Computer aided automatic water pipe network analysis by simultaneous loop equation solution method
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Jha, Kailash; Mishra, Manish Kumar
- Source
- 2016 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT) Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), 2016 3rd International Conference on. :691-696 Mar, 2016
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
Signal Processing and Analysis
Mathematical model
Algorithm design and analysis
Friction
Discharges (electric)
Complexity theory
Information technology
Water conservation
Nested breadth first search
Hardy-Cross Method
Simultaneous loop equation solution method
Darcy-Weisbach equation
- Language
In the proposed work, a new algorithm has been developed for automatic water pipe network analysis by simultaneous loop equation solution method. In the current work, water pipe network is constructed from the pipe and node data structures which is a graph having nodes as vertices and pipes as edges. Loops in network are extracted automatically by Nested Breadth First Search (NBFS) algorithm. Extracted loops are arranged in clockwise direction. The analysis of water distribution network has been performed by the simultaneous loop equation solution method. The analysis is based on the Darcy-Weisbach head loss equation in loops. Algorithm of automatic initialization of pipe discharge has been developed. Friction factor is calculated iteratively for better accuracy of result. The pressure drop in the pipe of the network is obtained by generalized Darcy-Weisbach equation. Finally, the balanced discharges in the pipes are compared with the Hardy Cross method. The result shows that the proposed method is more efficient than Hardy-Cross method for the complex network.