Abstract
Urban stormwater is a major non-point source of aquatic pollution. It is necessary to design and implement pilot experiments to investigate the effect of specific forcing functions under controlled conditions. In this work, a simple storm event inflow is designed to simulate a variable duration storm event using only a pump and mixer. The results indicate that two-phase straight inflow changed to right-skew convex curve after cylinder transformation. The method can be used to rapidly design simulated variable duration storm event flows for pilot studies for researchers, hydrologists and engineers.
Acknowledgements
This work has been partially supported by the NSF sponsored Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST-RESSACA) and the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.