Flujo de trabajo eficiente y moderno basado en software de acceso libre para la realización de proyectos de diseño y/o análisis de sistemas de drenaje pluvial. Caso de estudio: asentamientos Rioverde y Palestina, provincia Esmeralda, Ecuador.

Abstract

This contribution defines a workflow for carrying out hydraulic design and/or analysis projects for stormwater systems. This workflow is organized into four stages that include: 1- Data collection, generation and processing, 2- Hydrological-hydraulic modeling of the existing system, 3- Definition of variants and final designs, and 4- Selection of the design variant. Each of these stages is detailed in terms of: objectives, characteristics, activities, elements, actions, tools, products and formats, all with the aim of having an efficient and effective guide for the development of these projects. The workflow conceives the use of the QGIS’s plugin Generate Swmm Inp + Rstudio + Rmarkdown + GitHub as technological tools for the entire process, allowing work in a single technological ecosystem in which projects are developed that include all the elements of technical reports, i.e. plain text with different styles, formats, etc., tables, graphics (from external sources or generated by means of calculations that are performed entirely in Rstudio), maps, treatment of citations and bibliographic references (with the required style), automated generation of the main tables of contents (or indexes) of the document, tables and figures, equations, different output formats such as .docx, pdf, html, as well as a very sophisticated version control system such as Github, which also allows all generated products to be fully reproducible. This workflow is applied to the hydraulic design of the storm drainage networks of the Palestina and Rioverde communities of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.