Software for Hydraulic Modelling of Stormwater Runoff in Planned Urban Areas

What’s the go-to software (2d-hydraulic modeling software) to use for simulating consequences from big rainfalls in planned urban areas?

Also, what kind of digital elevation model is needed (what format) to simulate the planned topography (does LandXML work)? Existing topography models are often GIS-raster data. Is this a must?

Kind regards,

Philip

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• Stormwater Management
• Hydrological Modelling
• Urban Water Infrastructure
• Hydraulic Engineering
• Hydrological Modelling
• Stormwater Runoff
• Hydraulic Modelling
• Hydrological modelling of climate change
• Modeling Tools
• 3D Modeling

7 Answers

1. Hello, Philip Eriksson!

   Sorry for answering your question quite late...Nevertheless, I suggest an open-source solution called Giswater. It's aimed for the integral water cycle managament (water supply, sewerage or flood risks). You can find more about it at https://www.giswater.org/software/?lang=en.

   Hope it helps!

2. You can try Bentley SewerGEMS plus Bentley OpenFlows FLOOD. Bentley SewerGEMS support LandXML.

3. Try https://www.epa.gov/water-research/storm-water-management-model-swmm

4. you may want to contact Will Shepherd from Sheffield University, who is coordinating a program CENTAUR, in which entities from several countries are involved

5. Hi Philip,

   For drainage design we develop a software package called MicroDrainge (for UK) or XPDrainage (for International projects). If you are wanting to model larger catchments to simulate flooding, capacity issues etc, you might want to consider InfoWorks ICM. The 1D and 2D capability is integrated in one user friendly interface. I would be happy to speak with you or put you in the direction of more information.

   Please feel free to connect with me.

   Many thanks

   Claire Underhill

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   1. Hi Claire, your ​MicroDrainge package have restrictions to acquire it?Is it only for use in the UK?Can I have access to it from here, in Cuba?

6. You have pleenty of options-HEC RAS, Infoworks, Windes.

   Landxml do works for Windes , Infoworks softwares

7. HEC-RAS