Showing posts with label How SWMM5 uses zero Subcatchment Slope in its Runoff Calculations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How SWMM5 uses zero Subcatchment Slope in its Runoff Calculations. Show all posts

Sunday, January 19, 2014

How SWMM5 uses zero Subcatchment Slope in its Runoff Calculations

This is just a note on how SWMM5 uses zero Subcatchment Slope in its Runoff Calculations:
1. If the slope is zero then the engine will NOT calculate Runoff as the WCON parameter is zero (Bullet 4 in Figure 1)
2. If you do want Runoff from all of your Subcatchments then you need to check the slope value in your Hydrology by doing a data query (Bullet 2 in Figure 2)
3. If you want to use the zero slope as a facility manager in your models then you can use a zero slope and have no Runoff. it is a way to deactivate a portion or section of your model.

Figure 1.  How SWMM5 Uses Zero Subcatchment Slope



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