Paper Info
Title
Performance of partitioned water distribution networks under spatial-temporal variability of water demand.
Abstract
Water network partitioning (WNP) into District Meter Areas allows improving pressure management, water budget, leaks detection, compared to classical redundantly looped networks. Anyway, WNP can significantly worsen the hydraulic performance, because often many gate valves are required, and the reduced set of possible paths for water flow makes the network vulnerable, especially to concentrated peaks of water request. Hence, reliably modeling the spatial and temporal distribution of water demand would allow better understanding the effects of WNP, improving both network design and management. Aiming at taking into account the behavior of a partitioned network under spatial and temporal variability of water demand, a design procedure is proposed, coupling a stochastic model of water demand with novel partitioning techniques, based on spectral clustering. The application of the procedure to a real medium-sized network shows that demand variability may significantly affect the hydraulic performance of the partitioned network, evaluated by means of topological and hydraulic indices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.12.020
Environmental Modelling & Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Water network partitioning,Water demand,Spectral clustering,District meter area
Spectral clustering,Coupling,Water flow,Network planning and design,Computer science,Hydrology,Distribution networks,Gate valve,Stochastic modelling,Water demand,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
101
1364-8152
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Armando Di Nardo122.86
Michele Di Natale222.52
R. Gargano300.34
Carlo Giudicianni420.83
Roberto Greco553.40
Giovanni Francesco Santonastaso620.83