OpenFlows water, wastewater, and stormwater software technologies combine real-time intelligence with spatial analytics, delivering visibility and insights to ensure optimal real-world outcomes.
Role-Based Onboarding Experience
- Drainage Engineer – Stormwater Conveyance System
- Hydraulic Engineer – Transient Analysis
- Sanitary Engineer – Wastewater Collection System
- Water Modeler – Water Distribution System
Drainage Engineer
Overview
Learn about hydraulics and hydrology as they apply to the design of storm sewer systems, as well as instruction on applying the software for storm sewer hydraulic design and analysis.
Application/Software Used
- OpenFlows CivilStorm
- OpenFlows Pondpack
- OpenFlows SewerGEMS
- OpenFlows StormCAD
Training Courses (LEARNserver)
- Stormwater System Design and Modeling (Fundamentals)
- Stormwater System Design and Modeling (Advanced)
Hydraulic Engineer
Overview
Learn about using OpenFlows HAMMER, causes of hydraulic transients and water hammer, and how to protect systems against them. You will gain the knowledge necessary to recognize the types of systems prone to transients and to proactively manage the associated risks that are associated with it.
Application/Software Used
- OpenFlows HAMMER
Training Courses (LEARNserver)
- Transients in Unprotected Line
- Pipeline Protection
- Network Risk Evaluation
- Multi-Point Network Protection
- Transients in Hydropower System
Sanitary Engineer
Overview
Learn about collection system hydraulics, new system design, and capacity analysis for wastewater collection systems.
Application/Software Used
- OpenFlows SewerCAD
- OpenFlows SewerGEMS
Training Courses (LEARNserver)
Water Modeler
Overview
Learn about the features of WaterCAD or WaterGEMS.
Application/Software Used
- OpenFlows WaterCAD
- OpenFlows WaterGEMS
Training Courses (LEARNserver)
- Modeling Fundamentals
- Importing Basic Model Data
- Pumps, Tanks and Valves
- Steady State Calibration
- System Planning and Design
- Automated Fire-Flow
- Criticality and Pressure Zones
- Extended Period Simulation (EPS) Modeling
- Geo-Spatial Data
- Automated Calibration
- Pipe Renewal Planner
- Automated Design
- Pump System Design and Operations
- Water Quality Modeling
- Flushing
- Leakage Detection and Calibration
- Setting Up SCADA Signals
- Skeletonizing Large Models
Videos
Training Videos
- Water Fundamentals Training (WaterGEMS/WaterCAD) (20 Videos)
- Water Advanced Training (WaterGEMS) (16 Videos)
- HAMMER Training (WaterGEMS) (22 Videos)
- Sewer Fundamentals (16 Videos)
- Sewer Advanced Training (SewerGEMS) (9 Videos)
- Stormwater Fundamentals Training (StormCAD, CivilStorm, SewerGEMS) (19 Videos)
- Stormwater Advanced Training (StormCAD, CivilStorm, SewerGEMS) (9 Videos)
- OpenFlows FLOOD Fundamentals Training (14 Videos)
Learning Tip Videos
- WaterGEMS and WaterCAD CONNECT Edition (79 Videos)
- SewerGEMS CONNECT Edition (68 Videos)
- StormCAD CONNECT Edition (52 Videos)
- HAMMER CONNECT Edition (39 Videos)
- OpenFlows FLOOD (10 Videos)
- SewerCAD CONNECT Edition (55 Videos)
- CivilStorm CONNECT Edition (63 Videos)
- Tips for Constraint-Based Design (3 Videos)
- PondPack (15 Videos)
OpenFlows Special Interest Group (SIG)
Provides in-depth discussions highlighting program features and workflows.
Hydraulics and Hydrology – Special Interest Group (SIG) – Lectures
Join the OpenFlows Community
Provides Wiki articles, forum information, blog posts, files, and ideas.
Bentley Community for Hydraulics and Hydrology
Subscribe to the Bentley OpenFlows YouTube Channel
Provides various short overview videos on program features and capabilities.
Bentley Hydraulics and Hydrology Engineering YouTube Channel
User Success Stories
OpenFlows Product Datasheets
Bentley enables mine owner-operators to successfully provide sustainable water and wastewater systems with a comprehensive set of software applications to design, build, and operate water and wastewater infrastructure that is easily deployed to serve the challenging needs of mining operations.
Bentley’s fully integrated water and wastewater solution addresses the needs of owner-operators and engineers who contribute to the water infrastructure lifecycle.
OpenFlows WaterSight is a cloud-based solution that brings SCADA, GIS, hydraulic modeling, and customer information into a connected data environment, delivering cost-effective operations strategies in real time.
OpenFlows WaterGEMS is a hydraulic modeling application for water distribution systems with advanced interoperability, geospatial model building, optimization, and asset management tools.
OpenFlows WaterCAD is an easy-to-use hydraulic and water quality modeling application for water distribution systems.
OpenFlows StormCAD is a comprehensive modeling software program for the design and analysis of storm sewer systems.
OpenFlows SewerOPS is a real-time operational and optioneering decision support solution for wastewater treatment and conveyance.
From urban sewer planning to overflow remediation analysis to optimized best management practices and designs, OpenFlows SewerGEMS provides an easy-to-use environment for engineers to analyze, design, and operate sanitary or combined conveyance sewer systems, using built-in hydraulic and hydrology tools, and a variety of wet-weather calibration methods.
OpenFlows SewerCAD is an easy-to-use sanitary sewer modeling and design software product that thousands of municipalities, utilities, and engineering firms around the world trust to design, analyze, and plan wastewater collection systems.
OpenFlows is a versatile software program to model any project from basic site designs to complex drainage studies.
With OpenFlows HAMMER, perform the transient analysis and modeling in water or sewer systems to locate trouble spots and determine appropriate serge control strategies.
OpenFlows CulvertMaster is an extremely powerful yet easy-to-use calculator product that helps engineers design new culverts and analyze existing culvert hydraulics.
OpenFlows FlowMaster is an efficient calculator product for the design and analysis of a wide variety of hydraulic elements, such as pressure pipes, open channels, weirs, orifices, and inlets.
OpenFlows CivilStorm is a fully dynamic, multi-platform, hydraulic modeling solution developed for the analysis of complex stormwater systems.