Flow Simulation of Urban Sewer Networks

Flow in an urban drainage network is usually unsteady with backwater near junctions. The routing of hydrographs through a network is an important aspect of the design and analysis of urban drainage networks. Various numerical methods to analyze flow in urban drainage networks were compared and a new hybrid interpolation scheme was developed which combined time-line reachback interpolation, implicit interpolation and space-line interpolation. Numerical simulations show that the improved method more accurately models flows in urban drainage networks.