Water Simulation

The Human-Competitive Awards, the ג€œHumiesג€, are awarded to techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation that are competitive with the work of creative and inventive humans. The Darwin Designer team, from Haestad Methods, won an honorable mention this year for their water distribution design genetic algorithm solver. The method is presented in ג€œOPTIMIZING WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT [...]

Here is a message from Dr. Avi Ostfeld: Dear Colleagues, On May 26, 2005 I have issued a call to this list on a “Battle of the Sensors” exercise as part of the planned Special Issue of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security. Since than I have [...]

Derceto, Inc. were one of the exhibitors at the AWWA Annual Conference (ACE05) in San Francisco in June. The company released an article titled: “Implementing an Energy Management System for Distribution Pumping“. Here are a few words taken from the publication just to get you started: The system generates an optimized pump schedule solution for [...]

Manuel Lֳ³pez-Ibֳ¡ֳ±ez, currently at the School of the Built Environment of Napier University in Edinburgh (UK), adapted the EPANET Toolkit version 2.00.10 to GNU/Linux. A number of new features were added: Calculation of pump switches Saves time of day (in seconds) when a pump changes its status. The vector of pump scheduling is obtained using [...]

Following the cal for the Special JWRPM Issue on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security, Avi Ostfeld sent the information regarding the “Battle of the Sensors”: Dear Colleagues, Following my announcement of yesterday on a Special Issue of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security, here are a few [...]

The following call was received form Dr. Avi Ostfeld: Dear Colleagues, Following the EWRI conference in Anchorage, Alaska, May 15-19, 2005, and the growing interest in water distribution systems security, a special issue of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security has been approved. The special JWRPM issue [...]

By Wallingford Software, UK Water distribution authorities around the world have formal obligations to supply water to fight fires, and to check regularly that they meet these obligations. Underprovision of this vital community resource is not acceptable. However, overprovision also could have its problems. Because fire flow is often the dominant factor in sizing a [...]

“With financial help from the Pentagon, Israeli scientists develop a means for identifying any kind of water contamination. The well-equipped Israeli defense establishment may receive a significant addition by the end of the year – an artificial tongue. Teams of scientists at three of Israel’s universities – Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University [...]

The following information was taken from the Skat Foundation web page: The Skat Foundation aims to contribute to the reduction of the gap between rich and poor through knowledge sharing and providing advice to partners in developing countries and countries in transition. It promotes sustainable improvement of the living conditions of the disadvantaged, particularly the [...]

The ASCE published last month guidelines for designing an online contaminant monitoring system for water systems. The following is from the ASCE web site: “Interim Voluntary Guidelines for Designing an Online Contaminant Monitoring System provides information on designing online contaminant monitoring systems, including assessing the need for a monitoring system, locating instruments and sensors, and [...]