What is Urban Developer?
Urban Developer is an integrated urban water cycle modelling (IUWM) tool designed to meet the needs of water professionals facing the challenges of integrated water cycle service planning and assessment arising from the ever-increasing pressures on Australia’s water resources.
Urban Developer Plugin Scope
The Urban Developer Plugin provides for the integration of detailed urban water demand modelling scenarios with whole-of-system Source scenarios with a degree of flexibility not offered by existing integrated models.
Urban demand is simulated as one or more scenarios containing a template of representative household-level end use, with outputs which can be transferred to a water user node in a Source schematic or catchments scenario. This allows the modeller to evaluate, for example: the cumulative effects of individual end use actions such as the effect of installing water-saving showerheads or dual-flush toilets in individual households, or the impact of urban water use restrictions on total system water supply.
Urban scenarios model water networks as a series of nodes and links. This lumped approach means that while some node models may have a spatial component, all activity at these nodes is assumed to occur at a single point. Modelling that requires spatial variation should use the functionality available in Source catchment scenarios.
Contents
Navigating the User Guide
The Urban Developer Plugin User Guide contains three parts:
- Urban Scenarios: describes how to create, configure and run an Urban Scenario
- Linked River System Scenarios: describes how to integrate an Urban Scenario with Source schematic or catchment Scenarios.
The Urban Developer Plugin User Guide assumes that readers are familiar with the eWater Source modelling framework.
Acknowledgements
This material has been adapted from:
eWater Cooperative Research Centre (2011) Urban Developer User Guide: Urban Developer v1.0.0, eWater Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra, 29 June 2011. ISBN 978-1-921543-40-1
Further Reading
Kavetski, D., Binning, P., & Sloan, S. W. (2002) Adaptive backward Euler time-stepping with truncation error control for numerical modelling of unsaturated fluid flow. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 53(6), 1301 - 1322.
Micevski, T., Thyer, M., Kuczera, G. (2011). A Behavioural Approach for Household Outdoor Water Use Modelling. Paper submitted to Water Resources Research (April 2011).
Roberts, P. (2005). 2004 Residential End Use Measurement Study, Final Report: Yarra Valley Water, Victoria.
Thyer, M.A., Duncan, H., Coombes, P., Kuczera, G. and Micevski, T. (2009) A Probabilistic Behavioural Approach for the Dynamic Modelling of Indoor Household Water Use. 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, 30 November – 3 December 2009, Newcastle, Australia.
Thyer, M., Micevski, T., Kuczera, G., and Coombes, P. (2011) A Behavioural Approach to Stochastic End Use Modelling. Paper presented at Oz Water, 9-11 May 2011, Adelaide.