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Kirpich Method Tc?

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Why don't you have Kirpich Method in HydroCAD, Peter? It's such a simple, and relatively prevalent method, its omission always seemed strange to me.



Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East -
 
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No, Kirpich is not currently in HydroCAD. This is the first request. I'll add it to the wish-list for further consideration.


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It's the method that shows up in nomograph form in all the drainage manuals down here, and it's a much simpler one than some of the others. I like to at least run it as a check against the SCS methodology, which as you know is highly spurious due to being heavily weighted towards sheet flow properties that aren't necessarily characteristic of the regional watershed.

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Peter, TxDOT is using Kerby-Kirpich method for overland-channel flow TOC estimate (TxDOT 2014 manual: Also, to account for flat topographic slope areas, TxDOT proposed a modified Kerby-Kirpich method based on a 2012 Paper by Cleveland et al. (
I would like to see HydroCAD have the full TxDOT method implemented so that the users have the options to do the following different calcs at their choices:

1. Kerby method only;
2. Kirpich method only;
3. Kerby and Kirpich
4. Modified methods to #1,2, and 3 to account for flat slopes.
 
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