SWMM Simulation of the Storm Water Volume Control Performance of Permeable Pavement Systems
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 20, Issue 8
Abstract
The reliability of the low-impact development (LID) module of the widely used Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) for modeling the runoff reduction performance of permeable pavement systems was evaluated through example applications with rainfall data from Atlanta. The method of calculating infiltration through the pavement layers of permeable pavement systems of the LID module was found to be inadequate when the depths of the pavement layer are less than 120 mm and the computational time steps are longer than 30 min. An alternative method of representing permeable pavement systems as equivalent regular subcatchments is proposed. Using this method, the hydrologic operation of permeable pavement systems can be modeled by SWMM or other hydrologic models.
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Acknowledgments
This work has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the China Scholarship Council.
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Volume 20 • Issue 8 • August 2015
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Received: Sep 10, 2013
Accepted: Aug 27, 2014
Published online: Sep 22, 2014
Discussion open until: Feb 22, 2015
Published in print: Aug 1, 2015
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