Analysis Criteria is composed of two components: A Rainfall Manager and general Analysis Settings. Available Rainfall Manager are listed to the right, and include Australian Rainfall and Runoff, SCS and User Defined Rainfall, as well as user defined Observed Rainfall and Long Term Rainfall. Please select one of these topics for further information.
General Analysis Settings are discussed below.
Runoff Type
This setting allows the choice of which style of runoff method is being used for the analysis and therefore what sort of rainfall source is needed.
- Dynamic - The default option that is used by all runoff methods that utilise a rainfall hyetograph to produce the inflow hydrograph
- Static - This is only used by the Simplifed Modified Rational runoff method, which uses a peak rainfall intensity to produce the inflow hydrograph rather than a full hyetograph.
Select Rainfall
Use the dropdown to choose the rainfall from the current rainfall library or click Edit to open the Rainfall Manager.
Note
This is relabelled as Rainfall Source and allows the selection of an IDF source when using the Static runoff type
Perform First Flush Analysis
When selected a First Flush event is added as an extra event as part of the analysis, which is based on the First Flush Rainfall Depth provided in the form.
Rainfall Depth
The depth of rainfall to be applied to the First Flush event.
Note
First Flush is only compatible with the Dynamic runoff type
Output Interval
This is the interval at which the results of the analysis should be presented. By default, this will be set to every 5 minutes, however a big step maybe more suitable for a long duration analysis. Equally, a shorter interval increases the temporal resolution when dealing with a short duration storms
Time Step
This controls the internal time step range used by the analysis. The 'Default' setting will be suitable for most designs, however if results begin to show some instabilities the 'Reduced', or 'Shortest' option may be used. The side effect is that the engine will take longer to analyse for the other settings.
Note
The engine updates the length of the computational time-step at every time-step based on the hydraulic conditions. This is to ensure that the time-step has the optimum length to balance the accuracy of the results and the runtime of the simulation.
Increase Rainfall
This will scale all rainfall by the amount specified. This can be used to take climate change, or other factors, into account. This adjustment is only possible when using Dynamic runoff; the value entered will not be used for Static runoff.
Urban Creep
This will scale the Impermeable area by the amount specified. This can be used to take the increase of urban areas, or other factors, into account
Workflow - What's next...?
Inflows connect to either Junctions or Stormwater controls via Inlets . Specify an Analysis Criteria on these objects then choose to connect to another Junction or Stormwater Control.