Subject:  SWMM 5 Precipitation Options 

You can have design storms, monitored storms of any length of the time from minutes to centuries, use intensity, volume or cumulative precipitation, use both rainfall and snowfall in the same rain gage depending on temperature, use both time series or external files for the rain gage and have unlimited rain gages with the limitation of one rain gage per subcatchment.  …

Subject:  Force Main Friction Loss in InfoSWMM and the Transition from Partial to Full Flow

You can model Force Main friction loss in InfoSWMM using either Darcy Weisbach or Hazen Williams as the full pipe friction loss method (see Figure 1 for the internal definition of full flow).   A function called…

Subject:  SWMM 5 Leaping Weir Example

The attached example shows one way how SWMM 5 RTC Rules can be used to have the low flow go down a leaping weir orifice and the high flow go over the weir to the downstream section of the sewer. 

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Subject:   Example  DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER APPROXIMATION FOR SUBSURFACE FLOW Model in SWMM 5

This example was created from an older SWMM 4 model from 1988 using the SWMM 4 to SWMM 5 converter.  The values for the coefficients in this case are A1 = A3 = 4*K/L^2, A2 = 0, B1 or the exponent or B1=2 or from Appendix X in the SWMM 4 manual from OSU (…

Subject:   Example Groundwater Model in SWMM 5

The attached model shows three ways in which the groundwater model of the SWMM 5 subcatchments interact with the node depths of the hydraulic network.  The hydraulic network interaction can be either: 

1.       At a fixed water surface elevation,

2.       At a time varying water…

Subject: Example SWMM 5 Snowmelt Model

Attached is a simple sample snowmelt model in SWMM 5 that has built in snowfall and temperature in a one subcatcment model with snowmelt.   You define the separation of precipitation into snowfall and rainfall by setting a base temperature in the Snow Pack Editor.   The precipitation that falls with when the air temperature is below the base temperature is stored in a snow pack where it eventually will melt when…

Subject:   Runoff Routing Options Example in SWMM 5

There are six options for runoff routing in SWMM 5:

·         All Runoff to an Outlet Node

·         All Runoff to another Subcatchment

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Subject:   Example FM SWMM 5 model with and without Surcharge Depth

You need to use the surcharge depth for a Force Main in SWMM 5 to allow the engine to find the right point on the pump curve and pump up the rising main.  If you do not use a surcharge depth then the flow MAY be very small in the rising main due to a small head difference.  Of course the flow in the force main depends on the pump curve you have entered but having the right…