Visual Water Engineering Calculators
Visual Calculators combine engineering calculations with live diagrams, charts, editable inputs, and practical result summaries so users can see how water systems respond as values change.
What makes these different?
Interactive inputs
Move sliders for quick exploration or type exact values into input boxes for more precise checks.
Live graphics
Diagrams, charts, and result cards update as values change so the user can understand the system behavior visually.
Engineering notes
Each tool includes assumptions, warnings, and a short result summary that helps users interpret the calculation.
Visual calculator roadmap
Manning Channel Visual Calculator
First interactive prototype with a live channel section, rating curve, and normal depth estimate.
Status: ready after plugin activation.
Culvert Hydraulics Visual Calculator
Future flagship tool for culvert shape, slope, roughness, headwater, tailwater, and overtopping checks.
Detention Routing Visual Calculator
Future tool for hydrograph routing, stage-storage, outlet structures, and peak flow reduction.
Bridge Opening Visual Calculator
Future tool for bridge opening, low chord, freeboard, water surface, and roadway overtopping concepts.
Manning Channel Visual Calculator
Change channel geometry, roughness, slope, and flow targets to see live hydraulic results, a channel cross-section, and a rating curve.
Inputs
Live visual
Results
Educational preliminary tool only. Confirm final design using applicable agency criteria, field survey, and accepted hydraulic modeling software.
How this section should evolve
The existing numeric calculators should stay in place, but the most important tools can be upgraded into Visual Calculators over time. This keeps the current SEO value while creating a more engaging product experience for users, students, facility owners, suppliers, and potential training partners.