How Accurate Is A Hydraulic Model?
Citation:
Hachett, S., D. Boccelli, J. Uber, T. M. Haxton, R. J. Janke, A. Kramer, A. Matracia, AND S. Panguluri. How Accurate Is A Hydraulic Model? In Proceedings, Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA) Conference-American Society of Civil Engineers , Tucson, AZ, September 12 - 15, 2010. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, VA, 1379-1389, (2010).
Impact/Purpose:
Network hydraulic models are widely used, but their overall accuracy is often unknown. Models are developed to give utilities better insight into system hydraulic behavior, and increasingly the ability to predict the fate and transport of chemicals. Without an accessible and consistent means of validating a given model against the system it is meant to represent, the value of those supposed benefits should be questioned. Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) databases, though ubiquitous, are underused data sources for this type of task. Integrating a network model with a measurement database would offer professionals the ability to assess the model’s assumptions in an automated fashion by leveraging enormous amounts of data.
Description:
Symposium paper
