Water Simulation

WaterIng is a software research program of the Multidisciplinary Group of Fluid Modelling in Valencia (GMMF):ֲ  WaterIng is a software package for water distribution system design and analysis. It offers a multi-objective evolutionary optimization engine based on distributed artificial intelligence to support design and operation decision-making (Agent Swarm Optimization). Improved solutions from both hydraulic and [...]

During the summer of 2009 a large number of water pipe breaks occurred in Los Angeles. Apparently,ֲ  there were 101 blowouts in the summer of 2009 (July, August and September) compared to 42 in 2008, 49 in 2007 and 48 in 2006. As a consequence of the public request for an explanation an independent investigation [...]

Tim Hirrel sent me his new product release info for Tdhnet: 3 new hydraulic network modeling products have been released and are now available for download. These products are the latest releases in the Tdhnet line of hydraulic network software and represent a major breakthrough in the availability of cross platform hydraulic network models. TdhLite, [...]

Online water demand data, published by EPCOR, show that Canadians have invented a new kind of sport – synchronized toilet flushing. It seems that all the TV viewer of the Olympic gold medal hockey game flushed their toilet at the same time during breaks in the game. ֲ  ֲ  via: Pat’s Papers

Following the Battle of the Water Networks (BWN) in 1985 and more recently the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN) I’m happy to announce the Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN): The BWCN calls for teams/individuals from academia, consulting firms, and utilities to propose a calibration methodology and apply it to a real [...]

Oliver Diaz sent me a link to an Excel addon he wrote to convert Excel data to the INP file of EPANet. In addition, it can export excel data to AutoCAD by generating a dxf file. Points with coordinates X, Y, Z from an excel sheet can be exported to a dxf file as points, [...]

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American colleague regarding the maximum water pressure at home connections. He was amazed to hear that the water pressure at my house is about 9 bars. To show him I was not mistaken I connected a pressure gauge in my garden and took a few [...]

The University of Arizona and the Technion are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis conference (WDSA 2010) to be held September 12-15, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. (WDSA2010.org) Milestone Date First Call for Papers November 1, 2009 Second Call for Papers December 1, 2009 Abstracts Due February 1, 2010 Decision on Abstracts [...]

The American Museum of Natural History in New-York has an exhibition called Water: H2O = Life. The same museum show an animation of the story of the New-York water system. Liquid Assets: Liquid Assets, a ninety-minute documentary, tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and stormwater. These systems ג€” some in the ground [...]

In the past two week two large deals were made in the water simulation softwareֲ  market. The first one is the joining of MWH Soft and Wallingford Software: MWH Soft, based in Broomfield, Colorado, U.S. and Wallingford Software, based in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. are both leading providers of hydraulic modeling software to water and wastewater [...]