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SWMM 5 Inlet Control Culvert Equations

Subject:   SWMM 5 Inlet Control Culvert Equations

 

The newer option for SWMM 5 culverts uses three culvert classifications and associated equations to compute the inlet controlled flow into a culvert using the FHWA (1985) equations.  The culvert code in the culvert.c code of SWMM 5 uses:

 

1.   Two Equations for Unsubmerged culvert flow,

2.   One Equation for the Transition flow, and

3.   One Equation for Submerged flow.

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Subject:  SWMM 5 Culvert Data from FHWA, HDS No. 5, Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, 1985

 

If you use the culvert option in later versions of SWMM 5 then when the inlet control equation flow is less than the computed St Venant flow then the FHWA equations will be used for the current iteration in the SWMM 5 Dynamic Wave Solution.

 

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culvert.pdf Download this file

 

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Three Hidden Secrets to Speeding up your SWMM 5, H2OMAP SWMM or InfoSWMM Model

 

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Minimum Time Step               Average Time Step        Maximum Time Step

 

Minimum Time Step (sec)             0.984

Average Time Step (sec)              9.071

Maximum Time Step (sec)            30.000

Percent in Steady State (%)          0.000

Average Iterations per Time Step  4.821


Use a maximum time that will lower your average iterations per time step to speed up the simulation,decrease the maximum time step to lower the number of iterations, use equivalent conduit lengthening to increase

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 the minimum time step, the model is fastest if the minimum and maximum time steps are not too small or large compared to the average time step.  Adjust the stopping toleranceand the number of iterations if you can to speed up your model

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You can also decrease the number of iterations or the stopping tolerance to speed up the model or improve the continuity error of the model.   If you are doing a continuous simulation then you can have a reduced graphical output data set to speed up the simulation

  

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If you have a duo or quad core computer another option to speed up the simulations is to use 1, 2, 3 or 4 cores for the simulation

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Subject:  Elevation Interpolation from a Contour in H2OMAP SWMM

 

The node invert elevation or the node maximum depth can be interpolated if you use the Elevation Interpolation Tool in H2OMAP SWMM.

 

Steps

Action

1.   Make a Contour Plot of the Node Invert Elevations.

 

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2.   The Created Contours are now a layer in H2OMAP SWMM.

 

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3.   Recreate the Invert Elevation from the Contour by using the Value Field and Interpolate Field.

 

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4.   You can  also estimate the Maximum Depth of the Node from the Contour and the known Node Invert Elevation.

 

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Subject:  How to see what you have in the various scenarios of InfoSWMM

  

How to see what you have in the various scenarios – a tool I use a lot is Scenario Explorer which shows you how to see the various datasets associated with a data set along with the relationship between the Base and Various Child Scenarios.

 

 

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Innovyze Launches Global Channel Partner Recruitment Initiative To Support Growing Demand 

With Keys to Entire Portfolio, Enhanced Partner Program Gives Customers More Choice and Spearheads Broad Recruitment Drive

 

Broomfield, Colorado USA, November 1, 2011 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced a targeted global drive to recruit strategic channel partners to bring the benefits of its comprehensive, best-in-class product portfolio to an even wider audience. The company is looking to more than double its partner ecosystem over the next three years and is particularly interested in channel partnerships that help cover geographies and specific sub-markets where it currently does not have a strong direct presence. These areas include Central Europe and parts of Eastern Europe; Scandinavia; South America; and parts of Southeast Asia including India, Indochina, Brunei, and Indonesia.

“With the recent release of our industry-leading analytics-centric asset management product line, the opportunities for Innovyze and our partner ecosystem are phenomenal,” said Adam Simonsen, Director of Marketing and Partners & Alliances at Innovyze. “We see high-value channel partnerships as another avenue to help us provide superior solutions and an outstanding customer experience to a broader audience. Unlike some vendors, we greatly value quality over quantity, preferring to work closely with a small number of dedicated partners who are well aligned with our products and share our vision and commitment to the industries we serve. We look forward to extending that network of partners over the coming months.”

Innovyze’s product mix consists of software designed for water, wastewater, stormwater and river systems modeling and management; asset management and performance modeling; real-time flood forecasting and warning; real-time operations and security; and capital planning. The company has already built a very strong channel network, choosing partners that have both superb technical skill and understanding of their customers’ core businesses. This expansion will aim to maintain that benchmark without compromise.

Innovyze has a well-established customer base in all sectors from education to government and utilities to professional engineering services firms. It comprises over 10,000 users worldwide, including nine of the top ten U.S. cities, ten of the top ten cities in Australia, and all water companies in the UK. Innovyze channel partners benefit from incentives, selling-critical tools and comprehensive training designed to help them rapidly grow their businesses around Innovyze products. They are able to capitalize on the company’s heavy investment in innovation in the areas of sophisticated systems dynamics and business analytics. They include its recently released analytics-centric asset management package for the water and wastewater industries, encompassing multiple solutions that work together seamlessly.

Selected partners will complete a formal training and certification process and have the opportunity to participate in customer seminars and road shows.

Thomas Turner-Burkitt, who became the Innovyze channel partner for Benelux in 2009, commented, “Innovyze offers by far the best products in its industry. Its rapidly growing customer base now includes eight of the top ten cities in Belgium and seven of the top ten cities in the Netherlands. Selling and supporting this company’s high industry standards has allowed me to have a major impact on the quality of life in these countries.”

Miroslav Tesarik who just became a channel partner for the Czech Republic, added, “There has never been a more exciting time to partner with Innovyze, which has emerged as the technology partner of choice for the smallest to the largest utility organizations. Its success is easy to understand. Innovyze is the only company in our industry that provides best-of-breed solutions backed with world-class technical support. It is also the only firm that offers a complete, vertically integrated stack, giving customers total choice of deployment platform. It’s an honor to partner with a company committed to making such a positive difference in the world.”

Jeff Booth, president of Jeff Booth Consulting Ltd., who joined Innovyze channel network in 2001, noted, “Being able to deliver these vanguard solutions to New Zealand is truly a privilege. The range of cities already committed to Innovyze, including nine of the top ten cities in the country, makes it clear that this is the software of choice for our industry.”

Chris Baxter, Ph.D., President of HYDRANNT Consulting Inc., who became the company’s channel partner for Canada in 2002, added, “In a very short period, Innovyze has become the undisputed market leader in Canada. It clients range from the smallest municipalities to the largest urban centers including Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary and the nation’s capital Ottawa. The company’s relentless innovation and high-touch customer support are simply unparalleled in our industry. These factors and more set the standard in this field.”

Companies interested in learning more about channel partnership opportunities with Innovyze should contact Adam Simonsen at Adam.Simonsen@innovyze.com.

 

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Innovyze Releases InfoWater Generation V8.5

Innovyze Releases InfoWater Generation V8.5,
Defining New Era of Leadership in Analytics-Centric Asset Management

Latest Release Equips Communities with Groundbreaking Valve Criticality Assessment Power

Broomfield, Colorado USA, October 25, 2011 — In its ongoing quest to equip the global water industry with the world’s most powerful and comprehensive GIS-centric infrastructure modeling and management solutions, Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the worldwide availability of the V8.5 Generation of InfoWater for ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA). InfoWater has long been renowned for its legendary power, speed, and comprehensive toolsets and extensions. With this release, Innovyze has further refined the superb water supply and distribution modeling and analysis features that have helped make the software a leading choice among the world’s top water utilities.

Built atop ArcGIS, InfoWater seamlessly integrates sophisticated analytics, systems dynamics and optimization functionality directly within the ArcGIS setting. From fire flow and water quality simulations, valve criticality and energy cost analysis to pressure zone management and advanced Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm optimization, the InfoWater product suite comes equipped with everything water utility owner-operators need to best plan, design, operate, secure and sustain their distribution systems. The software also serves as a base platform for advanced modeling, operational, and capital planning extensions. Among these critical applications are IWLive (real-time operations and security), InfoWater UDF (unidirectional flushing); CapPlan (risk-based capital planning); InfoWater MSX (multi-species, temperature, and particle transport/deposition modeling); InfoSurge (surge/transient analysis); and Sustainability (carbon footprint calculation).

Users will discover a variety of improvements in network analysis and valve criticality assessment throughout InfoWater V8.5. For example, when a network simulation terminates prematurely at any specific time during an extended period simulation (EPS), users can now view all the temporal results up to that point. GIS layers (feature classes) representing isolation valves can now be directly utilized for identifying the ones that most critically affect the scale or impact of any potential distribution system outage. An improved algorithm then automatically pinpoints all critical valves as well as all pipes with flow reversal caused by valve operation. Since flow reversal is an indicator of sediment resuspension and subsequent water quality complaints, the new functionality allows utility operational and field staff to run a simulation on a mobile device before operating any valve to understand its resulting impact. By determining critical valves in this way, water utility owner-operators can effectively prioritize expenditures on solutions like maintenance, replacement, SCADA, motorization, and control, and optimal placement of new valves. Users can also create countless “what if” scenarios that quickly model the effect a proposed design or operational change could have on the entire system and its customers. The result is better, more accurate valve criticality assessments completed more quickly, with improved efficiencies, operations and customer satisfaction at every step.

These enhancements propel the InfoWater family of solutions into the next generation, carrying on Innovyze’s time-honored practice of continually adding critical value to its software and bringing unsurpassed modeling and design capabilities into the mainstream. The suite has the robustness and feature set needed to handle the most demanding analyses. Yet it’s intuitive enough for a new user to master without a drawn-out learning curve, making it the ultimate GIS-centric decision support tool for water supply and distribution systems. Like all Innovyze products, it’s backed by unparalleled high-touch technical support. For an even faster return on investment, organizations may opt to call on Innovyze Implementation Services to accelerate deployment, integration and implementation of best modeling practices.

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Subject:  How to see the effect of the Pump Setting in the RTC Rules of InfoSWMM and H20MAP SWMM

 

Step 1.   Pump Startup and Shutoff Depth

 

Depths to turn the Pump On and turn the Pump Off.  In this example, the pump will be off when the Wet Well Depth is less than 2 feet, the Pump will be off between a Wet Well Depth between 2 and 5.75 feet if the Pump is currently Off and the Pump will be On between a Wet Well Depth between 5.75 and 2 feet.

 

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Step 2.   RTC Rule for the Pump Setting when the Wet Well Depth is less than 6.25 feet.  We need to add the AND statement so that the setting is only reset when the Pump is On.   You do not want the pump setting to be reset when the pump should be off.

 

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Result 1:  The Pump Speed Ratio tells you the Pump Setting

 

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Result 2:  RTC Control Rules in the RPT File if you click on Show Control Actions

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Result 3:   The depth at the Wet Well and the Flow in the Pump

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 Result 4:  A mixed graph of the Wet Well Depth and Pump Flow shows the effect of the RTC.

 

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Result 5:  The RTC Rule can also been seen flow to the Pump Curve.

 

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Variable Time Step in SWMM 5

 Variable Time Step in SWMM 5

 

v  The goal of the link lengthening in SWMM 5 it to meet the CFL time step condition for the full link depth and full link velocity at the chosen lengthening time step.  If the link does not meet the CFL condition then this means the time step needed is smaller than your selected lengthening time step.  SWMM 5 will make an hydraulically equivalent longer link with a smaller roughness but the same full flow velocity as the shorter link.

 

v  If you are running a simulation in which all of the pipes are exactly full – no surcharge in any pipe – and the variable time step then there would be no need for SWMM 5 to use anything other than the minimum of the routing or lengthening time step.  However, since most real networks have a mixture of partial flow, surcharged flow and pressure flow, the actual time step depth, velocity/Froude Number is different than the assumed full depth and full flow velocity.  For example, the depth can be higher at one end of the pipe and the velocity higher than full flow velocity due to the water surface slope being higher than the bed slope.  The only way SWMM 5 can now satisfy the CFL time step condition since the modified length is fixed is to lower the variable time step.

 

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Innovyze President Dr. Paul F. Boulos to Chair AMIDEAST Lebanon Advisory Board 

 

Broomfield, Colorado USA, October 11, 2011 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced that its President and COO, Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., Hon.D.WRE, F.ASCE, has been elected Chairman of AMIDEAST Lebanon Advisory Board (ALAB). AMIDEAST is a private, nonprofit organization focused on strengthening mutual understanding and cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Dr. Boulos was selected by the ALAB Nominating Committee to assist the organization in its pursuit of excellence and propel it to greater achievements. Dr. Boulos has served since 2008 on the AMIDEAST Board of Directors (Washington, D.C.), which is responsible for governing the organization. Also elected as Vice Chairmen were Salim Sfeir, Chairman and CEO of Bank of Beirut, one of Lebanon’s leading commercial banks, and Anis Nassar, Chairman of Anis Nassar Group of Companies.

AMIDEAST’s President and CEO Ambassador Theodore H. Kattouf said, “AMIDEAST is pleased and honored to have at the helm of its Advisory Board in Lebanon a man of Dr. Boulos’s vision of expanding educational and professional opportunities for Lebanon’s young people. Since Dr. Boulos joined the AMIDEAST Board in 2008, the entire organization has greatly benefited from his proven leadership in technology, business, and philanthropy, as well as his extensive knowledge of the Middle East and North Africa. His energetic commitment to our educational mission is reflected in the prodigious amount of time and effort he has devoted to forming and now leading this Advisory Board. We are fortunate that he is willing to bear such heavy responsibilities.”

Dr. Boulos will draw on a distinguished career and vast leadership experience in his new role. A renowned international authority on water resources engineering, he is noted for his practical and scientific expertise and his extensive experience in both academe and the corporate world. He has been invited to speak at many noted organizations focused on science, entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and featured in many business and professional magazines and newspapers. He is the co-author of nine authoritative books and more than two hundred technical articles on water and wastewater engineering.

A fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Dr. Boulos has received many industry honors, including awards for excellence in scholarship from national and international scientific and engineering societies and accolades from government and research organizations and NGOs. Among these acknowledgements are notable technical awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Water Works Association and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2008, he received the Ray R. Irani Pride of Heritage Award (fourth recipient) from the Lebanese American Foundation (House of Lebanon) and the Alumni of the Year Award from the Lebanese American University for extraordinary professional achievement. He was awarded Honorary Diplomate status (Hon.D.WRE) by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, the academy’s highest honor, for attaining a position of eminence in the water resources engineering profession. In 2009, he was presented the distinguished U.S. Ellis Island Medal of Honor, one of America’s highest honors. In 2010, he was inducted into the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Hall of Distinction, the most prestigious honor given by the university to its alumni.

Dr. Boulos serves on the Board of Directors of Innovyze and MWH Global, the Board of Trustees of the Lebanese American University, and the Dean’s International Council of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the advisory boards of many organizations, including the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, MI), the Civil and Environmental Engineering School of the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), the Buck Institute for Research on Aging (Novato, CA), the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (Washington, D.C.).

“Serving as chair of the AMIDEAST Lebanon Advisory Board is an important responsibility and a great honor,” said Boulos. “Despite exceptionally challenging economic, social, institutional and political conditions in the MENA region, AMIDEAST has remained steadfastly committed to promoting progressive education and enabling people in the region to gain access to the best of U.S. education and expertise. I look forward to working with the advisory board members and the administration in preserving that legacy and improving the educational systems and cross-cultural understanding in this important world region. By widening the vision of life’s potential among the youth of Lebanon, many of whom will become future leaders of their society, we can make meaningful strides toward building a better world for the greater good.”

Former U.S. Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State Robert H. Pelletreau added, “Dr. Boulos, through his dynamism, vision and deep concern to improve educational opportunities for Lebanon's youth, was the unanimous choice to head the ALAB. AMIDEAST is grateful for his leadership, commitment and support.”

Founded in 1951, AMIDEAST (America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.) provides English language and professional skills training, educational advising, and testing services to hundreds of thousands of students and professionals in the Middle East and North Africa every year. It also supports numerous institutional development projects in the region and administers U.S. scholarships and educational exchange programs such as the flagship U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Foreign Student Program.

The organization is headquartered in Washington, DC, with a network of field offices in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank/Gaza and Yemen. Its Lebanon Advisory Board, launched in 2010, is composed of prominent American and Lebanese business and civic leaders who help guide AMIDEAST strategy and outreach in Lebanon. A complete list of both AMIDEAST and ALAB board members can be found on the organization’s website, www.amideast.org.

 

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Hello:

 

I am wondering how the "mass reacted" is calculated. I am getting results that don't really make sense. I am guessing it has something to do with the way I wrote my treatment expressions.

 

Also, I am trying to express the nitrification process (assuming a 90% conversion of NH4+ to NO3-). I have defined the rain concen. of the NH4+ ("X"). In the subsequent layer, I want the converted concen. of the NH4+ (0.90*X) to be added to the rain concen. of NO3- (defined as "Y"). What is the best way to express this in a treatment expression?

 

 

Thanks,

Michelle

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Subject:   Reading the Output of Older SWMM 5 versions in Newer SWMM 5 Versions

 

It is very easy to read the output graphs and output text file from older versions of SWMM 5 in newer versions of SWMM 5 as long as the rules are followed:

 

1.   You need to have the RPT file for the InputFileName or InputFileName.RPT

2.   You need to have the OUT file for the InputFileName or InputFileName.OUT

3.   The File Size for InputFileName.RPT is greater than 0

4.   The Run Status for InputFileName.OUT is true based on the tests in CheckRunStatus

a.       // Starting from end of file, read byte offsets of file's sections

b.       // Read # time periods, error code & file signature

c.       // Read file signature & version number from start of file

d.       // Check if run was completed

e.       // Check if results were saved for 1 or more time periods

f.        // Check if correct version was used

g.       // Check if error messages were generated

 

Figure 1.   The RPT File or OUT File is not saved unless you 1st save the Current Simulation Results.

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Figure 2.   The binary output file of SWMM 5.0.013 in SWMM 5.0.022

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Colorado’s Largest Combined Water and Sanitation District Turns to Innovyze
to Optimize Decision Making
 

Advanced GIS-Centric System Dynamics to Enhance Capital and Business Planning

 

Broomfield, Colorado USA, September 20, 2011 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced that the South Adams County Water and Sanitation District (SACWSD), Colorado, has selected Innovyze’s InfoSewer to support its comprehensive wastewater system improvement projects.

Formed in 1953, the district serves water and provides wastewater collection services in the City of Commerce City and adjacent areas of unincorporated Adams County. It is presently the largest combined Water and Sanitation District in the state of Colorado, covering over 65 square miles and serving nearly 50,000 customers. Its wastewater collection system consists of over 300 miles of sewer mains, ranging from 8” to 30” in diameter.

“Effectively managing our wastewater collection system requires sophisticated network analysis and GIS integration capabilities — and Innovyze InfoSewer superbly combines both these strengths,” said Jim Pankonin, P.E., Distribution & Collection Systems Manager for SACWSD. “The software’s ease of use and intuitive interface, seamless ArcGIS integration, speed, and broad functionality will allow us to create a powerful enterprise wide engineering GIS modeling environment — one that will greatly enhance our effectiveness in managing our wastewater system and planning for the future. We look forward to fully leveraging this superior technology to optimize our capital improvement program and continue delivering outstanding service to our customers.”

Built atop ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA) with native geodatabase support, InfoSewer is used by municipal engineers, consultants, and planners worldwide to create detailed, accurate models of sanitary and storm sewer collection systems. These models enable users to assess the effect of new developments, zoning changes, and other additional loads on system flows. They also help pinpoint current and future problem areas; determine how best to restore capacity lost to infiltration and inflow with the least rehabilitation; predict unwanted overflow events and backups; develop sound, cost-effective improvement alternatives; meet environmental regulations; and enhance community relations.

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All Possible Culverts Example Model in SWMM5

Note:  Attached is an example SWMM 5 model that has all 57 culvert types possible in SWMM 5 in one model.  The culverts are 57 small individual networks consisting of an inflow node, an upstream open channel, upstream node for the culvert, culvert link with culvert code, downstream node of the culvert, downstream open channel and finally an outfall node.  The culvert code and the shape of the culvert determine which FHWA equation is used to determine the flow INTO the Culvert during the simulation:

 1.   The flow from the St Venant Equation or

2.   The flow from the FHWA equation

 The minimum flow is used by the program. 

 

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all_culverts.inp Download this file

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Note:   How Dry Weather Flow is Used in InfoSWMM at a Node

 

There are four components to the Dry Weather Flow (DWF) in InfoSWMM:

 

1.       The mean flow in user units at the node,

2.      The DWF Allocation Code – if you are using the DWF Allocator

3.      The Pattern for Weekday, Weekend etc for the mean flow.

 

The data is entered or entered for you in the Node Inflow Icon or the Operations Tab of the Attribute Browser

 

Node Inflow Icon and Associated Data

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Operation Tab Patterns

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You can also make global changes to your DWF using the Node DWF DB Table Under Extended Element Modeling Data

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Note:  SWMM5 Weir Rules and Head Calculations

 

This note attempts to explain both how the head upstream and the head downstream of a weir in SWMM 5 is calculated compared to the weir crest elevation and also to explain how the weir is presented in the HGL plot of SWMm 5.  There has been confusion in the past concering how the weir is shown compared to the actual weir calculations.  The node head is calculated obviously at both ends of the weir but the head over the weir is always based on H1-Crest or H2-Crest (Figure 1) and hence the weir should look flat – to the weir the downstream head is important but NOT the downstream node invert so the weir really is flat and should look flat in the HGL Profile across the weir (Figure 2).    The crest elevation is always relative to the upstream node invert elevation NOT the downstream node invert elevaation

 

Figure 1.  How the Head across a Weir is calculated in SWMM 5

 

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Figure 2.   HGL Profile across a Weir in SWMM 5.0.022.  The black line should be shown flat.

 

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Innovyze Strengthens its Business Analytics Asset Performance Modeling Technology with
InfoNet Generation V12
 

New Tools for Managing Water Distribution and Stormwater Collection Data,
Improved Esri Integration Headline Latest Version

 

Broomfield, Colorado USA, September 13, 2011 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the release of InfoNet Generation V12, its industry-leading asset performance modeling solution. Benefits throughout the latest release include a variety of customer-requested functionalities for improving the management and operation of water, wastewater, and stormwater networks and positively impacting users every day.

InfoNet is a purpose-built asset performance modeling and data analysis and management system for water distribution, wastewater collection and stormwater networks. Among its numerous advantages, the software enables users to manage, integrate, validate, analyze and report on their network data to provide accurate, up-to-date, auditable information on network infrastructure and performance in formats that are easy to use and comprehend. InfoNet ensures informed, swift and cost-effective decision making for both day-to-day operational management and long-term network planning. It also enables users to integrate a host of different applications and data sets they already use, including generic GIS, corporate databases, maintenance management systems, field data systems, SCADA, hydraulic modeling/analysis software and other corporate applications. This integration helps them ensure that managers have a single clear picture of their network infrastructures. The software can also directly integrate to the Esri (Redlands, CA) ArcGIS (9.x-10) platform.

InfoNet gives engineers the ability to analyze all aspects of the network life cycle. Users can call on its robust query engine to filter, sort, and make complex selections based on virtually any criteria related to their underground assets. It also has the unique ability to query against field surveys (CCTV, manhole inspections, smoke testing, valve inspections, etc.) and other events related to network assets.

The InfoNet geospatial environment also lets the user create vivid thematic maps with flexible symbology and rich detail. Its built-in report generator comes with dozens of standard reports and allows users to quickly build custom reports and graphs against any piece of data stored in the system.

InfoNet V12 better supports the asset performance modeling of storm water networks with the addition of object types for storage areas and outlets. In addition, it now supports a specific connection pipe object to demonstrate connections between properties or system inlets to the main network.

As water systems continue to embrace more proactive maintenance and leak detection programs, InfoNet has added the functionality to support hydrant maintenance activities and leak detection surveys. With these objects, users import or connect to the data from their field systems directly to InfoNet for analysis and performance assessment. CCTV survey support has been modified with updates to the United States PACP standard and the additional of the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association defect scoring standards.

A new object entitled Asset Name Groups has also been added. It allows different naming schemes for assets within a network, since assets may be known by different names in different contexts. For example, a building project may have plans that number assets using a completely different naming scheme from that used in the InfoNet database. Asset Name Groups are used to map IDs associated with local naming schemes to the object IDs used in the InfoNet database.

Integration with the Esri ArcGIS platform makes it easier for users to build and integrate their modeling results into their enterprise environments. The new version includes options to use ArcGIS Server map services to display background map layers and ArcEngine map controls for offline viewing of background layers. There is also additional support for ArcGIS 10 datasets.

For a complete listing of new features, visit the “What’s New” section of the online help for InfoNet V12.

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