This document provides an overview of the programme for the 2014 MIKE by DHI UK Symposium, taking place over two days at Coombe Abbey Hotel in Warwickshire, UK. Day 1 includes presentations on a variety of topics such as modelling extreme water levels, tidal calibrations, flood risk assessments, typhoon risk estimation, sediment transport modelling, real-time flood forecasting, and more. Day 2 focuses on breakout groups for marine, water resources and groundwater modelling and includes sessions on topics like wave transformation, integrated catchment modelling, and using Python with MIKE SDK.

1. PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
2014 MIKE BY DHI UK SYMPOSIUM
COOMBE ABBEY HOTEL, WARWICKSHIRE, UK
Day 1 - Tuesday 13 May 2014
08:45 - 09:30 Registration and Coffee
09:30 - 09.45
Opening and Welcome!
Steve Flood (UK MIKE by DHI Manager) & Erland Rasmussen (Executive Vice President, MIKE by DHI)
09.45 - 10.30
Release 2014 News & Views in the Marine, Urban and Water Resources areas
Poul Kronborg (Business Area Manager, Coast and Sea, MIKE by DHI) & Torben S. Jensen (Business Area Manager,
Water Resources, MIKE by DHI)
10:30 - 10:50
Modelling Extreme Water Levels in the Swan and Canning Rivers, Perth, WA
Alan Forster (URS)
10:50 - 11:10
Water Level and Tidal Current Calibrations of the Ramsey Bay Model
Yiping Chen (Hyder Consulting)
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee & cakes!
11:30 - 11:50
Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Studies in Ireland
Stephen Patterson (RPS)
11:50 - 12:10
Using MIKE 21 for the Estimation of Japan Typhoon Risk
Juergen Grieser (RMS)
12:10 - 12:30
Developing Useful Estuarine Sediment Transport Models: Improving Model Outputs by Improving Model Inputs
Kevin Black (Partrac)
12:30 - 13:40 Lunch and plenty of time for informal chats and discussions!
13:40 - 14:00
Ngqura Harbour Wave Modelling
Shirin Costa (Mott MacDonald)
14:00 - 14:20
Real Time Flood Forecasting in the Environment Agency
Clifford Williams (Environment Agency)
14:20 - 14:40
Supporting Red Sea Hydrographic Survey Services: Water Level Modelling
Ambre Trehin & Zhong Peng (Fugro Geos)
14:40 - 15:00
From Hazard to Impact: The CORFU Flood Damage Assessment Tool
Albert Chen (University of Exeter)
15:00 - 15:20 Tea & biscuits!
15:20 - 15:40
Just how severe was the 2013/14 winter and how did the Met Office wave model perform?
Adam Leonard-Williams (Met Office)
15:40 - 16:00
Integrated Catchment and Estuary Modelling
Ann Saunders (Intertek)
16:00 - 16:20
Riverine Water Quality Modelling, with Focus on Nutrients Using MIKE 11 ECO Lab
Vera Jones (Atkins)
16:20 - 16:40
Teaching with MIKE by DHI
Björn Elsäßer (Queen’s University Belfast)
16:40 - 17:00
A short talk on mapping bathymetry and coastal environments from space (...followed by wrap-up & introduction to Day 2)
Mikael Kamp Sørensen (DHI-GRAS)
19:30 - Dinner at the venue
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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW (CONT.)
Day 2 - Wednesday 14 May 2014
09:00 - 09:30 Registration and welcome coffee
Marine Focus Group
Lead Trainer:
Poul Kronborg (Business Area
Manager, Coast and Sea, DHI)
Water Resources Focus Group
Lead Trainer:
Torben S. Jensen (Business Area
Manager, Water Resources, DHI)
Groundwater Focus Group
Lead Trainer:
Christian Tomsu (Senior Engineer,
DHI-WASY)
09:30 - 11:00
Wave transformation, overtopping of
coastal defences and flooding (MIKE 21
BW 1D & MIKE 21 HD FM)
Dr Suzie Clarke & Matt Easton (DHI)
Fully integrated riverine, urban pipe &
overland flow flood modelling (MIKE
FLOOD 3-way coupling)
Mark Britton & Steve Flood (DHI)
News on FEFLOW 6.2, new features,
new functions, new workflows
Christian Tomsu (DHI-WASY)
11.00 - 11.20 Coffee & cakes!
11:20 - 12:00
Wave transformation, overtopping of
coastal defences and flooding (MIKE 21
BW 1D & MIKE 21 HD FM)
Dr Suzie Clarke & Matt Easton (DHI)
Introduction to MIKE CUSTOMISED Real
Time Flood Forecasting followed by Q&A
session
Kristian Thage (DHI)
Setting up a steady FEFLOW model
from scratch using the new functionality
& setting up a transient model, varying
boundary conditions, varying material
parameters, evaluate results, display
results (2D/3D)
Christian Tomsu (DHI-WASY)12:00 - 12:30
Enhancing productivity with the
Python programming language (MIKE
SDK)
James Tomlinson (Atkins)
Rain on mesh, and implementation of
buildings in mesh and grids.
Mark Britton & Steve Flood (DHI)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Introduction to the MIKE
CUSTOMISED Bathing Water
Forecasting System followed by Q&A
session
Anders Chr. Erichsen (DHI)
New productivity tools for MIKE FLOOD
(including an ISIS to MIKE 11 converter)
Mark Britton (DHI)
Setting up mass transport in the model
(commenting upon heat transport)
Christian Tomsu (DHI-WASY)
15:00 - 15:20 Tea & biscuits!
15:20 - 16:30
Scour calculation tool and other tips,
tricks and new features (MIKE 21/3)
Poul Kronborg (DHI)
Tips, tricks and new features (incl.
Introduction to MIKE HYDRO River)
Torben S. Jensen (DHI)
Questions, tips and tricks
Christian Tomsu (DHI-WASY)
16:30 - 16:45 Wrap up, goodbye - and see you next year!
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Ocean Village Innovation Centre
Ocean Way
Southampton
SO14 3JZ
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 (0)2380 381961
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2014 is a special year for DHI. During the User Group Meeting, we hope that you will help us to celebrate our 50th
Anniversary!
On the 25th of February, half a century ago, DHI was established as The Hydraulic Engineering Institute – an
offshoot of the Technical University of Denmark. Initially, the conceptual basis was to combine calculations of
underwater currents with large model tests, so that the impact of waves and currents in harbours and on
coasts could be explored. At a time when physical models were perceived to be the only option, DHI was one
of the inventors of computational hydraulics. The roots of DHI's commercial software can be traced back to
1970 - starting with System 11 and System 21 (later MIKE 11 and MIKE 21) for mainframe computers. MIKE
by DHI software is still being developed and reinvented today, and is an important tool in making our 50-
years of knowledge globally accessible.
THE ACADEMY BY DHI
THE ACADEMY offers a palette of courses and capacity building packages designed to fit your
needs and challenges. Our training courses are offered as standard and/or as tailored training.
MIKE by DHI courses focus on practical skills, hands-on exercises and on teaching you how to
get the most out of your software.
Thematic courses allow you to apply concepts, applications and decision support principles to
the entire business process within current areas such as aquaculture & agriculture, energy,
climate change, flooding, coast & marine, surface & groundwater, urban water, industry,
environment & ecosystems, product safety & environmental risk, etc.
MIKE CUSTOMISED by DHI courses enable you to understand the power of the MIKE
CUSTOMISED tools for building decision support systems.
Our trainers are experienced professionals, many of whom are recognised international
experts in their fields. The consistent use of highly skilled trainers guarantees the quality of THE
ACADEMY courses.

3. SELECTED ABSTRACTS
Using MIKE 21 for the Estimation of Japan Typhoon Risk
Juergen Grieser (RMS)
Japan is very well defended against storm surges. Sea defences are up to 18m high. Risk Management Solutions (RMS) esti-
mates the risk of storm surges for Japan in a hybrid approach. MIKE21FM and MIKE21SW are driven with a stochastic set of
typhoon tracks. Based on the EurOtop Manual open-ocean wave characteristics are converted into wave characteristics directly
at the defences. Defence overtopping rates and/or breaching is described by parameterizations. Various inundation scenarios
are estimated using graphical processing units (GPUs) which run considerably faster than CPUs.
Water Level and Tidal Current Calibrations of the Ramsey Bay Model
Yiping Chen (Hyder Consulting)
The presentation will cover the construction of the MIKE21 FMHD Irish Sea model, which provides coastal boundary conditions
to drive the Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, local model. In particular, the presentation will focus on water level calibrations using the
available tide gauge data and tidal current calibrations using continuous ADCP measured data at 2 locations for 30 days. The
calibrated model was then used for sea outfall dispersion modelling study to assess the potential impact of the new Ramsey
coastal outfall and CSOs and to predict the compliance to the new EU Bathing Water Quality Objectives.
Real Time Flood Forecasting in the Environment Agency
Clifford Williams (Modelling and Forecasting, Environment Agency)
In the context of the recent winter floods and storm surges, the presentation will focus upon flood forecasting systems used by
the Environment Agency, how the Environment Agency interfaces with the Met Office, the hydraulic models used by the Environ-
ment Agency (incl. MIKE 11) and how the service is delivered (e.g. to Flood Resilience Teams).
Supporting Red Sea Hydrographic Survey Services: Water Level Modelling
Ambre Trehin & Zhong Peng, (Fugro Geos)
Fugro GEOS Ltd was commissioned to produce an operational water level model of the Red Sea using MIKE21 HD FM in order
to support a bathymetry survey that will be undertaken along the Saudi Arabian coasts over 2014/2015. The hydrodynamic com-
plexity of the Red Sea (presence of an amphidrome, large surge variations), as well as the client specifications regarding the
allowed error, make this project very challenging.
Developing Useful Estuarine Sediment Transport Models: Improving Model Outputs by Improving Model Inputs
Kevin Black (Partrac)
The utility of any model is a direct function of the quality of the inputs provided to the model. Almost everything related to confi-
dence in the model thus depends on the quality and range of data used to calibrate and validate the model. This presentation
seeks to summarise the mainstream, and less well known, marine tools and instruments that can provide nearly all of the re-
quired inputs for modern sediment transport models. It will provide a framework for collection of data and outline some of the
practicalities of collecting this data.
Ngqura Harbour Wave Modelling
Shirin Costa (Mott MacDonald)
MIKE 21 BW modelling was undertaken to compare and contrast the potential changes to the wave climate within the port of
Ngqura, South Africa. The modelling formed the basis of a comparative study, primarily considering the effect of different port
layouts.