COMPUTER IZAT1ON OF WATER DISTRIBUiON NETWORK. ANALYSIS

Abstract

The Costliest Constituent of most of the water supply systems is the distribution network. Very little attention has been paid by the designers in developing and practicising theoretically sound and economic methods so far. This is perhaps due to the fact that logical analysis of a network involves complex and cumbersome operations which are no doubt rather impossible to deal with hand computation, With the advent of electronic computer a systematic approach to the solution of the problem is feasible. Three computer programs for the analysis of new and old pipe line networks have been evolved. Equivalent pipe method evolves the economic sizes of pipe lines and is useful for new systems. Iterative and Newton Raphson methods solve the network and these are specially useful for the analysis of networks in reorganisation schemes