Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/107419
Title: | Peak Flows and Stormwater Networks Design—Current and Future Management of Urban Surface Watersheds | Authors: | Diogo, António Freire Carmo, José Antunes do |
Keywords: | urban drainage networks; open channel flow; stormwater peak flows; simulation in unsteady flow; classic rational method; urban watersheds management | Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | MDPI | Serial title, monograph or event: | Water (Switzerland) | Volume: | 11 | Issue: | 4 | Abstract: | Stormwater urban drainage systems are typically designed in open channel flow. Pipe sewers must have enough capacity to transport maximum design flows for a given frequency of the project rainfall. The classic rational method or related procedures that are based on rational approaches are still currently used to a great extent, particularly for small urban drainage basins, and the pipes are frequently designed in uniform steady flow. Numerical integration of Saint-Venant equations for one-dimensional gradually varied unsteady flow allows the computation of waves’ progression along the pipes for given input surface hydrographs. This paper presents a comprehensive, systematic, simple, and original comparison between the peak flows that are achieved through simulation in unsteady flow using an implicit complete dynamic model, developed in the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment of Coimbra University, and those that are obtained with the classic rational method along urban drainage networks. Boundary conditions and some approximations typically considered in the methodologies are analyzed in detail. Classic rational approaches may underestimate the peak and design flows. Practical recommendations for the system design phase when rational approaches are used are also proposed. The need for indispensable requirements for suitable urbanization rules, intelligent management of surface runo in urban basins, and control measures for the reduction of peak flows entering existing networks is confirmed and reinforced. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/107419 | ISSN: | 2073-4441 | DOI: | 10.3390/w11040759 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FCTUC Eng.Civil - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Peak-flows-and-stormwater-networks-designcurrent-and-future-management-of-urban-surface-watershedsWater-Switzerland.pdf | 3.74 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
SCOPUSTM
Citations
21
checked on Aug 5, 2024
WEB OF SCIENCETM
Citations
16
checked on Aug 2, 2024
Page view(s)
48
checked on Aug 13, 2024
Download(s)
26
checked on Aug 13, 2024
Google ScholarTM
Check
Altmetric
Altmetric
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License