Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks

by Pramod R. Bhave

Design of water distribution networks is traditionally based on trial-and-approach in which the designer assumes, based on experience and judgment, sizes of different elements and successively modifies them until a network with satisfactory hydraulic performance is obtained. This text

• Essential hydraulic, economic optimization principles.
• Theory is developed gradually for optimal design of simple, single-source branched networks subjected to single loading to complex, multiple-source looped networks subjected to multiple loading.
• Strengthening and expansion of existing networks and also reliability-based design.
• Several illustrative examples enabling the reader to apply them in practice- approximately 100 line drawings.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Hydraulic Principles
• Economic Principles
• Optimization Principles
• Network Parameters
• Pumping Main
• Branched Continuous variable
• Branch Discrete Variable
• Looped Explicit Approach
• Looped Implicit Approach
• Optimal Layout
• Multiple Loading and Multiple Sources
• Modifications and Expansion
• Concept and Assessment
• Reliability-Based Design
• References
• Index

460 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2004