A semi-implicit numerical model for urban drainage systems

Autor: Guus S. Stelling, Vincenzo Casulli
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 73:600-614
ISSN: 0271-2091
DOI: 10.1002/fld.3817
Popis: SUMMARY In this paper, a semi-implicit numerical model for one-dimensional urban drainage networks is formulated in such a fashion as to intrinsically account for arbitrary cross sections, for the occurrence of dry areas, for free surface, and for pressurized flows. The governing differential equations are discretized with a consistent mass conservative scheme that naturally applies to all flow regimes. The resulting mildly nonlinear system, at every time step, is efficiently solved with a converging, properly devised, nested Newton-type algorithm. It will be shown that with the proposed semi-implicit model, high accuracy can be achieved at a moderate computational cost. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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