Low Impact Development Options in H2OMAP SWMM and InfoSWMM

Subject:  Low Impact Development Options in H2OMAP SWMM and InfoSWMM

The five options are:

1.       Rain Barrel

2.      Bio Retention Cell

3.      Infiltration Trench

4.      Vegetative Swale

5.      Porous Pavement

and can be entered as controls in the Hydrology Section of the Operations Browser of H2OMAP SWMM or InfoSWMM (Figure 1)

Figure 1.  The Attribute Browser Operation Tab allows you to enter LID Controls for your LID Modeling.

How to Make a SWMM 5 Interface File from InfoSWMM

Subject:  How to Make a SWMM 5 Interface File from InfoSWMM

 The steps are easy:

1.       Make all Links Inactive by using the Facility Manager

2.      Save the flows to the OUTFLOWS file of InfoSWMM

3.      The Outlet Node of Each Subcatchment will be save to the Text File

4.      Use the Created OUTFLOWS file as the INFLOWS file in SWMM5

 

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We understand that our customers are under pressure to deliver quality projects in often demanding timescales and that our software is a big part of their work. As a result this year our European conference has adopted a theme of Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger and an aim to thoroughly equip our users with skills that will assist them from the moment they return to the office and as they plan for the future.

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How are the Orifice Setting Used in SWMM 5 RTC Rules?

Subject:  How is the Orifice Setting Used in SWMM 5 RTC Rules?

 

The Real Time Control Rule for Orifice Setting can be a function of a Setting constant, Setting from a Curve, Setting from a PID controller and a Setting from a Time Series (Figure 1).    The Setting affects the Full Depth of the Orifice at each time step.  The setting which ranges from 0 to 1 can either completely close or open the orifice (Figure 2).    

Figure 1.  The Possibilities for defining the Setting of an Orifice in SWMM 5 from a H2OMAP SWMM RTC dialog.

 

 

 Figure 2.  The Setting affects the Full Depth of the Orifice at each time step.  The setting which ranges from 0 to 1 can either completely close or open the orifice.

How to Simulate Pipe Blockage in InfoSewer

Subject:  How to Simulate Pipe Blockage in InfoSewer

 

For making one or more of your pumps inactive you just need to use the Facility Manager and make the pumps inactive (the grey lines in Figure 2).   The other method of making the gravity mains have a really small diameter will not work as the flow is pushed through anyway and the value of q/Q full is very high.   One way to do what you want to do is to use a Flow Split and make the flow in the blocked link very small as a fraction of the incoming flow.   You will need to add a new link and out fall to handle the excess flow from the pipe blockage (Figure 1). 

 

Figure 2.  Inactive Pumps using Facility Manager.

Figure 1.  Simulated Pipe Blockage using a Flow Split