HELE I: Hydraulic Elements I

Key Features

- Pipeflow normal depth and critical depth factors including:
- Velocity
- Flow area
- Flow top-width
- Hydraulic depth
- Pressure-plus-momentum
- Froude number

- Estimates the lower of 2 possible normal depths when applicable.

- Gradually varied flow profiles for trapezoidal, v-ditch, rectangular, and pipe channels, which includes profile computations for:

- Ml, M2, M3
- C1, C2
- S1, S2, S3

- Evaluates hydraulic control and water surface profile. Estimates approximate location of hydraulic jumps by calculating:
- Depth
- Distance from control
- Specific energy
- Pressure-plus-momentum

- Pipe Junction module for coupled pressure and open channel flow pressure-plus-momentum analysis using the Thompson equation.

- Normal and critical depth flow factors for trapezoidal, v-ditch, and rectangular channels, which include computations for:
- Velocity
- Flow area
- Flow top-width
- Hydraulic depth
- Pressure-plus-momentum
- Froude number

- Symmetrical street normal depth computation whereby the user "builds" a symmetrical street and specifies the streetflow. Evaluates:
- Split flow
- Flow factors
- Velocity-depth product
- Normal depth
- Flood-width

- Estimates open channel flow pressure-plus-momentum balance for pipeflow junctions.

- Catch Basin analysis and sizing estimation module.

- More than 100 computational features provide the hydraulic engineer with a comprehensive computerized hydraulics modeling package.