Water Simulation

Lewis Rossman just announced the release on a New Maintenance Release of EPANET 2: In preparation for the release of the Multi-Species Water Quality Modeling Extension to EPANET, we have just loaded a new maintenance update of EPANET, 2.00.11, to the new home page for EPANET: http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/dw/epanet.html. The only new features we added were to [...]

Have you noticed the new web site EPANET.com? This new site states that it is: Your one-stop source for software technology, news, and collaboration for the municipal water distribution modeling industry. The site brings industry headlines, EPANet files download, few white papers, one book for sale and a registration form for a forum. In the [...]

During the last year, 277 posts were sent for 100 topics in the EPANet user-list. The archive for all the posts can be found in the forums section.

Armando Barreto over at Zonum Solutions is looking for beta-testers for his new release – epa2kmz. From Zonums Solutions web site: Epa2kmz transforms NET Files to KMZ format. It allows to visualize Epanet projects in Google Earth, using the GE imagery as background. Epa2kmz can transform the Network Map or the Network Map and the [...]

From the EPA web site: EPANET is used in homeland security research to model contamination threats to water systems. Historically, EPANET has been limited to tracking the dynamics of a single chemical transported through a network of pipes and storage tanks. EPANET did not consider interactions between bulk species in the water or the surface [...]

Armando Barreto, a student at the University of Arizona, wrote me about his new free tool will extract geometric data contained in ESRI-shape files into EPANet INP files. shp2epa was designed with an interface similar to dxf2epa for a familiar feeling for the user.

News from Manuel Lֳ³pez-Ibֳ¡ֳ±ez: Version 1.4 of EPANET Toolkit for GNU/Linux has been released on 27 June 2006. This version of EPANET Toolkit is an adaptation of the original EPANET Toolkit version 2.00.10 to GNU/Linux with additional bug fixes and improvements. Nevertheless, source code should compile even on Windows environments (as it has been reported [...]

optiUnits (beta) is a freeware tool that will allow the user to convert an EPANet model from one set of units to a different one. Usage: Export your model from EPANet to an INP file. Run optiUnits. Click the File button and select the INP file. From the drop-down box, select the unit set that [...]

Manuel Lֳ³pez-Ibֳ¡ֳ±ez, who adapted the EPANET Toolkit version 2.00.10 to GNU/Linux, posted a note that it is possible to run the EPANET GUI in Linux. This is done be using the GNU/Linux program called Wine HQ that can run Win32 executable files in Linux (and maybe in FreeBSD and SUN’s Solaris). Please, check Wine documentation [...]

ATS-Chester developed an interface to link EPAג€™s EPANET software with ESRIג€™s ArcGISֲ® software (it seems that it is an old version). Applications: Water system modeling Water quality management Facility planning GIS integration User-friendly modeling Features: Developed using ESRIג€™s latest ArcObjects technology. Adds a new toolbar to ArcGIS standard interface. Allows you to create and edit [...]