hydrology and water resources software

HYDROLOGY AND WATER

RESOURCES SOFTWARE

B Y H A R I YA L I P U J A R A

FLOWMASTER FlowMaster is a solve-for-

anything hydraulic toolbox that enables engineers to design and analyze a wide variety of hydraulic elements.

FLOWMASTER

• Hydraulic Calculator Software• Doing hydraulic calculations in a spreadsheet is an error-prone process.

FlowMaster helps us to perform hydraulic calculations for dozens of element types, from pipes and open channels to drop inlets and weirs.

• Solve for any unknown property• Design for any desired characteristic • Produce detailed reports and rating curves on the fly• FlowMaster improves design productivity, ultimately saving project costs.

FLOWMASTER• FlowMaster’s interface is simple enough to be the easiest model

and as well as so powerful and can be solve real problems in just minutes.

• Pressure pipe designPerform a quick check or design by plugging in the known information and automatically solving for pipe length, start-and-stop elevations and pressures, discharge, diameter, and roughness.

• Inlet hydraulicsDesign and analyse gate, curb, ditch, slotted and combination inlets using calculations based on the FHWA Federal Highway Administration Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 12 and Circular No. 22 methodologies.

FLOWMASTER

• Open channel hydraulicsDesign and analyse channels, ditches, and free surface pipes of any shape including circular, box, elliptical, parabolic, and irregular channels.

• Weir and orifice modellingSize weirs considering discharge, weir coefficients, and crest, headwater, and tail water elevations for the following types: rectangular, V-notch, Cipolletti, broad crested, or custom size.

CAPABILITIES

Calculate hydraulics• Quickly perform hydraulic calculations for dozens of hydraulic element types,

from pipes and open channels to inlets and weirs.

Interpret and present modeling results• View detailed tables, reports, rating curves, and more, that show results of

the hydraulic calculations performed.

SEWERCAD• Thousands of utilities and engineering

firms around the world trust SewerCAD for sanitary sewer modelling and design to minimize capital investments.

SEWERGEMS(SEWER MANAGEMENT)

• SewerGEMS streamlines the modelling process, so more time for solving wastewater engineering problems, such as improving capacity and limiting sewer overflows, which ultimately enable utilities to comply with sewer regulations set by regulatory agencies.

• For more than three decades, SewerGEMS has provided utilities and wastewater professionals with advanced engineering tools to plan, design, maintain, and operate sanitary and combined sewer systems, including:

• Engineering decision guidance tools: SewerGEMS’ , scenario management tools to gain a better understanding of the behaviour of wastewater system, improving decision making and response time.

• Improved model accuracy: • A well calibrated model decreases the risks of making poor decisions by ensuring

that the model uses the best available data. • SewerGEMS calibration tools such as SCADA (supervisory control and data

acquisition) integration enable engineer to rely on his model results.

SewerGEMS(sewer management)

SEWERGEMS(SEWER MANAGEMENT)

• Increased information mobility:

• SewerGEMS’ full GIS, CAD, and SCADA interoperability enables the cost-effective sharing and flow of information between utilities’ design, engineering, GIS, and operation departments, and their consultants.

• It also can leverage the data that the utility invested in once and reuse across departments.

• SewerGEMS is a superset of SewerCAD.

CAPABILITIES Allocate and estimate

sanitary loads

Allocate and estimate storm water loads

Analyze hydraulics and combined sewer overflows

Analyze hydrogen sulfide formation

Analyse inlet capacities

Build and manage hydraulic models

Design sanitary sewers

Design and analyze culverts.

Design and analyze low impact development controls

Simulate water quality

Design storm water systems

Design and analyze pond and outlets

CIVILSTORM• CivilStorm provides an easy-to-

use environment for engineers to analyse, design, and operate storm water systems.

CIVILSTORM

• Storm water systems can be very complex to model, with flow backups and reversals, surcharged pipes, and more. CivilStorm is one solution for all your storm water modeling needs.

• Detect system bottlenecks, improve capacity, and limit storm water flooding, so you can comply with storm water regulations

• Minimize capital investments on your infrastructure with optimized network designs and master plans for your entire system.

CIVILSTORM• CivilStorm performs analysis of all aspects of storm water systems: rainfall, runoff, inlet

capture and bypass, gravity and pressure piping, ponds, outlet structures, open channels, culverts, and more. It provides:

• Comprehensive storm water modeling: Analyze pressure and free-surface flow conditions for networks of channels and closed conduits; model complex pond outlets for a variety of tail water conditions; and use weirs, orifices, culverts, risers, and inlet boxes in your design.

• Effortless design: CivilStorm recommends the most cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations, while meeting design restrictions. It guides you through the complex pond and outlet design process and streamlines complicated culvert hydraulics.

• Streamlined model building and management: Leverage and import virtually any external data format to jump-start the model. Then, manipulate the model data effectively, with the ability to use a multitude of data entry and model editing tools that simplify and shorten the modeling process.

• CivilStorm is a superset of StormCAD and a subset of SewerGEMS.

CAPABILITIES

Allocate and estimate storm water loads Analyze inlet capacities Build and manage hydraulic models Design and analyze culverts Design and analyze low

impact development controls Design and analyze pond and outlets Design storm water systems. Simulate hydraulics using multiple solvers Simulate water quality

STORMCAD• StormCAD provides storm water

professionals with advanced tools to effectively deliver high-quality storm sewer design with lower capital investment.

STORMCAD

• Storm Sewer Analysis and Design Software

• In challenging times, budgets for infrastructure projects are tight. StormCAD helps you be as effective as possible on storm sewer development projects. The software provides roadway and site designers, storm water master planners, and land developers like you with advanced tools to effectively deliver high quality design with minimized capital investments.

STORMCAD• StormCAD offers a complete approach to storm sewer design and analysis, from rainfall to

outlet:

• Effortless storm sewer design: Automatically design gravity piping and structures. Enter your design constraints for StormCAD to automatically determine cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations while minimizing pipe cover to avoid unnecessary pipe trench excavation.

• Streamlined model building and management: Leverage and import virtually any external data format to jump-start the model. Then, manipulate the model data effectively, with the ability to use a multitude of data entry and model editing tools that simplify and shorten the modeling process

• Improved design productivity: With StormCAD’s ability to run from within MicroStation or AutoCAD, model in a platform that you may be more familiar with and take advantage of CAD environments and tools (e.g., superior layout, drafting capabilities). Or choose to model storm sewers in StormCAD’s stand-alone interface.

• StormCAD is a subset of CivilStorm and SewerGEMS.

CAPABILITIES

•Allocate and estimate storm water loads

•Analyze inlet capacities

•Build and manage hydraulic models

•Design and analyze culverts

•Design storm water systems

PONDPACK

• Effectively analyse and design detention and retention facilities, outlet structures, and channels.

PONDPACK(DETENTION POND ANALYSIS AND DESIGN SOFTWARE)

• From basic site designs to complex drainage studies, you can effectively model rainfall and runoff from urban and rural watersheds to design detention and retention facilities, outlet structures, and channels. The intuitive and easy-to-use interface simplifies detention pond design while the robust calculation engine handles the complexity of interconnected pond modeling.

• With PondPack, you have the best of both worlds: Improved design productivity

• Delivery of high-quality pond design projects.

PONDPACK(DETENTION POND ANALYSIS AND DESIGN SOFTWARE)

• Gain increased workflow efficiency and streamline the planning, design, and engineering of your next storm water system project through:Simple step-by-step pond and outlet design: Easily manage the sequence of steps required to take a pond from blank page to final design. PondPack's PondMaker guides you through the confusing maze of pond design steps by providing a step-by-step process that provides constant feedback on how the design is progressing.

• Streamlined model building and management: Leverage and import virtually any external data format to jumpstart the model. Then you can manipulate the model data effectively, with the ability to use a multitude of data entry and model editing tools that simplify and shorten the modeling process.

• Improved understanding of real-world situations: Model complex pond scenarios with confidence, including simulating tidal and tailwater effects in interconnected ponds.

• PondPack is a subset of CivilStorm and SewerGEMS.

CAPABILITIES

•Build and manage hydraulic models

•Design and analyze culverts.

•Design and analyze pond and outlets

•Model rainfall and runoff-

RESERVOIR SIMULATION SOFTWARE

BOAST - BLACK OIL APPLIED SIMULATION TOOL (BOAST)

• Boast is an IMPES numerical simulator (finite-difference implicit pressure-explicit saturation) which finds the pressure distribution for a given time step first then calculates the saturation distribution for the same time step isothermal.

• The last release was in 1986 but it remains as a good simulator for educational purposes.

MRST - THE MATLAB RESERVOIR SIMULATION TOOLBOX (MRST)

The toolbox consists of two main parts: a core offering basic functionality and single and two-phase solvers, and a set of add-on modules offering more advanced models, viewers and solvers.

MRST is mainly intended as a toolbox for rapid prototyping and demonstration of new simulation methods and modeling concepts on unstructured grids.

Despite this, many of the tools are quite efficient

and can be applied to surprisingly large and complex models

OPM - THE OPEN POROUS MEDIA (OPM)

• The Open Porous Media (OPM) initiative provides a set of open-source tools centred on the simulation of flow and transport of fluids in porous media.

RESERVOIR SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES

To compute reservoir capacity using Sequent Peak algorithm.To interpolate Elevation-Area-Capacity table for any elevation interval.To determine the firm power from a reservoir or to simulate the operation

of a hydropower project.To simulate the operation of a multi-purpose multi reservoir system for

conservation purposes.To carry out flow routing through a reservoir using the hydrologic routing

methods.To determine the reservoir operation policy using Stretched Thread

method. To determine the rule curve levels using mass balance approach.

To determine the required reservoir storage for a given yield or vice versa.

GENERAL SOFTWARE• JUPITER API (DOS/Win) Version 1.7.3, 2013/8/6

The Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability Application Programming Interface

• LIBANNE (DOS/Sun) Version 4.0, 2002/02/25A collection of related libraries for use in hydrologic applications

• LIBHSP Version 11.1A collection of related libraries for the Hydrological Simulation Program--Fortran (HSPF)

GENERAL SOFTWARE• LIBUTL (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 6.0, 1997/02/05

Utility libraries for interactive prompting, device-independent graphics, and time-dependent data base access

• MMA (Sun/DOS) Version 1.210, 2011/09/01A computer code for analysis of multiple models of the same system using the same observations for calibration

• ModelMate (DOS/Win) Version 1.0.3, 2016/2/16A graphical user interface (GUI) for model analysis.

• ModelMate supports UCODE_2005 or UCODE_2014 (UCODE), MODFLOW-2005 (MODFLOW), and ModelMuse.

GENERAL SOFTWARE• NWIS Web Services Snapshot Tool for ArcGIS (Win) Version 2.0, 2012/06/06

ArcMap add-in for retrieving and managing data from NWIS Web Services

• OPR-PPR (Win/DOS) Version 1.01, 2016/01/31A Computer Program for Assessing Data Importance to Model Predictions Using Linear Statistics

• Scenario Tools: Scenario Manager and Scenario Analyzer (DOS/Win) Version 1.0.0, 2014/04/15Scenario Tools: Scenario Manager and Scenario Analyser, Graphical user interfaces for managing and analysing MODFLOW groundwater model scenarios.

GENERAL SOFTWARE• SYSDOC (DG) Version 1.0, 1996/03/01

System Documentation for Fortran Source Code

• TDDS (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 6.0, 1997/03/06Time-Dependent Data System for Simulation Models

• UCODE_2014 (DOS/UNIX) Version 1.004, 2016/02/18A computer code for universal inverse modeling.

WATER RESOURCES STATISTICS SOFTWARE

• This software and related material (data and documentation) are made available by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be used in the public interest and the advancement of science.

STATISTICS SOFTWARE

GNWISQ (Windows) Version 1.1, 2014/09/15

Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data

HydroClimATe (WIN) Version 1.0.0, 2014/03/07

Computer program for assessing the relations among variable climatic and hydrologic time-series data

HyDroDSS (Windows) Version 1.0.0.0, 2014/03/27Hydrologic Drought Decision Support System

STATISTICS SOFTWARE

JUPITER API (DOS/Win) Version 1.7.3, 2013/8/6The Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability Application Programming Interface

KTRLine (Win) Version 1.0, 2010/01/11Kendall-Theil Robust Line

LOADEST (Linux/Unix/Win)Homepage for LOADEST software distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey

STATISTICS SOFTWAREMkDF (Windows) Version 1.0, 2009/12/15Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data

MkPP (Windows) Version 1.0, 2009/12/15Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data

NSS (Win) Version 6.1, 2015/05/06National Streamflow Statistics program

STATISTICS SOFTWARE

• OPR-PPR (Win/DOS) Version 1.01, 2016/01/31A Computer Program for Assessing Data Importance to Model Predictions Using Linear Statistics

• QSTATS (Windows) Version 1.1, 2014/09/15Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data

• SEDSIZE (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 1.9, 1997/06/02Particle-size statistics of fluvial sediments

STATISTICS SOFTWARE

• SELDM (Win) Version 1.0.0.0, 2013/03/27Stochastic empirical loading and dilution model

• SREF (Windows) Version 1.0, 2009/12/15Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data

• StreamStats (online) Version 2, 2011/01/07StreamStats streamflow statistics web application

STATISTICS SOFTWARE

SWSTAT (DOS/Sun) Version 4.1, 2002/02/25Surface-Water Statistics

USGS Library for S-PLUS (Win) Version 4.0, 2011/07/13A collection of functions, dialogs, and datasets for use in hydrologic applications

WREG (Win) Version 1.05, 2013/05/08Weighted-multiple-linear REGression

SURFACE WATER SOFTWARE

• ANNIE (DOS/Sun) Version 4.1, 2002/02/25Interactive Hydrologic Analyses and Data Management

• BRANCH (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 4.3, 1997/06/05Branch-Network Dynamic Flow Model

• BSDMS (DOS/DG) Version 2.1, 1996/03/01Bridge Scour Data Management System

• CAP (Win/Mac/DOS/Sun) Version 2.0 and 1.0, 2013/07/31Culvert Analysis Program

SURFACE WATER SOFTWARE• CGAP (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 3.5, 1995/10/06

Channel Geometry Analysis Program

• CRT (Win) Version 1.1.1, 2013/09/06Cascade Routing Tool to Define and Visualize Flow Paths for Grid-Based Watershed Models

• DR3M (DOS/DG) Version 2.1, 1996/03/01Distributed Routing Rainfall-Runoff Model

• feq (DOS/Sun) Version 4.1Interactive Hydrologic Analyses and Data Management

SURFACE WATER SOFTWARE

• FEQ (DOS) Version 10.60, 2009/03/31Full EQuations Model

• FESWMS-2DH (DG) Version 1.10.DG1, 1995/06/07Finite-element surface-water modeling system for two-dimensional flow in the horizontal plane

• FourPt (DG/Sun) Version 95.01, 1997/06/04An unsteady, one-dimensional, open-channel flow model

• GCLAS (Unix/Win) Version 1.06c, 2016/04/25Graphical Constituent Loading Analysis System

SURFACE WATER SOFTWARE

• GenScn (Win) Version 1.0, 1998/08/14GENeration and analysis of model simulation SCeNarios

• GLSNet (DOS/DG) Version 4.0, 2005/01/27Regional hydrologic regression and NETwork analysis using Generalized Least Squares

• GNWISQ (Windows) Version 1.1, 2014/09/15Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data

SURFACE WATER SOFTWARE• SEDSIZE (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 1.9, 1997/06/02

Particle-size statistics of fluvial sediments

• SPARROW (Win/Sun) Version 2.6, 2006/08/09SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes

• SREF (Windows) Version 1.0, 2009/12/15Obtaining and analysing daily mean streamflow data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System Web Site: Streamflow Record Extension Facilitator

• StreamStats (online) Version 2, 2011/01/07StreamStats streamflow statistics web application

GEOCHEMICAL SOFTWARE• OTEQ (Linux/Unix)

Homepage for OTEQ software distributed

• OTIS (Linux/Sun/Unix/Win), 1998/04/20One-dimensional transport with inflow and storage (OTIS): A solute transport model for streams and rivers

• PHAST (Linux/Win) Version 2.4.6-8538, 2014/03/24A program for simulating ground-water flow, solute transport, and multicomponent geochemical reactions

GEOCHEMICAL SOFTWARE

• Alkalinity Calculator (online) Version 2.20The Alkalinity Calculator will analyze the titration curve and calculate the alkalinity or acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) of a sample

• BIOMOC (DOS/DG/SGI/Sun) Version 1.0, 1999/03/10A multispecies solute-transport model with biodegradation

• BLTM (DG) Version 1.2, 1996/11/04Branched Lagrangian Transport Model

GEOCHEMICAL SOFTWARE• GAMACTT (online) Version 1.0, 2014/08/28

'Groundwater Age Mixtures and Contaminant Trends Tool' is an interactive educational webtool illustrating effects of groundwater age distributions on nonpoint-source contamination responses of wells and groundwater discharges.

• GW_Chart (Windows) Version 1.29.0.0, 2015/10/29GW_Chart: a program for creating specialized graphs used in groundwater studies.

• HST3D (Unix/Linux/Win) Version 2.2.16, 2010/10/21Three-dimensional flow, heat, and solute transport model

• KTRLine (Win) Version 1.0, 2010/01/11Kendall-Theil Robust Line

GEOCHEMICAL SOFTWARE

• PHREEQC (Mac/Linux/Win) Version 3.2.0-9820, 2015/06/10A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch-Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport, and Inverse Geochemical Calculations.

• PhreeqcI (Win) Version 3.2.0-9820, 2015/06/10Graphical user interface for PHREEQC

GEOCHEMICAL SOFTWARE

• SELDM (Win) Version 1.0.0.0, 2013/03/27Stochastic empirical loading and dilution model

• SPREADBAL-2002Documentation for the mineral mass balance spreadsheet referenced in Bowser and Jones (2002) American Journal of Science v. 302 p. 582-662.

• SUTRA and related programs2D, 3D, variable-density, variably-saturated flow, solute or energy transport

RECENTLY UPDATED SOFTWARE• Groundwater_Toolbox (WIN) Version 1.2.0, 2016/10/01

A graphical and mapping interface for analysis of hydrologic data. Includes the hydrograph-analysis programs BFI, HYSEP, PART, and RORA (with RECESS).

• GSFLOW (Linux/Win) Version 1.2.1, 2016/10/01Coupled Groundwater and Surface-water FLOW model based on the USGS Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) and Modular Groundwater Flow Model (MODFLOW-2005)

RECENTLY UPDATED SOFTWARE• ModelMuse (Windows) Version 3.8.1.0, 2016/8/26

ModelMuse: A Graphical User Interface for MODFLOW-2005, MODFLOW-LGR, MODFLOW-LGR2, MODFLOW-NWT, MODFLOW-CFP, MODFLOW-OWHM, MT3DMS, SUTRA, PHAST, MODPATH, and ZONEBUDGET

• MODFLOW-NWT (WIN) Version 1.1.2, 2016/09/15A Newton-Raphson formulation for MODFLOW-2005 to improve solution of unconfined groundwater-flow problems

RECENTLY UPDATED SOFTWARE• PART (Win) Version 2.0, 2016/08/22

A computerized method of base-flow-record estimation

• RECESS (Win) Version 2.0, 2016/08/22A computer program for analysis of streamflow recession

• RORA (Win) Version 2.0, 2016/08/22The recession-curve-displacement method for estimating recharge

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