A method was developed that employs thin boards (0.56 m) comprising different paving materials (2 asphalt types and concrete) typically used in urban environments. Boards can be placed at various locations of interest within an urban catchment to investigate accumulation of contaminants over specified periods of time. Boards are then placed under a rainfall simulator in order to generate runoff...

This manuscript describes the MatSWMM toolbox, an open-source Matlab, Python, and LabVIEW-based software package for the analysis and design of real-time control (RTC) strategies in urban drainage systems (UDS). MatSWMM includes control-oriented models of UDS, and the storm water management model (SWMM) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as systematic-system edition functi...

A model was developed to estimate total suspended solids (TSS) removal in the Stormceptor, an oil/sediment separator. The model was based on a commonly used continuous simulation model (USEPA SWMM) for hydrological processes. The suspended solids’ loading was estimated using build-up and wash-off equations. The solids were assumed to be distributed into five particle sizes for settling calculat...

A numerical model is developed in this study with various components for simulating the complex flow phenomena in urban drainage basins. The model integrates the HEC-1 model, a 1-D dynamic channel-flow model, a 2-D non-inertia overland-flow model and the SWMM model to reflect the hydraulic processes in areas with different characteristics. The inundation of underground infrastructure during flo...

Storm water overflow from the combined sewer system might result in a sudden devastating impact to the local ecosystem in an urban river environment. In order to assess overflow pollution load during tropical rainfall, a web-based share vision modelling system is organized and designed in this study to investigate the resultant water quality impacts from both spatial and temporal aspects simult...

The application of hydrologic modeling tools to represent urban watersheds is widespread, and calculation infiltration losses an essential component these models. curve number (CN) method widely used in such models implemented US EPA’s Storm Water Management Model (SWMM 5). SWMM 5 can be created either using CN values computed only for the pervious fraction subcatchments, or entire subcatchment...