EPACAD – AutoCAD to EPANet
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 [...]
GeoAdvice Model Comparator
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 [...]
WaterIng – Water Distribution System Design and Analysis
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 [...]
TdhLite
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, [...]
Excel to EPANet
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, [...]
EPANet and Matlab
A visitor that came to this blog from Demetriosֲ Eliades’sֲ web site reminded me of the EPANet and Matlab issue. About 3 years ago I was busy preparing for the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN). A few people helped me test and debug the software utilities for the battle. One of them was Philip Jonkergouwֲ from [...]
A Step-by-Step Guide to EPANET 2.0 Simulations
Robert E. Pitt is a Professor at the University of Alabama. For his Urban Water Systems and Water Resources Engineering courses he wrote a Step-by-Step Guide to EPANET 2.0 Simulations. The guide starts with creating a new project, adding elements, moving, deleting and editing objects.ֲ The text is accompanied with many screen shots and editors [...]
EPANET-Z – add online maps and satellite images to EPANET
EPANet-Z (in free beta) from Zonum Solutions is a modified recompiled version of EPANet that adds the option to insert map and satellite images to the network’s backdrop. The program uses online services like Yahoo maps and Google maps to extract the images. From Zonum’s web site: The use of a backdrop file brought new [...]
EPANET-BAM
EPANET-BAM 1.0 is an augmented version of EPANET 2.00.10, open-source software distributed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that models flow and contaminant transport through water distribution pipe networks. EPANET-BAM uses a new Bulk Advective Mixing (BAM) model to predict concentrations of an aqueous solute at the outlets of cross junctions in a water quality [...]
MSX-GUI – Epanet Multi-Species Graphical User Interface
From Zonums Solutions: EPANET-MSX (EPA, 2007) is distributed as a stand-alone console application (command line application) In order to run it; the user must open a Command Prompt window in Windows, and navigate to the folder where epanetmsx.exe was saved. The syntax is: >> epanetmx example.inp example.msx example.rpt Where: example.inp describes the hydraulic characteristics of [...]