User Forum of Software BASEMENT

michelk

Advanced_User

Registered: 2014-09-17

Posts: 33

Modelling rainfall

Hi,
has anyone tried to model rainfall with BASEMENT?

We were thinking of using EXTERNAL_SOURCE for experimenting. But then -- if you
have rainfall allover the mesh -- you would have to add all your element-IDs to
the bmc-file. It would be quite handy to use an index-table instead, similar to
FRICTION. E.g.

SOURCE
{
   [...]
   EXTERNAL_SOURCE
   {
      type = source_discharge
      index = (  1  )
      file = rainfall_discharge_in_time.txt
   }
   EXTERNAL_SOURCE
   {
      type = source_discharge
      index = (  2  3  4  )
      file = another_rainfall_discharge.txt
   }
}

I'm aware, that I would have to sum-up the rainfall over the zone-area to
generate the discharge.

Greetings, Michel

Lukas Vonwiller

Developer

Registered: 2014-09-04

Posts: 130

Re: Modelling rainfall

Hi Michel

Thats a great idea that we will take on our todo-list!
Thanks for your input!

Best, Lukas

Sam

Developer

From: VAW - ETH Zurich

Registered: 2014-09-04

Posts: 46

Website

Re: Modelling rainfall

Since v2.7 this is implemented (for both hydraulics and morphology)