Program Overview
Program Overview
The hydrologic cycle is the circulation of water through the hydrosphere which extends to about 14 km to the atmosphere and about 1km into the earth crust. The hydrological cycle has various
components and there is a continuous interchange of water among these different components of the cycle. Water is driven in the cycle by solar energy directly and indirectly, by Coriolis forces and gravitational and capillary forces. However, the total mass of water in the hydrological cycle remains constant.
Among other functions, MasterDRAIN Hydrology will produce rainfall files (*.IDF, *.RTC, *.CRP) that are used in the Microdrainage program. This gives Microdrainage users access to the hydrological database contained within the Hydrology program, or to use the Wallingford maps included in the program (by kind permission of H R Wallingford).
There is also the facility to view these files on screen. Please see the Hydrology workbook for more information.
'Microdrainage' is a registered name owned by Microdrainage Ltd, Newbury, Berks
MasterDRAIN Hydrology is a versatile program for deriving the Wallingford hydrological constants required by the Surface water program and other similar programs.
Some of the functions are:
This program will provide a useful toolbox of routines for calculating rainfall, determining return periods, calculating roof protection
rainfall figures and many more aspects of design. Ease and speed of use were the main criteria when writing this program.
Tthe complete UK hydrological maps (used by permission of, and published by, H R Wallingford) are available on screen,
plus a database of over 6248 locations in the UK and 300 Eire locations with the data already extracted.
Rainfall intensities may be calculated for any given location, and plotted on-screen for analysis. Intensities may be printed out
for a specific location with eight standard return periods on one sheet, at one minute intervals for the first hour of the storm.
Intensities may be plotted on a logarithmic scale up to 1000 minutes.
Civil Engineering or Building Services students will find this program invaluable as an introduction to general hydrology.
| Operating System |
Windows ® XP Windows ® 7 Windows ® 10 All 32 and 64bit |
| CPU |
Intel Pentium ® 4 AMD Athlon™ 64 processor and higher |
| Memory | 4 GB recommended |
| Display |
1600x1050 or higher recommended Capable of True Color |
| Disk space | 1 GB |
| Pointing device | MS Compliant mouse |
| Network | TCP/IP Protocol |
| Major figure | Major changes (new group of functions on the menu) |
| Minor figure | Minor changes (new function on a drop-down menu bar) |
| Revision figure | Revision (minor bugs fixed) |
