE
  • Quickly identify issues with preprocessing and simulation runs with easy access to log files directly from the MIKE SHE editor
  • Simply click on the Preprocessing tab for preprocessing logs and the Results tab for simulation logs in lieu of using a text editor
Read MIKE SHE Release Notes
MIKE 21/3
Improved MIKE 21/3 core numerics
  • Run faster, more accurate FM simulations in more applications with improvements to hydrodynamic calculations using the higher-order scheme
  • Model steep gradients such as riverbanks and shelf seas with confidence while avoiding freak (unnatural) velocities and numerical noise
General improvements in the FM suite
  • Experience enhanced MIKE 21/3 modelling performance and stability from an improved FM suite
  • Calculate excess temperature for desalination plants
  • More accurately assess flood defences with an inundation output along a line
  • Use any degree-based map projection the FM engines (removal of LONG/LAT dependency)
  • Experience faster GPU acceleration, both during the initialisation phase (for shapefiles that include thousands of polygons) and during calculations
MIKE 21 Spectral Waves
New mud-induced wave dissipation
  • Better understand near-shore wave conditions in the MIKE 21 Spectral Waves FM model through the introduction of an additional source term that accounts for wave energy dissipation by fluid mud
  • Consider the potential damping effect a fluid mud layer, potentially discharged and transported by a river, estuary or dredging operation, may have on near-shore waves
MIKE 3 and MIKE 3 Wave FM
New 3D sediment transport calculations
  • Develop a better understanding of complex sediment transport problems with the ability to calculate sand transport using a 3D flow field in MIKE 3 Flow Model FM and a new module in MIKE 3 Wave Model FM
  • Rely on the 3D flow field model for modelling scenarios where vertical resolution is important such as trench siltation, scour around monopiles and berms and breaker bar dynamics
  • Calculate sand transport more accurately using a new bed load model after Kovacs and Parker
MIKE ECO Lab and MIKE ABM Lab
General improvements
  • Experience faster FM simulation speed and useful new MIKE ECO Lab and MIKE ABM Lab functionality
  • Perform agent-based modelling (MIKE ABM Lab) calculations on dry elements
  • Experience enhanced performance when calculating ‘distance to shore’ and ‘direction to shore’ with MPI parallelisation
New 3-way MIKE ECO Lab coupling with hydrodynamics and mud transport
  • Investigate complex ecological feedback loops via a unique and innovative 3-way MIKE ECO Lab coupling with two and three-dimensional hydrodynamics and mud transport (for example, to predict seagrass growth and death in areas subject to increased siltation, and to determine the effectiveness of nature-based solutions)
Read MIKE 21 Release Notes and MIKE 3 Release Notes
MIKE OPERATIONS
New MIKE+ adapter (River, Collection System and Overland
  • Use your MIKE+ model in real-time to forecast flooding or to create a collection system or river network digital twin with the new MIKE+ adapter
  • Rely on a user-friendly workflow for easy river, collection system, and overland model configuration
  • Benefit from the integrated nature of MIKE+ by bringing your collection system, river and overland models into a single forecasting platform
New Next-generation no-code Web Application creation software
  • Count on a new intuitive WebApp to share data and results, manage your real-time system and run what-if scenarios to assess uncertainty more easily
  • Configure the platform yourself without the time and cost of engaging web developers
  • Share custom dashboards and forecasting model results and data with anyone, anywhere
  • Avoid the complication of having to access the underlying MIKE OPERATIONS by managing your system straight from the app
Read MIKE OPERATIONS Release Notes

MIKE ZERO
Modernisations and improvements in MIKE Zero
  • Experience a more modern MIKE Zero user interface along with improved editors and viewers
  • Create DFSU time series files with more than one time step via Data Manager
  • Collect additional model components (including boundary conditions and point and line structures from MIKE 21 Spectral Waves FM) thanks to an extended MIKE 21/3 Graphical Overview
  • Access User Guides and Scientific Documentation directly from the MIKE Zero Help menu or take advantage of new right-click functionality to reference User Guides from the MIKE Zero Start page
  • Save time while working with large DFSU time series files
  • Optimise your workflows with improved tabbing, tear off and cascade functionality, new keyboard shortcuts and themes for the MIKE Zero shell
Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

May 2022

MIKE 2022 Update 1

Download MIKE 2022 Update 1
MIKE+ Model Manager
New Versions Management tool
  • Efficiently update your models even if the model data is maintained/updated outside the MIKE+ model i.e. in an Asset database
  • Avoid re-applying the same manual changes to re-create a working model version by applying a simple two-step process: 1) Search for updates in the asset database, by comparing the former and the updated asset database 2) Apply the identified changes to any modified model version
  • Create a hierarchy of the various model versions derived from the same asset data­base
MIKE+ Water Distribution
New Multi-Species Extension (MSX) for describing water quality
  • Model any system of multiple, interacting chemical species with multi-species analysis
  • Simulate these water quality processes using the MSX extension: Chloramine decomposition, bacterial regrowth with chlorine inhibition and arsenite and arsenate adsorption and desorption
MIKE+ 2D Overland
New overland water quality modelling capabilities
  • Investigate water quality processes and treatment options across collection system networks, rivers, coastal environments, lakes, and other surface water bodies
  • Study water quality more holistically using the flexible framework of MIKE ECO Lab
  • Benefit from seamless integration and result visualisation across MIKE1D Pipeflow, MIKE1D River and MIKE 21 FM
  • Easily configure existing water quality templates or create your own
Read MIKE+ Release Notes
WEST
New sidestream granular partial nitritation/anammox treatment process unit model (watch the video)
  • Rely on a new process unit model to describe granular sludge partial nitritation/anammox treatment of reject water
  • Describe transport and conversion processes in bulk and in granules based on user-defined discretization
Updated catchment, sewer and river model library
  • Access a detailed description of wastewater discharges (flows, loads, dynamics) from households, industries, infiltration & inflow and wet weather contributions
  • Better predict hydrogen sulfide emissions with an improved description of in-sewer processes
  • More easily configure your models using an improved description of transport and conversion of pollutants in rivers
  • Check out the dedicated integrated urban water system demo model – now available as a sample project
New thermal hydrolysis process model for all instances
  • Use the new thermal hydrolysis (THP) process model with all instances (not limited to PWM_SA)
  • Simulate thermal hydrolysis upstream and downstream of anaerobic digesters through a direct THP model / ADM1 interface
New demonstration project for energy recovery and utilisation from biogas (watch the video)
  • Access an extension of Benchmark Simulation Model no.2 (BSM2) with an energy/biogas layer
  • Gain insight into biogas storage (gas holder), biogas utilisation for recovery of heat and electricity, and flaring of excess biogas
Read WEST Release Notes
FEFLOW
New Hydrodynamics module (watch the video)
  • Streamline workflows using a new coupling approach between FEFLOW and MIKE 1D
  • Take advantage of a fully hydrodynamic approach for river modelling
  • Model rivers in the groundwater context more seamlessly
  • Ease decision making on what/where to couple FEFLOW and MIKE 1D with a flexible selection of river branches
Read FEFLOW Release Notes

MIKE HYDRO Basin
Enhanced Control Rules features for advanced water allocation (watch the video)
  • Simulate a priority water allocation system using explicit control rules
  • Impose a deficit on an upstream water user to satisfy a demand for downstream water user by enabling the configuration of control rules at nodes and reservoirs (watch the video)
  • Simulate basin-scale reservoir operations by forcing reservoir release to meet demand at a downstream location that is not directly connected to a reservoir
  • Control flow at river nodes and define complex water user rules
Read MIKE HYDRO Basin Release Notes
MIKE 21/3
New coastal vegetation modelling capabilities
  • Integrate vegetation into your coastal defence strategies and coastal zone management planning
  • Model a variety of vegetation – from rigid plants like mangroves to flexible plants such as salt marsh cover
  • Consider vegetation density as constant or time-varying zones of rigid plants in MIKE 21 Flow Model FM, MIKE 3 Flow Model FM and MIKE 3 Wave FM.
  • Apply flexible stems and/or flexible blades after Luhar (2011) and/or Nepf (2013) in MIKE 21 Flow Model FM and MIKE 3 Flow Model FM
  • Select from two new dissipation models applicable to rigid plants in MIKE 21 Spectral Waves FM:
  • A multi-layered approach for the fully spectral formulation and directionally decoupled parametric formulation after Suzuki et al. (2012)
  • A single layered approach for the fully spectral formulation after Jacobsen et al. (2019)
MIKE 21 Mooring Analysis
New option for specifying wave conditions
  • Complete efficient mooring analysis studies even if no dynamic wave data is available
  • Choose from two options for specifying wave conditions:
  • Regular wave parameters (using Stokes 1st order, Stokes 5th order or Stream function options)
  • Irregular wave parameters (using Pierson-Moskowitz, JONSWAP or TMA)
MIKE ECO Lab
Miscellaneous improvements
  • Improved handling of dry elements in MIKE 21/3 FM – Execute MIKE ECO Lab calculations in both traditional ‘wet’ elements as well as dry elements for fixed (not transported) state variables. Describe the flood and dry state of an element as a new built-in forcing.
  • Dynamic removal of unused expressions to improve performance of MIKE 21/3 FM – Save computational time by ‘replacing’ unused equations with a constant value before the simulation run.
  • Particle spawning from standard MIKE ECO Lab expressions in MIKE 21/3 FM – Create new particles from normal, standard MIKE ECO Lab expressions instead of relying on other particles to dynamically create or spawn new particles.
  • New pseudo-random number generator – Ensure each particle produces the same, individual sequence of random numbers using the new pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). Reproduce particle movement, source locations and behavior, independent of the number of parallel cores/domains, on different hardware.
ABM Lab
Miscellaneous improvements
  • New built-in constants and forcings for MIKE 21/3 FM – Rely on several new built-in constants with FM-based engine support. For example, compute the approximate distance and direction to shore.
  • New algorithm for RASF computation in ABM Lab for MIKE 21/3 FM – Compute Remote Area Search Functions (RASFs) for concentration-based variables using an enhanced algorithm. Experience improved performance depending on the computational mesh size and search radius.
Read MIKE 21 Release Notes and MIKE 3 Release Notes
MIKE OPERATIONS
MIKE OPERATIONS Web 2.0 improvements
  • Benefit from the intuitive and automatic no-code WebApp configuration environment
  • Take advantage of map based visualisation of both data and model inputs and outputs
  • Animate and interrogate your 2D outputs
  • Visualise the longitudinal profile of 1D results
  • Create and share advanced and easy to configure dashboards
  • Run what-if scenarios with your model from an intuitive web interface
  • Visualise spreadsheets
  • Manage automatic jobs from a dedicated panel
  • Publish to RSS feeds
  • Take advantage of advanced user management features
MIKE Cloud integration
  • Make the most out of what the cloud has to offer when configuring real time forecasting systems by integrating MIKE OPERATIONS with DHI’s MIKE Cloud platform
  • Manage users and access APIs (watch the video)
  • Create, read and edit your MIKE Cloud Timeseries (watch the video)
  • Publish and access your spatial data with MIKE Cloud (watch the video)
  • Run simulation models online using cloud computing and publish your result to MIKE Cloud (watch the video)
  • Publish automatic reports to MIKE Cloud
Read MIKE OPERATIONS Release Notes

MIKE IO
Read, write and manipulate MIKE dfs files with Python (watch the video and register for the 16 June webinar)
  • New MIKE IO users can now benefit from flexible data processing and visualisation via Python data science ecosystem
  • Carry out automated workflows
  • Convert data to / from 3rd party data formats
Enhanced MIKE IO 1.0 (watch the video and register for the 15 June webinar)
  • Benefit from improved workflow and new data structures
  • Perform convenient context-aware plotting
  • Enjoy more simplified and readable syntax
MIKE Zero
Redesigned start page for a superior user experience (view the updated start page)
  • Enjoy easy access to new MIKE Cloud applications and Cloud-enhanced functionality
  • Use an extended set of MIKE tools within theme-based (rather than product-based) interactive workflows
  • Ensure important model components such as sources and structures stay at the forefront with a new interactive, customisable floating mapping window
  • Work flexibly across multiple monitors using the updated tabbing functionality
Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

November 2021

MIKE 2022

MIKE+ 2D Overland

New SWMM / 2D overland model coupling

  • Model pluvial flooding in 2D by coupling MIKE+ SWMM and 2D overland
  • Create a MIKE+ SWMM 2D model to help plan, evaluate and design new or existing urban drainage systems

Miscellaneous MIKE+ 2D Overland improvements

  • Uncheck the 'Allow for recalculation' box in the '1D-2D couplings' editor to lock your custom coupling coordinates
  • Couple Advection-Dispersion components when coupling the 1D network to a MIKE 21 FM or MIKE 3 FM file
  • Improved performance for 2D overland applications using GPU acceleration

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Collection Systems

New 'Results differences' tool

  • Quickly identify locations where differences in hydraulic network simulation results are observed
  • Visualise and compare these results from a former model version against the results from a new version updated with the latest information from an asset management system

Miscellaneous MIKE+ Collection Systems improvements

  • Control the elevation of structures dictated by control rules at the start of the simulation by specifying an 'Initial level' in the weirs' and orifices' properties

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Rivers

MIKE HYDRO River and MIKE11 model import

  • Import MIKE HYDRO River and MIKE 11 river models directly into MIKE+
  • Take advantage of currently supported river functionalities in MIKE+ such as the ability to define rivers, catchments, structures and boundary conditions

Full structures modelling capabilities

  • Model new types of river network structures in MIKE+ including pumps, bridge structures, dambreaks, tabulated structures and user-defined energy losses

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Collection Systems / MIKE+ Rivers

Miscellaneous MIKE+ Collection Systems / Rivers improvements

  • Use the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) raster formats 'GeoTIFF' (tif, tiff) and 'ArcInfo Binary Grid' (adf), in the 'Catchment delineation' tool
  • Save catchment and network result files with maximum/minimum/average values, time of maximum/minimum value and accumulated values by selecting the new 'Statistics' content type

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Water Distribution

New special analyses

  • Optimise the behaviour of pumps and valves to meet targeted water depth, pressure or flow using a new 'Optimization' special analysis tool
  • Map MIKE+ model data to a SCADA system's data using a new 'Online analysis' tool, especially useful for Water Distribution Online

Miscellaneous MIKE+ Water Distribution improvements

  • Rely on the 'Network vulnerability' tool (formerly 'Pipe criticality') for node criteria reporting
  • Support interactive fire flow analyses with a new 'Free discharge hydrant' method that computes both hydrant discharge and residual pressure
  • Save the extra result items, 'Tap pressure' and 'Demand allocations pressure,' during simulations and 'Efficiency', 'Energy costs' and 'Energy,' when performing simulations using the EPANET 2.2 engine version

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+

Enhanced import and export capabilities

  • Export map data from MIKE+ to CAD files (.dwg and .dxf formats)
  • Export longitudinal profile plots to CAD files (.dwg format)
  • Import data from an Oracle spatial database
  • Save your map layout to an image file using a new 'Export map' button in the 'Map' tab
  • Export simulation files and run simulations from a command line (without opening the user interface)
  • Easily merge two MIKE+ projects together using a new 'Automap sections' button
  • Convert input strings (texts) to numbers and control how the decimal separator is identified with the new 'Source text format' job property or DoubleFromString function

Miscellaneous MIKE+ improvements

  • Connect to a WMS server using a proxy server to display background layers
  • Measure distances on the map along segments or polylines, as well as polygon areas, using a new 'Measure' tool
  • Synchronized date and time of results in the 'Property and result explorer' view and map
  • Use the 'Clone and repair database' tool to recover from damaged / corrupt databases
  • Choose between SI and US unit systems from the 'User preferences' dialog for viewing results without model database
  • Merge data from model tables and results in a common report table using the improved 'Joins' in the 'Model and result report' tool
  • New 'Time step' option enables users to add a column to the join table with results from a selected time step
  • Continue a Rivers, Collection System or Overland flow simulation outside of MIKE+ upon closure to release the license module of the user interface
  • Easily correct network connectivity errors in your SWMM models with the 'Topology repair' tool
  • Report static volume from Pump Emergency Storage analyses to support the design of sewage pumping stations

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

WaterNet Advisor

General

  • Improved profile plotting and labelling
  • Display of calibration data independent of simulation results
  • Improved flow tracking to handle abnormal conditions when both forward and backward tracking share the same path
  • Support for registering MIKE+ SQLite databases with water distribution and collection system models

Supports DHI EPANET (2.0 and 2.2), MIKE 1D and SWMM engines

  • View and share results, run simulations and scenarios
  • Display time series, scatter plots, profile plots or map view
  • Create thematic maps or browse and animate results
  • Access a live connection between telemetry (SCADA) data and the hydraulic model for EPANET based model

Work with your MIKE 1D models anytime, anywhere

  • WaterNet Advisor users now have web-based access to DHI MIKE 1D models
  • With WaterNet Advisor CS (Collection System), you can set up scenarios and edit your model
  • Run network hydraulics, catchment run-off or water quality simulations
  • View and share results from a desktop, phone or tablet
  • WaterNet Advisor is the only product on the market with these capabilities

WEST

GUI improvements

  • Save plots (and underlying data) with project and load upon re-opening of the project
  • Line plot now default data plot for easy creation of mixed simulated vs. measured data series
  • Refresh file view on the Data Import page of Influent Wizard (when file is manipulated outside of WEST)

Modelica Library improvements

  • Download the new Models Guide (see here)
  • Try the new carbon footprint calculator in the mTwoASU_Extended sample
  • Calculate hydraulic- and solid surface load in the clarifier model
  • Calculate ORP in ASU tanks and multiprobe
  • Expand your modelling capabilities with access to four new models:
  • Continuous flow (CSTR) and SBR reactor with granular sludge
  • Membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR)
  • SBR based on moving bed biofilm (MBBR) technology
  • SBR based on fixed bed biofilm (MBBR) technology

Read WEST Release Notes

FEFLOW

Update models faster using a new conceptual modelling approach (Watch the video)

  • Spend more time on concepts and less on meshing
  • Define material information before generating the mesh
  • Eliminate the risk of lost information after re-meshing

Support PEST++ methods (IES and GLM) in FePEST (Watch the video)

  • FePEST, a dedicated tool for history matching (model calibration), uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis now supports the use PEST++ within FEFLOW models
  • Directly quantify the uncertainty associated with groundwater models with the new Iterative Ensemble Smoother (PESTPP-IES) method

Better manage selections and workflows with usability improvements

  • Selections can now be grouped and easily sorted
  • Operations of content/budget analysis now at group level
  • Easily identify selections with content/budget analysis

Benefit from improved numerics

  • New SAMG version 2020 for enhanced memory management and improved parallelisation
  • New solver package PETSc including Krylov-based methods, AMG solver and GPU-accelerated support
  • Separate error norm type and tolerance per problem class (flow, mass and heat)
  • Experience faster numerical calculations
  • Access a new input unit (Energy demand) for BHE configuration

Tap into the power of integrated groundwater resources management

  • Analyse the interaction between surface water and groundwater like never before
  • FEFLOW piMIKE1D is our latest technology for surface water and groundwater interactions
  • Users can now directly import MIKE SHE results into FEFLOW
  • New data regionalization method

Interact with FEFLOW using your own code with the improved IFM, Python and FEFLOW console

  • Additional flexibility for those customers working with the FEFLOW Open Programming Interface
  • Users now have access to more than 20 new APIs to support the new conceptual modelling approach
  • New multi-threading control for FEFLOW Python runs
  • Additional controls to change material properties through the programming interface
  • New option to perform a switch in the equation solver in the FEFLOW console

Read FEFLOW Release Notes

MIKE SHE

Miscellaneous MIKE SHE improvements

  • More easily select branch names and chainages for MIKE 11 result reporting
  • Experience faster reading of input climate data

Read MIKE SHE Release Notes

MIKE HYDRO River

MIKE HYDRO River and MIKE11 model import

  • Import MIKE HYDRO River and MIKE 11 river models directly into MIKE+
  • Take advantage of currently supported river functionalities in MIKE+ such as the ability to define rivers, catchments, structures and boundary conditions

Miscellaneous MIKE HYDRO River improvements

  • Use multiple MIKE ECO Lab templates simultaneously
  • Show the boundary condition ID as a label on the map

Read MIKE HYDRO River Release Notes

MIKE HYDRO Basin

Miscellaneous MIKE HYDRO Basin improvements

  • Modify model inputs based on the model state or external time series values using a new 'Control rules' editor

Read MIKE HYDRO River Release Notes

MIKE 21/3

Model complex hydrodynamics and scour with accurate turbulence modelling (Watch the video)

  • MIKE 3 Flow Model FM users now have access to our k-Omega turbulence model with wall functions to model vortices and vortex shedding near vertical structures such as slender piles
  • Couple with a MIKE 21/3 Mud Transport or MIKE 21/3 Sand Transport model to more accurately predict scour around structures.

Model heat exchange with improved water temperature calculation

  • Simulate bottom-water heat exchange via the Temperature / Salinity module
  • Include ground heat, thermal conductivity and ground temperature in your water temperature calculation

Read MIKE 21/3 Release Notes

MIKE 21

Experience improved inland flooding application performance with GPU acceleration

  • Optimised inland flooding gradient calculations, pre-processing of infrastructure and pre-processing of boundary conditions
  • Improved data transfer on inundation output

Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

MIKE 21 Spectral Waves

New parametrisation of source terms (Watch the video)

  • Experience faster model calibration and improved results
  • Calculate cut-off frequency using a modified scaling factor for the Pierson-Moskowitz frequency
  • Calculate wave stress when selecting coupled air-sea interaction
  • Calculate friction velocity based on sea roughness, wind stress when using the uncoupled air-sea interaction formulation
  • Benefit from extended wind input and wave stress to shallow water formulation
  • Access new options for atmospheric interaction (wind input and swell dissipation) and white capping following Ardhuin et al. (2010)

New output options, including wind sea and swell separation (Watch the video)

  • Users now have the option of selecting the wave age approach for separation of wind sea and swell to gain a deeper understanding of complex wave-air phenomena
  • Calculate neutral wind speed based on water (temperature and salinity) and air properties (temperature, pressure and relative humidity)
  • Assess water density as a function of water temperature and salinity and air density as a function of surface pressure, air temperature or relative humidity
  • Calculate the Stokes drift of fluid particles in the fluid flow

Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

MIKE 3 Wave FM

Assess the impact of waves on marine structure stability with accurate turbulence modelling (Watch the video)

  • MIKE 3 Wave FM users now have access to our k-Omega turbulence model with wall functions
  • Rely on more accurate calculations of vortices and vortex shedding around vertical structures

Read MIKE 3 Release Notes

MIKE OPERATIONS

MIKE Cloud integration

  • Use your MIKE Cloud account in MIKE OPERATIONS and work with your MIKE Cloud data natively in MIKE Workbench

MIKE Workbench: Scenario Manager

  • New workflow to bring your MIKE 21FM model into MIKE OPERATIONS (see video)
  • Improved workflow to convert your MIKE SHE model into forecasting tool
  • New simulation sorting option

MIKE Workbench: Job Manager

  • Improve the visualization of tabular outputs in job log data view

MIKE Workbench: Timeseries Manager

  • Access a new Time Series provider with other MIKE OPERATIONS databases

Read MIKE OPERATIONS Release Notes

MIKE Zero

Miscellaneous MIKE Zero improvements

  • Experience improved support for multiple monitor setups with new tab-based navigation between editors, including ‘tear-off’ functionality
  • Import KMD files and data from Excel given the recently extended Time Series editor

Read MIKE 21/3 Release Notes

May 2021

MIKE 2021 Update 1

MIKE+

General

  • Add CAD files (*.dwg, *.dxf) as a layer on the map, add layers from a geodatabase (*.gdb) and select and import multiple files at once
  • View the active date and time of the animated results above Profile plots and Cross section plots
  • A new option in the Time Series Plots contextual menu allows users to derive accumulated values from relevant result items which is helpful when computing an accumulated volume from a time series of discharge
  • The 'Project Information' dialog has been extended to allow users to view summary level information for Rivers, 2D Overland and SWMM data as well as extra information for Collection System and Water Distribution

Improved integration with ArcGIS Pro

  • Get more out of MIKE+ data and symbology in ArcGIS Pro as rivers, 2D overland and SWMM data are all now supported - together with their results in 1D and 2D
  • With ArcGIS Pro, you can explore, visualise and analyse data even further
  • Share results via ArcGIS Online or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal

Enhanced ‘import and export’ tool

  • Include comments and save them to a configuration file
  • Import data from a Microsoft SQL Server database
  • Import polyline data into a polygon layer and import catchments when the source file describes catchments with polylines
  • Control how to import a shape file containing dissolved polylines (multi-polylines defining a single item) by merging the various polylines or by importing them as separate items
  • Import CAD files in both *.dwg and *.dxf formats with the option to import individual layers from the CAD files or all layers with a specified layer type

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ SWMM

General

  • Profile plots have been enabled for SWMM projects, including the display of SWMM results
  • Access various tools for SWMM projects including 'Interpolation and Assignment', ‘Create and Update Transects’, ‘Model and Result Report’, ‘Catchment Processing’ and ‘Calibration Plots’
  • Extra SWMM parameters have been added to the ‘LID deployment’ editor enabling users to control the percentage of pervious area treated and select a node or catchment to send drain flow to
  • Tags are now supported for all relevant SWMM features
  • Define internal time series with a relative time axis (no date specified)

Model stormwater and wastewater systems in SWMM

  • Plan, design, and analyse stormwater, sanitary and combined systems with full access to the MIKE+ SWMM module
  • Evaluate low impact development designs, mitigation options and pipe capacity to ensure a high standard of service and cost-effectiveness

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Collection Systems

General

  • Significantly reduced time required for the initialization of simulations for major model setups
  • Extended ‘Catchment Delineation’ tool with new options to process only selected items and new network type filter
  • Now supports the boundary condition type ‘Exfiltration from Link’
  • New ‘Soil Infiltration Capacity’ parameter in the ‘LID Properties’ editor for the ‘Vegetative Wale’ LID type

New Pump Emergency Storage tool

  • Automatically calculate available emergency storage and time in the event of a pump failure - before alarm level is reached or a sewer overflow happens
  • If a pump failure were to occur, rely on this tool to stop or delay upstream flows of a failed pump
  • An embedded network tracing tool eliminates the burden of locating the lowest overflow level for each pumping station

Real-time control module enhancements

  • The ‘Real-time control’ module has been renamed ‘Control rules’ and now applies to both Collection Systems and River Networks
  • Access new types of sensors
  • The ‘Actions’ and ‘Control rules’ editors have been split for more clarity and new action types added
  • Save a new ‘Control Strategy ID’ item to return time series of active control rule numbers for each controlled structure in the results files

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Rivers

  • New ‘Flow factor’ option for Weir and Culvert structures
  • Now supports two extra types of structures including ‘Gates’ and ‘Direct Discharges’ designed to be regulated using control rules
  • Clarified the definition of left and right sides of the river and applied it consistently across tools. Sides are now defined looking in the flow direction and a function of the 'Flow Direction' has been specified for the branches
  • Mapping of cross sections without coordinates has been corrected for negative-direction branches
  • A new warning has been introduced in cases where cross sections are digitised in the wrong direction
  • Improved 'Edit Multiple cross Sections' tool recomputes coordinates accordingly for negative-direction branches

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Water Distribution

  • Access version 2.2 of the EPANET engine for Water Distribution simulations. Can also choose between version 2.0 and 2.2 in the ‘Model Type’ page
  • When using the version 2.2, extra parameters are now available in the ‘Tanks’ and ‘Hydrodynamic Simulation’ editors, as well as for VSD pumps which can use either a constant or a variable set point
  • Repair connection issues using the new ‘Refresh Connection Lines’ tool in the ‘WD Network’ tab

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

MIKE+ Collection Systems / MIKE+ Rivers

Model rivers and urban networks with 3D surface flow

  • MIKE+ and MIKE FLOOD users can now dynamically couple rivers and urban networks with 3D surface flow calculations using MIKE 3 Flow Model FM
  • Model complex river systems that feed three-dimensional coastal, estuarial domains or stratified lakes by accurately representing the outflow of a river or pipe
  • Experience a dramatic increase in accuracy and reliability of results when complex 1D and 3D flows occur
  • Include the propagation of pollutants in your models

Read MIKE+ Release Notes

WaterNet Advisor

Web access to the SWMM engine (watch the video)

  • Users can now access SWMM models remotely through the web-based WaterNet Advisor interface
  • The one-of-a-kind WaterNet Advisor SWMM allows you run simulations, configure scenarios and view/share results right from a desktop, phone or tablet

WEST

  • An extensively updated version of the UCT Plant-Wide Model (PWM_SA) is now available and includes a dedicated process unit model for the Thermal Hydrolysis Process (THP)
  • New models describing sludge handling units (drying, pre-heating) and biogas handling units (biogas holder, engine, boiler, flare) are available
  • The carbon footprint of a wastewater treatment plant can now be estimated using a dedicated calculator model that tracks direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions
  • The number of layers in settling and biofilm models can now be adjusted by the user; the two numbers are independent
  • Dynamic alpha-F factors can be calculated as a function of a blower’s age and cleaning state 

Read WEST Release Notes

FEFLOW

Hydro-mechanical coupling (watch the video)

  • Improved support for hydro-mechanical processes
  • Better assess changes in effective stress due to pumping via the application of modified Hooke's Law
  • Evaluate hydro-dispersive parameters including hydraulic conductivity, porosity and storage coefficient as a function of effective stress
  • Visualise settlement induced by local deformation when working with layered 3D meshes

Read FEFLOW 2021 Release Notes

MIKE HYDRO River

  • Use weighted time series for radiation when performing Rainfall-Runoff simulations with the NAM model
  • The definition of left and right sides of the river has been clarified and applied consistently across tools. Sides are now defined looking in the flow direction and a function of the 'Flow Direction' has been specified for the branches
  • Mapping of cross sections without coordinates has been corrected for negative-direction branches
  • A new warning has been introduced in cases where cross sections are digitised in the wrong direction
  • Improved 'Edit multiple cross sections' tool now recomputes coordinates accordingly for negative-direction branches

Read MIKE HYDRO River Release Notes

MIKE SHE

  • Run pre-processing, water movement, and water quality together via the new "Run All" icon in the top ribbon
  • Distributed vegetation parameters inputs have been enabled to now include time-varying inputs
  • Benefit from API access to the model coordinate system within the Python Interface along with additional Python 3.9 support

Read MIKE SHE Release Notes

MIKE 21 Curvilinear Flow Model

  • Access improved river morphology features including starting conditions, helical flow and sediment transport parameters
  • Output options have also been significantly extended

Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

MIKE 21 Mooring Analysis (MA)

New option for specifying current and wind conditions

  • To work more efficiently with mooring analysis software, constant values can now be used in cases where no dynamic data is available
  • Specify constant current and wind conditions directly in the GUI and engine – there’s no need to prepare timeseries for wind and currents anymore
  • Experience improved performance of the Frequency Response Calculator in cases where a large number of panels exist (up to a factor of 2 can be achieved)

Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

MIKE 21/3

  • Improved accuracy of the numerical integration scheme in both MIKE ECO Lab and ABM Lab

Read MIKE 21 Release Notes

MIKE 21/3 Mud Transport

Simulate non-Newtonian fluids to better assess the impact of a tailing dam break

  • Simulate non-Newtonian fluids with a new option for specifying fluid properties including density, Bingham fluid viscosity and yield stress
  • By including the Mud Transport module in your simulations, the fluid properties can vary in time and space

New ‘Near-bed transport model’ (watch the video)

  • Rely on our groundbreaking ‘Near-bed transport model’ to model bed load and mixed sand and mud transport - an entirely new scientific concept in the world of dredging
  • Account for sand spilling into the water column from dredging operations

Read MIKE 3 Release Notes

MIKE 3

Jet source improvements

  • New option for applying jet sources in MIKE 3 Flow Model FM. Jet calculations can now only be performed at the overall time step, which can significantly reduce the computation cost
  • Experience improved performance using jet sources in combination with MPI parallelisation in MIKE 3 Flow Model FM as the MPI overhead is reduced by a factor 2 approximatively

Read MIKE 3 Release Notes

MIKE OPERATIONS

General

  • Sort databases upon login
  • New context-sensitive help feature

MIKE Workbench: Scenario Manager

  • Additional support when working with 2D models using HEC-RAS in MIKE OPERATIONS, running ensemble simulations simultaneously on multiple cores with MIKE HYDRO River models, for spatial input timeseries and for the optimisation functionality when working with EPANET adapter
  • Better monitor and manage initial conditions in operations systems with the addition of more information on the storage of initial condition sets 
  • Export a simulation list

MIKE Workbench: GIS Manager

  • Work with vector data stored in MIKE Data Admin using the new MIKE Cloud GIS provider
  • Work with raster data stored in MIKE Data Admin with the new MIKE Cloud raster provider
  • Work with mesh data stored in MIKE Data Admin using the new MIKE Cloud mesh provider
  • Upload to multi-dimensional storage in MIKE Data Admin with a new MIKE Cloud Spatial Upload tool
  • New map selection of mesh elements to Mesh Query tool
  • Access a generic raster importer, raster exporter and vector exporter, compatible with all GDAL formats
  • Perform a bulk import of feature classes from a folder

MIKE OPERATIONS Desktop

  • Access user-defined column headings in summary views

MIKE Workbench: Timeseries Manager

  • New tool for bulk TS selection to enable running tool sequences on multiple TS
  • New option to give user-defined names to TS provider connections

Database Manager Utility

  • Access an overview of the amount of storage allocated to different databases
  • New auto-fill feature of database name on backup
  • Additional synchronization of port and database service for users running multiple services

Read MIKE OPERATIONS Release Notes

MIKE Zero

  • Experience significantly improved performance of key MIKE Zero editors and viewers relating to: the display of unstructured grids, curvilinear grids and structured orthogonal grids; when searching for elements of unstructured grids; allocated memory for unstructured grids; and when handling large datasets
  • The MIKE 21/3 FM editor now performs well with meshes of more than 10M elements
  • Certain editors (notably the MIKE Zero Grid Editor) can handle datasets in excess of 100M grid cells
  • Item values in dfs0 files can now be specified in single precision or double precision and all items in the file can be converted to either single precision or double precision with one click
  • New unit types have been added to the MIKE Zero Engineering Unit Management (EUM) System

Read MIKE 21/3 Release Notes

November 2020

MIKE 2021

MIKE+

General

  • MIKE URBAN+ is relaunched MIKE+, the integrated water modelling platform supporting urban, river and flood applications
  • Supports ArcGIS Pro 2.5 (2.2 and higher)
  • Upgrade to PostgreSQL 11.1 and PostGIS 2.5.1
  • Background maps can be obtained from WMS servers. This option supports only WMS servers with projected map projections (not geographical projections). The map projection from the WMS server must be the same as the projection used in MIKE+
  • The map projection used in MIKE+ can be modified for a model setup. While selecting a new map projection, it is possible to convert coordinates of features in the model setup to the new coordinate system. Note, 2D files (including e.g. existing 2D overland domain file) cannot be re-projected.
  • GeoTIFF files and Arc/Info binary grids are now supported: layers can be displayed on the map and used in the ‘Interpolation and assignment’ tool
  • A new ‘cross section plot’ tool is available in the Results ribbon, and displays animated water levels in cross sections from river results, 2D overland results, or both When importing data from a geodatabase, it is now also possible to import data from plain tables, i.e. tables without geometry on the map

MIKE+ Water Distribution

Perform Water Hammer analyses via the improved Water Hammer simulation engine

  • Improvements to Air valves
  • Improvements to Check valves (user-defined cracking pressure and velocity, opening and closing times)
  • Support of Hazen Williams and Manning friction
  • Ability to cancel the simulation while it is running
  • Improved error reporting when reading the input file
  • Orifice outflow (pressure dependent turnout)

General

  • Batch runs are now also available for EPANET
  • Demands can now be aggregated for selected items
  • Supports import of geometries specified in separate tables to the link, catchment, etc.
  • Import topology improved with option for splitting pipes at T-sections
  • Flow modulated pressure reducing valve now supported

MIKE+ Collection Systems

SWMM5 now supported for modelling collection systems

  • Can be chosen as a new model type when creating a new model setup
  • SWMM5.1.013 version supported
  • Features excluded in this first release of SWMM:
  • SWMM Water Quality
  • Import of SWMM scenarios from MIKE URBAN classic setups
  • Catchment Processing tool
  • MIKE+ SWMM documentation
  • Model transfer tools ‘SWMM to MIKE 1D’ and ‘MIKE1D to SWMM’
  • Network simplification of SWMM models
  • Creation of Transects from DEM
  • ‘Interpolation and assignment’ tool

Improved MIKE1D Network simplification tool

  • Trim networks
  • Merge pipes
  • Merge catchments
  • Reconnect the disconnected features (boundary conditions, catchments, etc.)
  • Convert the pipe network to a set of basins and orifices for surrogate applications

General

  • Custom units (US units) can now be applied with the RTC module

MIKE+ Rivers

General

  • The Transport (AD) and Water Quality (MIKE ECO Lab) modules can now be used with River Networks models
  • River cross sections can be digitised and edited on the map
  • A new ‘Structure Link’ type of river has been added that allows weir and culvert structures to be added
  • The scenario manager now allows users to define scenarios with changes on the river network Documentation: New MIKE+ River Network Manual

New ‘Create and update cross sections’ tool

  • Create multiple new cross sections, from survey points and/or DEM
  • Update existing cross sections with a new DEM
  • Assign the distributed roughness values in the cross sections, from a GIS layer

MIKE+ Flooding

General

  • MIKE+ (Collection Systems and Rivers) can be coupled to an existing MIKE 21 FM setup file
  • River end coupling (‘standard link’) for rivers is now supported
  • Surface roughness and infiltration can now be defined from a polygon layer, e.g., mapping to the land cover
  • Insertion of new 2D dikes from a file has been improved. If the input file is a 3D shape file (containing crest levels in the lines geometry), then all the lines from the file are imported simultaneously as separated dikes, and the crest levels are also imported from the file.
  • The result file type 'Section discharge' now supports polylines shapes, instead of straight lines
  • The result file type '2D flood statistics' has been extended to save new statistic items from flood simulations
  • Land roughness values can be derived from an input land cover shapefile
  • Roughness for each land cover category can be defined as flow-dependent (depth-varying or flux-varying), which considers the impact of depth on the roughness of different materials (e.g. grass, crops, parks, buildings)
  • Road polygon shapefiles can be used directly as input file, removing the need to burn them into the mesh itself
  • Topography in roads or embankment areas can be raised or lowered
  • Non-Newtonian flows (using the Full Bingham Fluid formulation) can now be modelled in the 2D module. This is useful to represent mud, debris, heavy oil

Define buildings from a polygon layer to apply special treatments in the 2D overland simulation

  • Buildings are elevated and rain falling on their roofs can now weir onto surrounding ground
  • A building runoff factor can delay rainfall runoff from buildings – for example, dealing very simplistically with complex roof construction or green roofs
  • Rain falling on buildings can be retained in the buildings. It is possible to position a coupling to the collection system network in the building area to convey rainfall to the network

MIKE URBAN+

  • MIKE URBAN+ is relaunched MIKE+, the integrated water modelling platform supporting urban, river and flood applications. Learn more.

WaterNet Advisor

  • Now supports MIKE+ Collection Systems (MIKE 1D) (watch the video)
  • Simulate various scenarios and view results in a web-based interface for decision making using your phone, tablet, PC or in the field

WEST

  • Preliminary treatment units (screening, grit removal) are now included in the block library
  • Increased settling area with the use of lamellae is now described in a dedicated settling unit model
  • Reactive settling can now be modelled in multiple (ideal and multi-layer) clarifier models
  • New biological treatment units are part of the block library and include the upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB), aerobic digestion and biofiltration (zero-dimensional model)
  • In biofilm-based process units (MBBR, IFAS), users can define separate kinetics for bulk liquid and biofilms
  • Model the fate of sulphur, including gaseous H2S emissions, during anaerobic digestion
  • A new comprehensive process model for COD, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur is now available. The model includes 2-step nitrification, 4-step denitrification, Anammox, P-uptake and release as well as sulphate reduction to H2S
  • Models describing heat exchange during sludge pre-heating, heat losses in anaerobic digesters, thermal and electrical energy recovery from biogas are now available, allowing users to accurately determine energy and heat balances
  • The nutrient recovery modelling (NRM) library now includes a stripper unit for ammonia recovery
  • The anaerobic digestion model ADM1 can now be interfaced with all process models used in the water line
  • Duplicate plots in graphical dashboards
  • New pre-defined samples are available and include the Benchmark Simulation Model no. 2 (BSM2), plant layouts with MBBR and oxidation ditch, and a test case for the use of the Python extension
  • Continuity checks have been implemented for the default activated sludge models and can be used as templates for new or extended process models
  • The user interface in German, Japanese, Polish and Russian has been updated

MIKE HYDRO River

  • Specify one or more DEMs to create 2D flood maps of the river channel. Water depths are not interpolated from cross sections anymore but use underlying topography
  • New tool available to generate DEM files from a combination of multiple source tiles
  • New cross-section resistance assignment tool allows users to define the resistance along each cross section using input dfs2 files storing Manning’s values or shapefiles storing polygons with the land cover type
  • MIKE HYDRO River engine (MIKE 1D) is now usable in Deltares-FEWS forecasting platform. Input timeseries can be edited in real-time and output ones used in the user interface. Scripts, xml files and supporting documents can be found on DHI GitHub repository

MIKE SHE

Editable overview tables

  • Benefit from an overview of all the distributed parameters below the table
  • Quickly edit the basic parameters for much of your models without using the data tree
  • Rely on the table at the top of the Data Tree for an overview of all the distributed input for the entire model

FEFLOW

Hydro-mechanical coupling (watch the video)

  • Accurately calculate ground subsidence using a new plugin
  • Based on a modified Hooke's law to relate effective stress σ' to hydraulic conductivity 𝐊, porosity θ and storage coefficient Ss
  • Supports both porous media and fractures
  • Also supports surface loading, which can be especially important in mining

MODFLOW extractor

  • MODFLOW users can now import their models into FEFLOW
  • A simple plug-in is now available to extract data from an existing MODFLOW 6 model
  • Import mesh geometry and nodal/element properties and visualise results
  • Does not extract boundary conditions, but these can be added manually to fully recreate a MODFLOW model

API extensions

  • Take advantage of the many new and improved features to FEFLOW’s Python Programming and IFM interfaces, including improved documentation (See here)
  • Work with selections using new options
  • Benefit from more complete access to Model Parameters using vector functions
  • Run the simulator through Python using additional features
  • Support coordinate system strings (backend only)
  • Pathlines and Streamlines
  • Access a complete online help system for the Python interface

Chemical groups

  • New Import and Export functions enable user interface support for complex chemical groups
  • Species IDs and names
  • Reaction types, including all coefficients for predefined reactions (Monod, etc.)
  • Entire syntaxes (FE Mathed) used for the user-defined reactions
  • Import/export of the entire chemical system in ASCII format, e.g. XML or other ‘modern’ format

IFM for chemical reactions

  • New IFM functions for managing chemical reactions
  • IfmSetSpeciesKineticsType – To set the kinetic reaction type (degradation, Arrhenius, or Monod) and the corresponding coefficients
  • IfmSetSpeciesUserSpecificKineticsType - To set the full kinetic expression for a user-defined reaction IfmGetSpeciesUserSpecificKineticsType - To query kinetic expression in a user-defined reaction

MIKE 21 Mooring Analysis

  • Compatible with Trelleborg’s advanced mooring system, DynaMoor™ (see DynaMoor™)

MIKE 21 Spectral Waves

  • Specify a simple cap value on the correction for friction velocity
  • Apply cyclic boundary conditions in MIKE 21 SW

MIKE 21/3 Mud Transport

New sediment disposal feature

  • Model sediment disposal from a split barge using a nearfield/farfield coupled approach
  • The nearfield solution is based on an integrated approach independent from the MIKE computational mesh
  • New time-centering for the calculation of vertical velocity in the sigma coordinate system solving 3D Shallow water equations

MIKE 21/3

  • New algorithm for gradient calculation for higher order scheme in space: HD calculations for 3D, and AD calculations for 2D and 3D calculations
  • New gradient limiter for higher order scheme in space: AD calculations for both 2D and 3D
  • New normalised approach for absorption of short-wave radiation in the water column and possibility to specify the light extinction coefficient for short wave radiation as a 2D map
  • Specify dedicated output of detailed information for culverts, weirs and gates
  • New option for selecting additional inundation output of velocity components at maximum current speed, and time at first depth above threshold
  • Improved level and flux boundary in connection with dry areas for the hydrodynamic module
  • New option to hotstart Oil Spill (OS), Particle Tracking (PT) and Agent-based simulations (ABM Lab), in MIKE 21 and MIKE 3 (FM only) using a particle type output file as an input for hotstart
  • Significantly reduced initialisation time of large MIKE ECO Lab simulations in MIKE 21 Flow Model FM and MIKE 3 Flow Model FM

MIKE OPERATIONS

General

  • The new MIKE FLOOD Adaptor allows you to transform your MIKE FLOOD (or MIKE+) model to a real-time forecasting system
  • Timeseries can be hosted on MIKE CLOUD, allowing users to securely store and share data in the cloud to access anytime, anywhere. This also makes the data usable by the MIKE CLOUD ecosystem of applications and dashboarding tools (e.g. PowerBI).
  • The new FEFLOW Adaptor empowers groundwater experts in managing their models, running scenarios and comparing results using MIKE OPERATIONS
  • Store your MIKE OPERATIONS data in a Microsoft SQL Server Database and make the most out of your existing IT infrastructure

MIKE Zero & Toolboxes

General

  • Extended support for horizontal and vertical tiling of windows in MIKE Zero applications
  • Updated and extended list of supported map projections in MIKE Zero
  • New option for importing foreign map projections
  • New free-text search added, including search for optional EPSG numbers

May 2020

MIKE 2020 Update 1

MIKE URBAN+

New CS River module for improved integrated modelling

  • Supports native river modelling with MIKE 1D
  • Graphical editing of rivers enabled
  • Cross sections and branches defined as in MIKE HYDRO
  • Support for Culverts and Weirs
  • Specification of bed roughness
  • Cross sections shared with Collections Systems module
  • Connect collection systems and rivers in one geometric network and one MIKE 1D simulation
  • Transport pollutants washed-off the surface through collection system and river by advection dispersion
  • Simultaneous runoff and network simulations in Collection Systems and River modules
  • Couple the native river to 2D just like in the Collection Systems module to support lateral coupling
  • New River Network tab with various tools enable graphical network editing of river networks

Coupling to MIKE HYDRO

  • For users having the river described in MIKE HYDRO, this river network can be coupled to 2D in MIKE URBAN+
  • Batch creation of couplings
  • Display Collection Systems, CS River and MIKE HYDRO river in one map view

Improved Import tool

  • Supports import of geometries specified in separate tables to the link, catchment, etc.
  • Import topology improved with option for splitting pipes at T-sections
  • Reads existing import configuration files developed for MIKE URBAN Classic enabling users to save in the new format

Improved longitudinal profile

  • Automatic load of typical results layers into the profile Water Level, Discharge, Pressure, and Head
  • Option to display DEM in the profile
  • Improved result presentation with export of Flexible Mesh and velocity vectors to shape file
  • Improved Scenario Manager with import of demand allocations and patterns
  • Improved demand geocoding, map projection and background map appearance
  • New MIKE URBAN+ Flood modelling manual
  • Enhanced support for units which can be specified for the individual attribute and stored in the project database
  • New tool in Water Distribution for converting asset point valves to model link valves
  • Updates to Distributed Demand tool for distributing within DMA’s

MIKE HYDRO Basin

Irrigation module improvements

  • Improved yield calculation, rice soil model, evaporation from paddy fields and soil moisture balance calculations
  • Field areas now allow crop shift

MIKE HYDRO River

General

  • Improved handling of storage initial conditions. New tools for creating storages and defining volume from DEM
  • New multi-zone description of bed resistance enables users to divide the cross sections in a number of zones with different bed resistance value
  • New script to model resistance as a function of the various hydraulic parameters during the simulation for every time step
  • New MIKE ECO Lab template to simulate Heat Balance in rivers
  • Decoupling of Advection-Dispersion and MIKE ECO Lab simulations using hydrodynamic result files
  • Added support of forcings varying in time and space for MIKE ECO Lab simulation (e.g. temperature)
  • Added support of 2D data (dfs2) as input to global boundary conditions (rainfall and evaporation), as well as groundwater leakage

MIKE 21

General

  • Includes native support for shapefiles and extended options for .dfs files and .xyz files
  • Specify bed resistance and Infiltration using shapefile polygons without needing to generate roughness maps
  • New depth or flux dependent bed resistance and infiltration rates
  • Full GUI support for AutoMoor mooring systems now included in the MIKE 21 Mooring Analysis module

MIKE 21/3

General

  • A new pure current model for mixed-fraction, multi-layered sediments is now available in the Sand Transport module for the FM hydrodynamic engines (watch the video)
  • It is now possible to run FM simulations with the Transport Module (Advection-Dispersion) using GPU acceleration
  • Special treatment of important infrastructure, with the possibility to define buildings and roads via shapefile inputs
  • New ways to handle effect of raised / lowered roads (and embankments) though the specification of a ground level offset

New ways to handle rain on and flows around and over buildings

  • Rain falling on buildings of a given height can now weir onto surrounding ground
  • A new building run-off factor can delay rainfall runoff from buildings – for example, dealing very simplistically with complex roof construction or green roofs
  • Rain falling on buildings can be retained in the buildings and included in the calculations (mass balance) making it possible to position a MIKE URBAN+ link in the building zone to convey all rainfall to a subsurface drainage network
  • Experience up to 25% reduction in simulation times in the mass budget and discharge calculation in the GPU version
  • Improved GPU timings information in the log file when running the hydrodynamic or transport module
  • Specify line series and discharge series in output from FM engines as a polyline
  • Output the bed resistance coefficient from the FM engines

MIKE 3

General

  • Input of 3D Boundary conditions from a vertical plane series .dfsu file extended to handle the case of sigma/z-level vertical discretisation
  • Specify both structured output (dfs2 file) and unstructured output (.dfsu) in the FM engine
  • Experience up to 10% improvement in performance when using GPU acceleration for hydrodynamic and advection-dispersion modules

MIKE Zero & Toolboxes

General

  • All MIKE Zero front-end applications (excluding MIKE HYDRO) are now optimised for 4K monitors
  • Visualise the new vertical plane series .dfsu file type in the MZ Data Viewer and MZ Plot Composer
  • Supports the binary particle track file format for oil spill, particle tracking and agent-based modelling, ‘.TRACK’ as an input file format for all tools in the MIKE Zero OS/PT Toolbox requiring a particle track file format as input

Extended Data Extraction FM tool includes new output types

  • Vertical plane series
  • Line series specified as a polyline
  • Discharge series specified as a polyline
  • Structured output from 2D and 3D unstructured data inputs