CCH has experience with a wide array of software. While we will recommend usage of certain software for your study, we can hit the ground running with any of the following packages if you have particular requirements you need us to conform to.

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Hydraulics Packages

• Mike21FM (+ Mike SDK interface) - a flexible mesh 2D surface water model for use with coastal and inland flooding projects. Benefits from SDK automation to ensure many model runs and automated post processing can be undertaken.
• Other Mike by DHI packages - We have used Mike11 and addon packages such as EcoLAB in the past.
• Flood Modeller - Surface water flood routing models. We have used the 1D engine, the 2D ADI engine, and 1D+2D coupled models
• TUFLOW - 2D surface water grid based modelling package
• Flow3D - An industry favourite with regards to surface water modelling for large hydraulic structures. Full CFD package including additional physics modules such as air entrainment.
• simFlow - Open source CFD modelling solver packaged into an easy-to-use GUI and data visualiser. Uses OpenFOAM, and we can use interFOAM to look at multiphase flows (e.g. for free surfaces) or simpleFOAM for enclosed hydraulic domains (e.g. pipe systems).

Hydrological  Packages

• ReFH2 - The most up to date runoff model calibrated for use in the United Kingdom. We use this for sub-1000 year events throughout the UK, including Scotland.
• FEH Webservice - We use this to acquire our catchment charateristics for the UK. The Isle of Man and Channel Islands are not included in this dataset, so we can use GIS to determine your FEH catchment characteristics if required.
• LowFlows version 2 - An industry favourite for determining catchment flow statistics. High level, but can be easily adopted for determining whether your small hydro scheme will be profitable or whether your catchment has the requisite yield.
• SWAT - Spatially distributed hydrological model for use with large catchments. We can use this for large catchments and systems of subcatchments with satellite based remote sensing data, and globally gridded soils and landuse data.
• HYSIM - A well known rainfall runoff modelling package which uses measurable characteristics.

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GIS and 3D Packages

• ArcGIS - We are experienced users of ArcGIS, in particular with the Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst toolboxes. We can automate your processes with ModelBuilder. We are experienced at handling rasters, vectors, geodatabases, 3D TINs, and NetCDF data.
• Rhinoceros v5 - We can generate 3D STL geometry using Rhino. This is an absolute essential when considering CFD modelling. We can also use this to produce 3D prints.
• QGIS - We've used open source alteratives in the past, but QGIS is our favourite. 
• Automation with GeoPandas/GDAL/OGR - Sometimes automation of your processes in Python makes more sense. We can develop you bespoke automation scripts to use inside a Python environment without the need for a larger GIS package such as Arc or Q

Python and automation

• Python - This is a data scientist favourite. Python benefits from open source development and a large number of libraries with useful functionality. We are experienced with the following libraries:
  • ​NumPy - numerical and matrix based work
  • Pandas - relatable tables
  • GeoPandas - basic GIS functionality with tables
  • GDAL and OGR - more complex GIS functionality
  • Rasterio - handling rasters
  • Imagio - video and image handling
  • Scikit-learn - machine learning pipelines
  • Keras - artificial neural networks
• Scilab - This is an open source variant of Matlab
• Matlab - This is an academic favourite as it focusses less on data manipulation and back-end programming and more on scientific and modelling scripts.