Publications by authors named "Seith N Mugume"
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- Hydrodynamic separators help control suspended solids in stormwater before it's released into natural water bodies.
- The study focused on a separator designed with a swirling flow that effectively gathers sediments at the center for settling.
- Results indicated that larger separator diameters lead to better sediment removal rates, and a new dimensionless parameter was introduced to optimize separator design, aiming for a removal rate of over 80%.
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- The research emphasizes the importance of strengthening urban drainage systems (UDSs) against climate change and urban development challenges by utilizing Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI).
- Using advanced modeling techniques, the study evaluates various BGI components in two UDS case studies in Kampala that are prone to severe flooding from heavy rainfall.
- Results indicate that implementing rainwater harvesting systems can significantly reduce flood volume and duration, particularly effective during moderate rainfall events, leading to a recommendation for broader city-scale adoption of these systems for enhanced resilience.
Building resilience in urban drainage systems requires consideration of a wide range of threats that contribute to urban flooding. Existing hydraulic reliability based approaches have focused on quantifying functional failure caused by extreme rainfall or increase in dry weather flows that lead to hydraulic overloading of the system. Such approaches however, do not fully explore the full system failure scenario space due to exclusion of crucial threats such as equipment malfunction, pipe collapse and blockage that can also lead to urban flooding.
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