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OpenFlows Hydraulic Toolset

Hydraulic Calculator Toolset for Effortless Design and Analysis

Solve Design Challenges And Analyze Hydraulic Elements Quickly And Easily

Bentley’s OpenFlows Hydraulic Toolset is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, hydraulic calculator software that helps engineers solve design challenges for individual hydraulic components–as opposed to the entire network model, which is better analyzed in OpenFlows Water, OpenFlows Sewer, or OpenFlows Storm. It is a set of companion applications for performing quick calculations to analyze a variety of hydraulic elements.  

OpenFlows Hydraulic Toolset includes the capabilities of OpenFlows CulvertMaster and OpenFlows FlowMaster.  

Perform culvert
design and analysis

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Conduct hydraulic
element analysis

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Solve real problems in minutes with a user-friendly interface

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OpenFlows Hydraulic Toolset

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  • Hydraulic Calculations and Analysis
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    Hydraulic Calculations and Analysis

    For hydraulic elements, such as open channels, pipes, roadway inlets, gutters, orifices, and weirs, the software’s hydraulic analysis capabilities help engineers quickly calculate depth, flow, side slope, discharge rate, roughness required and more. Engineers can specify the element property to solve for, and instantly see results for other properties as well, including velocity, hydraulic radius, Froude number, etc.

    • Improve design productivity and reduce project costs.
    • Solve real problems in minutes with a user-friendly interface.
    • Produce detailed reports, rating curves, and flow profiles.

    Design and Analyze Any Type of Hydraulic Element

    Pipe Design Solver can solve for your specified pipe length, start or stop elevation, pressure, discharge, diameter, or roughness.

    Inlet and Gutter Hydraulic Calculator is based on Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 22 methodologies, and includes grate, curb, combination, ditch, and slotted-drain inlets, for both on-grade and in-sag installations.

    Open-Channel Hydraulics Calculator solves for discharge, capacity, normal depth, gradually varied flow profile, channel dimensions, slope, or roughness, and allows the user to choose a weighted roughness method.

    Weir and Orifice Calculators can be used to evaluate and size rectangular, broad-crested, V-notch, and Cipolletti weir types, and rectangular, circular, and generic orifice structures.

  • Culvert Hydraulic Analysis and Design
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    Culvert Hydraulic Analysis and Design 

    The software’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-approved culvert analysis capabilities streamline complicated culvert hydraulics. These features accommodate everything from single-barrel culvert crossings to complex embankment cross-drain systems with multiple barrels having different shapes, sizes, and entrance types, special tailwater considerations, and roadway overtopping. Culverts can be automatically sized for a specified maximum headwater and flow. 

    • Deliver robust, report-ready culvert designs.
    • Evaluate existing culverts and compare numerous design options.
    • Organize all the designs and analyses for the same project within a single file.

    Comprehensive Analysis and Design

    Quick Culvert Calculator provides calculations for simple culverts with known characteristics.

    Culvert Analyzer can be used for more complex systems with roadway overtopping and multiple barrels of different shapes and sizes.

    Culvert Design Calculator can be used to easily compare hydraulic performance for multiple design options.  Culvert computations use the widely accepted US FHWA’s Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts (HDS-5) Methodologies.  

A laptop displaying multiple software windows, including a data entry form, a file directory, and a graph chart.

Hydraulic Calculations and Analysis

For hydraulic elements, such as open channels, pipes, roadway inlets, gutters, orifices, and weirs, the software’s hydraulic analysis capabilities help engineers quickly calculate depth, flow, side slope, discharge rate, roughness required and more. Engineers can specify the element property to solve for, and instantly see results for other properties as well, including velocity, hydraulic radius, Froude number, etc.

  • Improve design productivity and reduce project costs.
  • Solve real problems in minutes with a user-friendly interface.
  • Produce detailed reports, rating curves, and flow profiles.

Design and Analyze Any Type of Hydraulic Element

Pipe Design Solver can solve for your specified pipe length, start or stop elevation, pressure, discharge, diameter, or roughness.

Inlet and Gutter Hydraulic Calculator is based on Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 22 methodologies, and includes grate, curb, combination, ditch, and slotted-drain inlets, for both on-grade and in-sag installations.

Open-Channel Hydraulics Calculator solves for discharge, capacity, normal depth, gradually varied flow profile, channel dimensions, slope, or roughness, and allows the user to choose a weighted roughness method.

Weir and Orifice Calculators can be used to evaluate and size rectangular, broad-crested, V-notch, and Cipolletti weir types, and rectangular, circular, and generic orifice structures.

A laptop displaying various analytical and graph plotting software windows, showing data tables, line graphs, and interface menus.

Culvert Hydraulic Analysis and Design 

The software’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-approved culvert analysis capabilities streamline complicated culvert hydraulics. These features accommodate everything from single-barrel culvert crossings to complex embankment cross-drain systems with multiple barrels having different shapes, sizes, and entrance types, special tailwater considerations, and roadway overtopping. Culverts can be automatically sized for a specified maximum headwater and flow. 

  • Deliver robust, report-ready culvert designs.
  • Evaluate existing culverts and compare numerous design options.
  • Organize all the designs and analyses for the same project within a single file.

Comprehensive Analysis and Design

Quick Culvert Calculator provides calculations for simple culverts with known characteristics.

Culvert Analyzer can be used for more complex systems with roadway overtopping and multiple barrels of different shapes and sizes.

Culvert Design Calculator can be used to easily compare hydraulic performance for multiple design options.  Culvert computations use the widely accepted US FHWA’s Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts (HDS-5) Methodologies.  

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Bentley’s Hydraulic Toolset software was instrumental at the design development phase in aiding with the multiple design challenges facing the project.

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