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The Internal Green Ampt Parameters, Soil Moisture and IMD for a 100 Year SWMM 5 Simulation for Green Ampt Infiltration

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Introduction:  This set of blogs uses the 1000 year rainfall/runoff/hydraulics model that you can download at http://swmm2000.com/forum/topics/1000-year-simulation-with-rainfall-in-swmm-5 to show the inner workings of SWMM 5 and by extension InfoSWMM and H2oMap SWMM using a QA/QC version of SWMM 5 with extended graphics.   I always hope that seeing the inner workings of a SWMM 5 feature helps to understand the code, sensitivity and importance of a parameter.   It also helps show sometimes when a parameter is not important.   In this example, we show some of the internal working of the Green Ampt Infiltration Parameters over the 100 year period.  Discussion:   Key internal parameters for Green Ampt infiltration are FUMax is the Saturated Moisture Content of the Upper Zone (internal units of feet) F or FTOT in the graph is the Cumulative event infiltration at start of time interval (internal units of feet) FU is the current moisture conten...

The Internal Green Ampt Parameters, FUMax, FU and FTOT or F for a 100 Year SWMM 5 Simulation for Green Ampt Infiltration

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Introduction:   This set of blogs uses the 1000 year rainfall/runoff/hydraulics model that you can download at   http://swmm2000.com/forum/ topics/1000-year-simulation- with-rainfall-in-swmm-5  to show the inner workings of SWMM 5 and by extension InfoSWMM and H2oMap SWMM using a QA/QC version of SWMM 5 with extended graphics.   I always hope that seeing the inner workings of a SWMM 5 feature helps to understand the code, sensitivity and importance of a parameter.   It also helps show sometimes when a parameter is not important.   In this example, we show some of the internal working of the Green Ampt Infiltration Parameters over the 100 year period.  Discussion:    Key internal parameters for Green Ampt infiltration are FUMax is the Saturated Moisture Content of the Upper Zone (internal units of feet) F or FTOT in the graph is the Cumulative  event infiltration at start of time interval  (internal units of feet) FU i...