Advanced Methods for the Selection of Urban Runoff Design Storms
Voorhees, Michael Luellen
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Description
Title
Advanced Methods for the Selection of Urban Runoff Design Storms
Author(s)
Voorhees, Michael Luellen
Issue Date
1982
Department of Study
Civil Engineering
Discipline
Civil Engineering
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Engineering, Civil
Abstract
Urban runoff design storm selection has in the past been arbitrary at times. This has led to inadequate and unreliable capacity design of urban runoff structures. By utilizing a continuous urban runoff digital computer model, the frequency response of selected urban basins to a selected historical point rainfall record is generated. This frequency response is subsequently used as a criterion for the selection of a set of design storms. Expectation and optimization are applied to obtain reliable design storms. Results indicate that both expectation and optimization analysis yield reliable design storms. Application of expectation analysis to a two-parameter design storm model is one practical recommendation of the study.
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