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To mitigate the adverse impact of urbanization around the world, several best management practices , in other words green infrastructures, have been used in a way that protect the natural hy-drology of the catchment and are more beneficial to the environment. Soak-away rain garden, shallow , landscaped depressions commonly located in parking lots o...
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... the inner details were implemented taking into account the codes discussed in Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4, using COMSOL JAVA API, a graphical user interface was developed as shown in Figure 4. The interface permits the users to specify the dimensions of the soak-away rain garden, specify the model parameters, input the time series of the stormwater runoff, define the simulation period, define the meshing size, visualize the si- mulated results, and modify the default options. ...
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... shown in Figure 4, the section for "Garden Dimension" allows the users to input the dimensions of the soak-away rain garden. The width, length, depth of filter media (the primary soil layer), ponding depth (defined above top of the filter media), and depth to ground water table that is defined from bottom of the filter media, are specified in meters. ...
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... governing equations of the underlying physics are then discretized and solved inside each of these sub-domains. As shown in Figure 4, the "simulation" button al- lows the users to perform the simulation. The model performs the simulation based on the user specified inputs that are discussed so far and any additional inputs specified through the preferences menu. ...
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