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Speeding up the water distribution network design optimization using the Delta Q method

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Ivetić, Damjan
Vasilić, Željko
Stanić, Miloš
Prodanović, Dušan
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To optimize the design of a water distribution network (WDN), a large number of possible solutions need to be examined; hence computation efficiency is an important issue. To accelerate the computation, one can use more powerful computers, parallel computing systems with adapted hydraulic solvers, hybrid algorithms, more efficient hydraulic methods or any combination of these techniques. This paper explores the possibility to speed up optimization using variations of the Delta Q method to solve the network hydraulics. First, the Delta Q method was used inside the evaluation function where each tested alternative was hydraulically solved and ranked. Then, the convergence criterion was relived in order to reduce the computation time. Although the accuracy of the obtained hydraulic results was reduced, these were feasible and interesting solutions. Another modification was tested, where the Delta Q method was used just once to solve the hydraulics of the initial network, and the unknown f...low corrections were added to the list of other unknown variables subject to optimization. Two case networks were used for testing and were compared to the results obtained using EPANET2. The obtained results have shown that the use of the Delta Q method in hydraulic computations can significantly accelerate the optimization of WDN.

Keywords:
Delta Q method / acceleration / efficiency / genetic algorithms / looped networks / minimal basis loops
Source:
Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2016, 18, 1, 33-48
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  • IWA Publishing
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  • Urban Drainage Systems as Key Infrastructure in Cities and Towns (RS-37010)

DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2015.118

ISSN: 1464-7141

WoS: 000374314400004

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85000444131
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