Water Simulation Packages (WSP)

From Wallingford Software web site:

InfoWorks WS offers the most effective way to achieve an accurate view of the performance of your network and meet your various objectives. Water quality, the effective management of water supply during drought conditions, the identification of weaknesses in the network infrastructure and many other issues can all be monitored and remedies identified through the development and ongoing maintenance of a high quality all mains model.

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InfoWorks WS includes the following simulation modules:

• Dynamic Water Quality Module: analyses water quality components of a water supply network system
• Autocalibration Module: an invaluable tool for fine tuning model calibration
• Fire Flow Analysis Module
• Sediment Module: integrates hydraulic modeling with sedimentation modeling
• InfoWorks ‘Viewer’: everything appears just as it does in InfoWorks WS. It is fully functional with respect to its ability to view data and results in the various graphical and tabular views

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InfoWorks WS (Water Supply)

From Boss International web site:

StormNET Builder™ is the most advanced, powerful, and comprehensive stormwater and wastewater modeling package available for analyzing and designing urban drainage systems, stormwater sewers, and sanitary sewers. StormNET Builder is the only model that combines complex hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality in a completely graphical, easy-to-use interface. Both imperial and metric (SI) units are supported.

Network Analysis Components

• Watershed subbasins
• Inlets & catchbasins
• Detention Ponds
• Complex outlet structures
• Standpipes, weirs & orifices
• Stormwater & wastewater sewers
• Pumps & lift stations
• Manholes & junctions
• Rivers, streams & ditches
• Culverts & bridges

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StormNET Builder

From Advantica web site:

“SynerGEE Water is a simulation software package used to model and analyze water distribution systems. It is brought to you by Advantica, the global leader in engineering simulation technology.”

Among the usual features of a water simulation package, SynerGee Water offers a set of addon modules. Here are a few words about each one of them:

Customer Management Module (CMM)
The Customer Management Module (CMM) of SynerGEE Water allows you to create a link between your customer information system (CIS). Once established, customer information can be viewed at individual (or groups) of pipes and nodes within SynerGEE.

Area Isolation Module (AIM)
You tell AIM which point in the system requires isolation and AIM graphically identifies the valves that need to be closed and shows you the total area impacted with loss of service.

OnLine Module (OLM)
The OnLine Module (OLM)for SynerGEE Water allows automatic transfer of operational and reference data from your SCADA system into SynerGEE for use in performing steady-state and time-varying network simulations.

SubsystemManagement Module (SMM)
The SubsystemManagement Module (SMM) of SynerGEE Water offers several methods for simplifying work on a piping system model. You can: extract and merge subsystem data, work in a simplified or skeletal version of the model for studies that don’t require detailed analyses of all model features, reduce the level of graphical and hydraulic detail of the model by removing or equivalencing nodes and pipes that you think are unnecessary for subsequent modeling.

Reliability Analysis Module
The Reliability Analysis module enables you to determine how your system will respond to pipe failure and measure the resulting impact on your system’s water supply.You can run analyses using steady-state peak hour analysis or time-varying analysis to fi nd the impact of failure on every facility within your system or within a selected subset.Using these results, you can determine your ability to deliver the required demand at each node.

For more information see SynerGee Water web page.

From TechnoLogismiki web site:

The official version of the Hydraulic Programs suite for Windows 9x/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003, includes the following modules:

• Gravity Networks: Storm networks, Sewer networks, Water collection inlets
• Networks Under Pressure: Water networks, Pressure networks
• Profiles: Network profiles
• Network Quantities & Budgets: Quantities calculation, Budget and Construction costs
• Dams: Reservoir simulation, Hydropower works
• Pressure Flow: Pump calculation, Water hammer
• Free Surface Flow: Flood routing, Culverts
• Hydrology: Hydrographs synthesis, Flood flows, Water balance model
• River hydraulics: Uniform flow in streams and rivers, Non-uniform flow in streams and rivers, River profiles

The water networks module solves water networks consisted of junctions, pipes, valves, pumps, tanks and reservoirs. The program can be used to derive the steady state solution or an extended variable solution. It is compatible with EPANET and you can import - export files from and to EPANET. A partial list of its features follows:

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Hydraulic Programs suite v4.x

From Hydronics Engineering web site:

Spreadsheet for single or multiple hydrant flow tests. Unlimited number of flow test locations and outlets flowed. Dynamic Graph responds immediately to changes. Extrapolated flow at 0 psi, 20 psi or any user defined pressure. Report and Graph for each individual flow test. Summary displays all records in the flow test database. Search flow test database for results matching file name, hydrant, location, date, static, residual, flow and other variables. Export results to Microsoft Excel.

For more information see Hydronics Engineering web page.

From Haestad Methods web site:

SewerCAD is the most advanced design, analysis, and planning tool, handling both pressurized force mains and gravity hydraulics with ease. SewerCAD leads the market hands-down with features such as steady-state analysis using various standard peaking factors, extended-period simulations of complete collection systems, and advanced automatic system design. SewerCAD’s easy-to-use interface allows you to spend time engineering improved sewer designs instead of wasting your time learning software!

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Cost effective solutions for complex modeling problems:

• Gravity Collection
• Pressure Piping (Forcemains)
• Automated Design
• Flexible Loading
• Infiltration and Inflow
• Scenario Management
• AutoCAD or Stand-Alone
• GIS, SCADA, and Database Links
• Construction Drawings
• Report-Ready Output

For more information see SewerCAD web page.

From Wallingford Software:

Overview
InfoWorks CS provides water utilities with a uniquely effective tool with which to undertake hydrological modeling of the complete urban water cycle. Essential for identifying and justifying cost effective infrastructure improvements, InfoWorks CS also provides a practical method for operational control, including real time control, of your wastewater network. Other applications include urban flooding and pollution prediction and the modeling of water quality and sediment transport throughout the network.

As well as supporting fast and accurate network modeling, there are specific tools to support the modeling of subcatchment take-off and infiltration. Offering exceptionally fast and robust simulations, InfoWorks CS facilitates the swift modeling of total networks or any sub-network. Users may now simulate models of up to 100,000 nodes with confidence that the results will be as accurate as those for far smaller models.

Example Applications

• Undertake drainage and sewerage master planning or studies
• Assess the impact of climate change on urban drainage systems
• Effectively implement sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)
• Undertake hydraulic analysis of wastewater treatment works
• Identify solutions to intermittent discharges from sewerage systems (UID’s, CSO’s or SSO’s)
• Flooding and pollution prediction
• Modeling of sediment transport and water quality
• Secondary drainage and urban storm water system assessment and management
• Wastewater system assessment and management
• Infiltration and inflow assessments
• Urban drainage storm runoff control and retention design and assessment
• Urban storm water quality assessments and pollution control
• Combined / wastewater interceptor system design and analysis

For more information see Infoworks CS web page.

From GAEA Technologies web site:

We are very pleased to announce that WinLoG Version 4 has been released. This upgrade has taken over two years to develop and represents the culmination of many of our users and internal ideas for enhancements.

The geographical information system feature added in version 4 displays a location map for the project showing the boreholes, cross-sections, and any surface features. This feature makes it easy to visualize your project and can be used to print a location map of the project. To edit a borehole all you need to do is click on it in the location map.

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WinLoG 4.0

The following information was received from Innovative Hydraulics:

What is Visual Hydraulics?
Visual Hydraulics is a state of the art, flexible hydraulic analysis tool. It is used primarily for modeling the hydraulic characteristics of water and wastewater treatment plants, and is capable of analyzing entire hydraulic profiles. The program follows the traditional method for analyzing water surface profiles: a downstream control point is selected, and the hydraulic profile is then determined upstream of that control point.

What can Visual Hydraulics model?
Visual Hydraulics covers most of the hydraulic features typically encountered in a treatment plant application. A user may analyze the following features: full flow pipes, open channels (rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular, circular), tanks, orifice/baffle/gate(s), weirs (v-notch, rectangular, sharp crested, Cipolletti, contracted, and broad crested), flumes (Parshall, rectangular, trapezoidal, cutthroat), racks/screening devices, tank launders, filter media, contraction/enlargements, and Venturi meters. Submerged weir and flume analysis is also included.

Visual Hydraulics Features:

• Full hydraulic analysis capabilities for almost any hydraulic feature.
• Multiple flow options, including any number of return flows.
• Take units off-line or put units on-line and see how it affects the hydraulic profile.
• Specialty tools, including unequal flow splitting, user defined loss equations, and manifolds/diffusers.
• Built-in alerts catch unwanted conditions, such as high velocities, weir submergence, and high losses.
• Advanced summary features including summary equations, diagrams, and reports.
• Analyze an entire hydraulic profile or just one hydraulic feature.

For more information see Innovative Hydraulics web page.

From Pipeflow Software web site:

A wide range of hydraulic engineering problems can be solved with Net-Pipe steady-state simulation and unsteady-state simulation: Water-hammer studies for hydroelectric power plants, analyses of surge pressure alleviation for oil pipelines, layout studies for pipe installations, or capacity calculations for water distribution networks, to name a few. Net-Pipe is designed for the hydraulic engineer and for the technical specialist with a background in fluid mechanics.

You can use Microsoft Visio to drag-and-drop the pipe network elements from a customized stencil containing the Net-Pipe hydraulic elements:

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Net-Pipe by Pipeflow Software