WHAT’S NEW ON IBER
Iber is a two-dimensional software
for the simulation of free surface
flow, morphodynamics, transport
processes (water quality) and habitat
in rivers and estuaries.
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INTRODUCTION
Iber is being enhanced day by day with the introduction of new
calculation parameters and friendlier interfaces, in order to offer a
mayor of possibilities in the field of numerical modelling in hydraulics,
hydrology and eco-hydraulics
The interest of the Team Iber to improve and introduce new
calculation modules and tools, as well as the feedback with the users
of the software through the website www.iberaula.com and
www.ibercursos.com, has allowed to develop the new versions of Iber.
This document shows the last changes of the latest versions of Iber,
and also a record of the changes done in older versions.
RECORD
Iber versions since v2.0:
 Iber v3.1 – (03/12/2021)
 Iber v2.6 – (05/10/2020)
 Iber v2.5.2 – (03/02/2020)
 Iber v2.5.1 – (24/09/2019)
 Iber v2.5 – (21/01/2019)
 Iber v2.4.3 – (18/04/2017)
 Iber v2.4.2 – (10/02/2017)
 Iber v2.4.1 – (09/01/2017)
 Iber v2.4 – (10/10/2016)
 Iber v2.3.2 – (02/12/2015)
 Iber v2.3.1 – (29/06/2015)
 Iber v2.3 – (18/05/2015)
 Iber v2.2 – (02/02/2015)
 Iber v2.1 – (05/11/2014)
 Iber v2.0.3 – (04/07/2014)
 Iber v2.0.2 – (22/04/2014)
 Iber v2.0.1 – (09/12/2013)
 Iber v2.0 – (18/11/2013)
 IBER 3.1 (03/12/2021)
What’s new from v2.6 to v3.1:

 Restructuration of the main interface. Current version shows,

by default, only the hydraulic module. Additional calculation
modules and other capabilities, such us parallelization (GPU),
has to be activated in Plug-ins. Users are allowed to activate
only compatible modules and additional capabilities.
 New GPU parallelization of the code based on Fortran-CUDA
entitled ‘R-Iber’. This version is compatible with the Sediment
Transport and Habitat modules.
 Hydrological processes module has been restructured and
improved with new capabilities. Now, hyetographs can be
implemented isolated, as Thyessen polygon and over specific
surfaces. Losses can be implemented manually, automatically
through raster map or by zones and, additionally, the main
parameters of each losses formula can be multiplied by a
factor. Two new submodules for groundwater flow and soil
water stress simulations.
 Sediment transport module has been restructured and
improved by incorporating a new submodule for bedload
which is able to simulate non-uniform granulometries. Rock
position can be assigned manually or by a raster.
Ashida&Muchiue bedload transport formula added.
Possibility of considerer or not the Einstein partition when
solving the bedload transport equations.
 New module for simulating Soil Erosion processes has been
included into Iber package. This module is able to assess the
soil production and transportation in catchments.
 New module for simulating Urban Drainage processes has
been included into Iber package. This module is able to assess
the dual urban drainage, integrating hydrological and
hydraulic processes in urban areas.

Bugs report and improvements:

 Results tab has been re-organized grouping results by topic.

Flood hazard according to RD 9/2008 and ACA 2003 have
been split, and custom hazard has been included herein. New
possibility of write plain results on specific location (‘Gauges’).
 New method to simulate pressure flow named ‘TPA’ (Two-
Component Pressure Approach). Now, lids are assigned as a
surface condition and the must be activate is Problem Data.
 Culverts and Breaches can be now considered or not for
calculation. Breach and encroachment options are grouped
and organized in a unique menu (Iber Tools).
 Some bugs fixed for LAStoDTM add-on.

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  Appearance of several windows homogenised.
 Bug when opening ‘Information process’ through the shortcut
solved.
 Results to raster tool improved. Now it is faster and more
efficient, and it is able to export current results, on a specific
time step or all of them.
 Bug on Land uses automatic assignation when reading ‘No-
data value’ solved.
 Bugs in the interface when drawing conditions by colours and
when importing GDAL are solved.

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 IBER 2.6 (05/10/2020)
What’s new from v2.5.2 to v2.6:

 Water Quality module has been restructured. Now, all

atmospheric variables can be implemented spatially and
temporally distributed, and it must be only assigned once
 New pollutants in Water Quality module (Phosphorus,
Phytoplankton, pH and Metals)
 New implementations in the Hydrological module. Now the
user can implement the infiltration processes spatially
distributed by raster files (SCS, Lineal model and
Green&Ampt)
 New tool for converting LAZ files into DTM raster files (based
on Spanish Geographical Institute protocols), but also for
converting LAZ into LAS files
 This version of Iber is also available for Linux OS

Bugs report and improvements:

 Some improvements and bug corrections in Habitat module.

 Some improvements in mesh edition (Set Height Constant).
 New renumber tool, more efficient and robust and providing
faster calculationsIBER 2.5.2 (03/02/2020)
Bugs report and improvements:

 Corrections on the “Given level” inlet condition-type

 Some bugs in the “Energy” as a result that do not allowed to
run the simulation when it was enabled
 Some corrections in the translation

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 IBER 2.5.1 (24/09/2019)
What’s new from v2.5 to v2.5.1:

 New structure in the result files. Now the results are written
directly on the Gauss points (NOTE: older versions with mixed
meshes [triangles and quadrilaterals] must be re-calculated
before exporting results to raster)
 The Results to Raster tool has been restructured. Now the
raster files are written in a more efficient and faster way
(NOTE: older versions with mixed meshes [triangles and
quadrilaterals] must be re-calculated before exporting to
raster)
 New tool for mesh editing elevation by height
 New formula for bed sediment transport (Recking)

Bugs report and improvements:

 Some corrections at automatic land use assignation

 Corrections on the “Encroachment” view results (did not affect
the calculation process)
 Some bugs in “Inlet num” corrected
 Internal and boundary conditions have been re-written in a
more efficient way, avoiding some instability problems
 IberHABITAT did not work because “substrate” was not was
not properly activated
 A bug in the Results to Raster tool has been fixed
 Some corrections at names of the results
 Some corrections at unexpected end of calculation process
(now the results are always written)
 Lids were corrected for no calculating when the bottom
elevation of the lid is lower than the terrain
 The DTM importation window allows now to retrieve more file
extensions (*.adf, *.tif, *.png, *.gif, *jpg…) in addition to *.asc
and *.txt ASCII files

IBER 2.5 (21/01/2019)

What’s new from v2.4.3 to v2.5:

 New pre- and post- toolbar

 New module IberHABITAT has been included into Iber pack.
This module is able to assess fish habitat
 New IberPlus GPU-CUDA beta version. This plug-in is
currently in beta version.
 New inlet condition: Stepped discharge
 New internal condition: Mobile gates
 New tool for pre- and post-processing (geometry from points,
topography options, export results, etc.)

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 Bugs report:

 Do not overtop Qmax in rating curves

 Some bugs in lid calculation options have been corrected
 Bedload transport secondary results have been corrected
 Do not collapse when Encroachment option was implemented
 Some corrections at hydrology module (CN)
 Some corrections at inlet/outlet discharge writing

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 IBER 2.4.3 (18/04/2017)

Bug report:

 Some bugs at Sediment transport module has been corrected

 Rain raster reading bug corrected

IBER 2.4.2 (10/02/2017)

Bug report:

 SCS CN infiltration method corrected to be used as non-

infiltration (CN = 100)
 Rain raster reading bug corrected when the raster was too big
 Consideration of gates and weirs as barriers also for Sediment
Transport module

IBER 2.4.1 (09/01/2017)

Bug report:

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

 Losses in Lid tool has been corrected
 Consideration of “Critical diameter” even when the Transport
Module is not enabled
 “Depth vector” result corrected
 Do not collapse when Encroachment option was implemented
 Uninstall option corrected

IBER 2.4 (10/10/2016)

What’s new from v2.3.2 to v2.4:

 Internal conditions were considered now in the Sediment

Transport module
 Possibility to indicate the density of the sediments
 “Critical diameter” result calculated depending on the
Sediment Transport equation chosen
 Sediment Transport subroutine has been re-organized

Bug report:

 Correction in the “Erosion” result writing

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What’s new from v2.3.2 to v2.3.1:

 Baroclinic pressure term in the hydrodynamic equations was

added
 Coriolis effect term in the hydrodynamic equations was added
 Implemented default values for Water Quality module
(OD=ODsat; T = 20 ºC; salinity = 0 g/l)

Bug report:

 Some correction at Gate tool

 Some improvements and corrections at boundary condition
(given level and critical depth)

IBER 2.3.2 (29/06/2015)

What’s new from v2.3.1 to v2.3:

 Memory used for project was increased

Bug report:

 Some bugs in Culvert tool were corrected

IBER 2.3 (18/05/2015)

What’s new from v2.2 to v2.3:

 New Water Quality module which includes Salinity,

Temperature, Escherichia Coli, Dissolved Oxygen, DBO,
Nitrogen as variables
 New DHD numerical scheme implemented for hydrological
calculations
 New Sediment Transport equations for bed load (Engelund-
Hansen and Engelund-Fredsoe)
 Culverts result file re-written

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 IBER 2.2 (02/02/2015)
What’s new from v2.1 to v2.2:

 New script for DTM importation

 New option for Hydrological module: hyetograms by tables
 Hydrographs written at Q_hydrographs.rep
 Rainfall and infiltration time series written at
Hydrology_timeseries.rep

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What’s new from v2.0 to v2.1:

 User-friendly implementations for Breach definition tool

 Possibility to create the mesh directly from RTIN tool
 Levees and Bridges can be defined also in quadrilateral
meshes
 New Personalized hazard table to analyse user-defined hazard
properties
 New Hazard results (RD9/2008)
 New tools for Hydrology module: read of rain rasters
 Some improvements in the interface and calculation modules

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 IBER 2.0 (18/11/2013)

What’s new from v1.9 to v2.0:

 New option at Breach module

 New structures implementation over mesh (bridges and
levees)
 New internal condition: Sources and Sinks
 New interface for Culvert tool
 New boundary condition for Sediment Transport module:
solid – liquid discharge rate
 New tool at post-process to plot graphs in XSections and
profiles
 Dry model by default (h = 0m)
 New improvement to mesh RTIN geometries
 New results for Hazard analysis
 New implementations for Lid tools
 New boundary condition: rating curve (Total discharge)
 Some improvements in the interface and calculation modules

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