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SWMM 5 Variable Time Step

In the SWMM 5 Simulation Options/Dynamic Wave Options is the Variable Time Step Frame which contains the Adjustment Factor Percentage. The Adjustment Factor is a multiplication factor for the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition.

Plot of time step in conjunction with Total Inflow 

The effiect of changing the Adjustment factor can be seen in the following graph. As the value of the adjustment factor changes from 75 to 50 to 25 the time step used in the program decreases because the time step gets further away from the CFL time step condition.

The effect of the Time Step Adjustment Factor

Last updated by Robert E Dickinson Dec. 25, 2008.

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