Hydraulic modeling

  • How Scottish Water transformed their hydraulic modelling – and stopped writing 100 reports per year

    Digital transformation is often associated with adopting new technology, but for Scottish Water, it began with a much simpler question: How can we free engineers to spend more time engineering? Just over a decade ago, Scottish Water’s hydraulic modellers were producing more than 100 flooding reports every year. Today – remarkably – they produce none.…

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  • How adaptive management and InfoWorks ICM helped KC Water save millions

    Kansas City, Missouri, like many older US cities, has a big sewer challenge hiding beneath its streets. They’ve taken on the challenge of defeating sewer overflows using the power of hydraulic modeling. KC Water serves a growing metropolitan area with thousands of miles of sewer pipe, 40 sewer pump stations, 27 satellite communities, and one…

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  • When can you trust a flood model? Accuracy, calibration, and uncertainty explained.

    Flood models are used to make important decisions: That’s why one of the most common questions in hydraulic modelling is: How accurate is the model? It’s a reasonable question. Engineers spend significant time calibrating models against observed water levels, flow rates, and flood extents. A model that cannot reproduce reality has limited value for planning,…

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  • Why better PRV modeling leads to better pressure management

    Some hydraulic modeling software maintains downstream pressure artificially whenever sufficient upstream head exists. While computationally convenient, this can mask valve sizing and operational issues that become apparent under varying flow conditions. Learn how InfoWorks WS Pro improves PRV design using valve headloss curves to give you a more realistic view of what’s happening. Pressure Reducing…

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  • Autodesk Assistant can now make changes to your hydraulic model on command in InfoWater Pro

    Thanks to model context protocol, or MCP, the Autodesk Assistant can now make changes and updates to your hydraulic model through your interactions with it. There’s a moment during big technology shifts where new things stop feeling like features and start feeling like teammates. That’s the goal – and what we’re trying to build –…

    AI and Machine Learning

  • Reducing water loss in India’s cities: a digital path to water security

    Addressing India’s water challenges requires a better understanding of how water moves through urban networks, which is where tools like hydraulic modeling and water distribution system analysis play a critical role. These tools can help municipalities understand and reduce non-revenue water. A system under pressure The World Bank estimates that India’s urban population will reach…

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  • Automating hydraulic modeling with Ruby, AI, and InfoWorks Exchange: a practical workflow

    With the combination of AI tools + Autodesk Exchange APIs + cloud databases + free viewers, Ruby scripting is no longer just for experts. It’s now one of the fastest ways to automate hydraulic modeling workflows and connect them directly to tools dashboarding tools, like ArcGIS Online or PowerBI. For years, Autodesk hydraulic modeling tools…

    AI and Machine Learning

  • Hydrology vs hydraulics: What’s the difference?

    Hydrology studies how water enters a system (rainfall and runoff), while hydraulics focuses on how water moves through that system (flow, velocity, flooding). The difference is very important when modeling. Hydrology and hydraulics are often used interchangeably — but they solve very different parts of the same problem: In short: In other words, hydrology defines…

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  • InfoWorks ICM Ultimate 2027 brings network design and analysis together for AECO

    InfoWorks ICM – our hydraulic modeling software for stormwater, sewer, and flood network analysis and design– gets a big update for 2027. Network Design is the headline for this release, but the bigger story is the holistic workflow it unlocks in Autodesk’s AECO ecosystem. It’s that time of year when we release our biggest updates. What’s…

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  • How our open-source GitHub repository grew from a simple idea into a global engineering community

    Engineers working in hydraulic modeling are increasingly turning to GitHub, scripting, and AI tools to automate workflows and extend their models – including our customers. GitHub has become the world’s largest platform for sharing open-source code. Engineers, researchers, and developers use it to publish everything from small scripts to full software projects. Many widely used…

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