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Autodesk Water Solutions Specialist | 50+ Years Shaping the Industry Master of the full hydraulic-hydrologic stack—from the pioneering days of SWMM3 to today’s cloud-powered InfoDrainage and ICM SWMM. My career spans every generation of SWMM, XP-SWMM, InfoSWMM, InfoSewer, Civil 3D Drainage Analysis, and InfraWorks, translating surface–subsurface interactions into future-ready infrastructure.
This is a story about two inp files. It shows the continuity in stormwater modeling from 1980 to 2025 onwards. It is about Extran1 (free outfall) and Extran 2 (fixed backwater with a tide gate) from the 1981 Extran Manual. This compact test case, born…
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Read MoreWhile recently organizing my garage, I discovered an intriguing poster I'd created comparing the 1D St Venant Terms between SWMM4 and SWMM5. Originally crafted in Microsoft Publisher for the 2007 Urban Runoff Modeling Conference at Humboldt State University, this poster presented a compelling analysis of…
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Read MoreWhy a Hot Start File important in InfoSWMM and InfoSWMM SA, SWMM5 A Hot Start File in InfoSWMM InfoSWMM SA is important as it provides initial depths, initial flows and initial settings for the hydrology and hydraulics features of the SWMM 5 engine. You have…
Read MoreREFERENCES for InfoSWMM and InfoSWMM SA, SWMM5 American Society of Civil Engineers Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 60 (1982). Gravity Sanitary Sewer Design and Construction. Reston, VA. Clark, C.O. (1945). “Storage and the Unit Hydrograph,” Transaction of the ASCE, Vol. 110. Espey, W.H.,…
Read MoreSimple SI Unit Model for SWMM5 LID with 100 mm Rainfall. Reading this blog and using the embedded SWMM 5 example file, you will run a simple SI unit model based on factors of 1 and 10. The LID (Bio-Retention Cell) is designed to have…
Read MoreThe Reynolds Number is not shown in SWMM 5 of InfoSWMM but can easily be added to the SWMM 5 code as shown in Figure 1. The equation for the Reynolds Number is Normally, as shown is Figure 3 the Reynolds number is is very…
Read MoreLinks to @Innovyze and SWMM Professional Network Groups as TinyURL's SWMM5: http://t.co/WT1Ws2lyKX Innovyze http://t.co/5AwI7b60JL — Robert Dickinson (@InnovyzeRobert) February 15, 2015 How to make the terrible URL's from @LinkedIn better using TinyURL http://t.co/HVNoRlMwym pic.twitter.com/6cqK0sjZuL — Robert E Dickinson (@RDickinson) February 15, 2015 3/ Storm Water…
Read MoreThe purpose of this note is to show how InfoSWMM is related to various SWMM 5 engines. InfoSWMM is a ESRI Arc Map Interface to the properties of the SWMM 5 engine using model development tools created by Innovyze for InfoWater and InfoSewer. It uses…
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