Hydraulic modeling

  • Hydraulic modeling explained: a guide to 1D, 2D and integrated catchment modeling

    Water doesn’t stay in one place. It flows through pipes, along rivers, across streets, and sometimes into places it shouldn’t be – like homes, roads, and critical infrastructure. Understanding where that water will go, how fast it will move, and what happens when systems are pushed beyond their limits is at the heart of hydraulic…

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  • SA Water is advancing their digital maturity with live water network modelling

    By implementing real-time water network modeling, SA Water is strengthening operational resilience, improving decision-making, and supporting reliable services. Water utilities today face increasing complexity: growing demand, climate variability, expanding infrastructure, and rising expectations for reliability. For SA Water, which delivers essential water and wastewater services to more than 1.8 million South Australians, managing that complexity…

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  • Aguas de Alicante’s digital twin water transformation

    Aguas de Alicante is one of Spain’s oldest water utilities, with roots dating back to 1898 when potable water was first brought to the city of Alicante. It operates under a public-private model and manages the integrated water cycle — including water capture, treatment, distribution, sewerage, and wastewater purification — for Alicante and surrounding municipalities.…

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  • Jacobs: How 1D + 2D modeling in InfoWorks ICM is controlling stormwater in Toronto (and saving $$$)

    The Woodborough Park neighborhood in Toronto is part of the Fairbank-Silverthorn area, which experiences significant flooding challenges, especially during heavy rainfall events. Their two big problems are a long history of basement flooding and sewer system overloads. Like many North American cities without separate sewer and water systems, they struggle with CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows),…

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  • Forecasting water system performance by connecting SCADA and hydraulic models

    Utilities are increasingly expected to move faster – from reacting to system conditions to anticipating what comes next. In a recent Autodesk Water Drop walkthrough video, Tim Medearis walks you through how utilities can compare real-time SCADA data with hydraulic model results and forecast future system behavior by connecting Info360 Insight and InfoWater Pro. This…

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  • Houston’s Stormwater Master Plan: a modern approach to citywide modeling

    Houston’s relationship with water has always been complex. Sometimes called the “Bayou City”, Houston has been flooding since it was founded in 1836. Flat terrain, lots of concrete, expansive development, its position near the coast, and increasingly intense rainfall events have made stormwater management one of the city’s most critical infrastructure challenges. But they’ve been…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • InfoWorks ICM 2026.3: Raster workflows, expanded subgrid meshing, 2D boundaries, and a more polished interface

    As urban drainage and flood modeling challenges continue to grow in complexity, modelers need tools that can scale with larger datasets, richer terrain detail, and increasingly global data sources, without adding friction to everyday workflows. In InfoWorks ICM 2026.3, we’ve focused on strengthening some of the most heavily used parts of the platform: raster-based workflows,…

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  • Hydraulic model calibration: a continuous, dynamic method for water distribution systems

    Calibrating a water quality model accurately can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve created a way to speed up and automate the process. Summary Virtually every water distribution system model requires some level of calibration adjustment so that your model accurately represents the behavior of the real water system you…

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  • XPSWMM vs. InfoWorks ICM vs. InfoDrainage: Which solution do you need?

    First released for Windows in 1997, XPSWMM aided stormwater and flood professionals in taking on the water challenges of its time. It was an incredibly powerful tool that the water industry adopted to solve the challenges it faced. But time and software development always marches on. Over time, most users adopted more powerful solutions like…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • Do you need a Rainwater Management Plan? This Irish manual provides excellent guidance.

    Anthony McCloy is the managing director of McCloy Consulting and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars, provides university lectures, delivers national SuDS training workshops and has recently contributed to Ireland’s Rainwater Management Plans: Guidance for Local Authorities. Does your municipality need an RMP – a Rainwater Management Plan? In the UK, there are lots of…

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