Water Simulation

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Prof. Stefano Mambretti is the co-chairman of Urban Water 2012, the 1st International Conference on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems to be held 25-27 April 2012 at New Forest, UK. He asked me to give notice for the call for papers. From the conference web-site: Introduction Water systems in the [...]

What do you see? The answer, posted on 27-01-2011 is at the end of the post A free copy of EPANet will be awarded to everyone who submits an answer Have you seen the pictures of the dry Niagara Falls? Update 15/01/2011: most of you are right, this is a damaged fire hydrant. However, what is that black circle [...]

I have been following the WaterWiSe@SG project for a few years now as I personally know one of the team members. Although I did hear from time to time bit and pieces of their work I could not really understand what the project is all about. For some reason the team did not publish their work and [...]

EPANet 3 is due sometime next year and it will probably be the last version supported by the US EPA. Last year, a proposal was made at the 2009 EWRI conference in Kansas City to establish an Open Source Project for EPANet. About two weeks ago, at the WDSA 2010 conference held in the Tucson AZ, Lew [...]

During the WDSA2010 conference, held in Tucson AZ, Lew Rossman gave a sneak peek into the future version of EPANet. It might be called 2.1 or 3.0 and it scheduled to be released probably next year. This will be the last release of EPANet by the US EPA! The following writeup is based on Lew’s paper [...]

A colleague wanted to convert an EPANet file to an AutoCAD drawing. After having a few issues with the DXF2EPAutility he found anothe program for this task – EPACAD. EPACAD, by the ITAresearch group over at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, is a free software which can converts an AUTOCAD file into an EPANET one. EPACAD is able to [...]

optiEDS – online, real time, event detection system for water networks. Coming soon…

When working with hydraulic models, especially of large networks, the user often face a problem when he wants to compare two versions on the model to see what changes were made. The GeoAdvice Model Comparator by GEOAdviceֲ aims to assist in this task.The program is an Excel Addon (requires Excel 2007) and currently can compare models [...]

ֲ From maplecroft: A new report evaluating the water security of 165 countries has rated the supply of clean, fresh water to the societies and businesses of 10 nations at “extreme risk.” I don’t have access to the full report so I have not read it yet. If you have a copy and can shareֲ it with [...]