HydroCulv v2.

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December 15, 2009
Hydraulic Modelling of culverts

Dec. 17, 2007 - remove forced full flow assumption for small and adverse slopes, with actual GVF calculations and
Dec. 18, 2007 - add flow performance curve feature
Dec. 19, 2007 - add pipe size performance curve feature
Jan. 04, 2008 - add backup routines to normal and critical depth routines
Oct. 24, 2008 - ignore hypothetical jump if not entirely within culvert
Jun 5, 2009 - Use actual ellipse equation, rather than 2 radii - works with rise > span
Dec 15, 2009 - Fix Adverse Flow routine to find critical depth first
ctual GVF calculations and checking for full flow.
Detailed Crossing Hydraulic 1
Analysis

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Flow Performance Curve 1

Analysis

Size Performance Curve 1

Analysis

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Enter culvert geometry and hydraulic data for up to 5 culverts on the "Culvert Data" sheet (and "User Shape" sheets if
necessary). Enter up to 10 boundary condition scenarios to be analysed.

Click the "XS Plot" button to verify accuracy of input geometry data. Click the "XS Properties" button to view a table of culvert
properties including area, wetted perimeter, and hydraulic radius.
Click the "Calculate" button to generate flow profiles through each of the selected pipes for each of the specified boundary
condition scenarios. If input errors are detected, the "Errors" sheet will appear, with information on the errors. Otherwise,
results will appear in the "Summary", "Profiles" and "Profile Plot" sheets. The profile shown on the "Profile Plot" sheet can be
selected by pressing the "Plot Profile" button on the "Profiles" sheet. Clicking on the "Culvert Data" sheet tab will hide the
output sheets and enable a new analysis.

Enter culvert geometry and hydraulic data for up to 5 culverts on the "Culvert Data" sheet (and "User Shape" sheets if
necessary). Enter channel and flow curve analysis data to generate a range of boundary conditions (boundary condition data
does not have to be entered).
Click the "Flow Curve" button to generate a table and plot of crossing performance over the selected range of flow conditons.
This presents a sensitivity analysis for the crossing based on boundary conditions. Clicking on the "Culvert Data" sheet tab
will hide the output sheets and enable a new analysis.

Enter channel and size curve analysis data to generate a range of culvert sizes for analysis at the specified boundary
condition. Boundary condition data is not required. Culvert data is not required, although length, roughness, and loss
coefficients will be read from culvert #1, if available. Culvert slope is set to match the channel, the AIT standard for burial is
applied, and the pipe is assumed to be round.
Click the "Size Curve" button to generate a table and plot of hydraulic performance over the selected range of pipe sizes at
the specified boundary condition. This presents a sensitivity analysis for the crossing based on pipe diameter. Clicking on
the "Culvert Data" sheet tab will hide the output sheets and enable a new analysis.
 Project
Culvert Data
Pipe No. 1 2 3 4
Include (Y/N) Y
Station (m) 100
U/S Invert El (m) 675.620
D/S Invert El (m) 675.740
Length (m) 37.18
Roughness n 0.028
Ent. Loss Coeff. 0.7
Exit Loss Coeff. 0.4
Shape R
Rise (m) 3.67
Span (m)

Boundary Conditions :

Description Q (m3/s) TW Elev (m) D/S Vel (m/s)

1 Design Discharge (D/S) 16 677.3 3.4
2
3
4

Performance Curve Parameters

Channel Data Flow Curve Data Size Curve Data

S Min Y BC Type
B Max Y BC Value
h Y inc Min D
T Max D
Rough D inc
D/S Bed EL
U/S Bed El

Site Geometry 1 2 3 4
U/S Bed Elev (m)
D/S Bed Elev (m)
Slope
Length (m)
Standard Burial (m)
U/S Invert Elev (m)
D/S Invert Elev (m)
Tailwater depth (m)
TW Elevation (m)
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XS Properties

XS Plot

Calculate

Curve Data
Flow Curve

Size Curve

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Bold - input
Grey - output
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100 104
105 104

105 104.1

102.5 104
115 104
127.5 104
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125 104 130 104

125 104.1 130 104.1

Pipe No. 1 2 3 4
Depth Width Depth Width Depth Width Depth Width

1 0.00 5.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

2 1.00 4.00
3 2.00 2.50
4 3.00 0.00
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Depth Width

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