Flood Version 10.03.00.01 -ModelBasin Error 200 when Simulating Urban Flood Simulation Example

Question

Hello 
 I'mworking through the Urban flood simulation training example with the latest version of Flood. When executing the simulation im receiving an error 200 , with the Basin.Module - see atttatched pic. 
 
 What does this error mean.? How do I fix it?

Luis Fernandes · Answer

Hi Craig, 
 In the Basin module configuration you've selected the option "Initial Conditions -> Continue from previous simulation" but the simulation you are trying to run is a "cold start" run, meaning it does not have any information available to start from. This option should be set to True when, for example, you run a simulation for the month of January and then want to run a continuation of that simulation for the month of February and you want to pick up the initial conditions from the final results of the January run. OpenFlows FLOOD always write a "restart" file by default, so you can always restart and continue your model simulation. 
 If you set this option to False, then the simulation will start with the default initial conditions, and the error will not appear. 
 Please let me know if this solves the problem and if you need any additional information. 
 Thanks and regards, 
 Luis

Luis Fernandes · Answer

Hi Craig, 
 Is this a "MOHID Land" or "Urban Flood Simulator" model simulation? It seems you have activated the option "Drainage Network Module" in the Basin configuration but you have not added the Drainage Network module to your simulation. 
 I don't think you need that option activated for the urban flood training example, so please set it to False. If that does not solve the problem, could you export the workspace and upload it here please? You can do that by following the instructions here . 
 Please let me know if you need any additional information. 
 Thanks and regards, Luis

Luis Fernandes · Answer

Hi Craig, 
 I've reviewed your simulation setup. Here are my remarks: 
 1) In Basin you had set the option "Runoff Properties" as True. This should be False. This option, if True, enables you to add the RunOff properties module, which computes the transport/dispersion of water constituents (or water properties) based on the flows computed by the RunOff module. In this simulation there is no transport of constituents, so you can set that to False. 
 2) In the Stormwater model, you had set the stormwater file path to the "Stormwater Model GR_ConnectionPoints.dat" instead of the "Stormwater Model GR_StormwaterModel.inp" file. 
 If you correct this 2 options, everything should be fine. 
 We are in the process of releasing the update user manuals for FLOOD 10.03 which should be available soon. Meanwhile, I attach below the FLOOD 10.03 user guide, dataset and workspace for urban flood simulations so you don't have to wait any longer. 
 This includes the ready to run workspace and all the instructions required to go from the raw dataset to the simulation. 
 UFS10.03.zip 
 Please let me know if you need any additional help. Thanks and regards, Luis