Clustering for Analysis of Water Distribution Systems
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 144, Issue 5
Abstract
Simplification methodologies for complex water distribution systems (WDS) are essential for better understanding water distribution system behavior. Such methodologies have substantially improved the management and operation of water distribution systems. WDS are complex structures that may consist of thousands to tens of thousands of elements, which makes their optimal management and operation a very large-scale and complex problem. With the objective of improving the network properties, this work uses mathematical methods drawn from graph theory to represent the water distribution system as a directed graph mimicking the original WDS topology and hydraulic properties. The digraph representation uses graph theory algorithms to identify the unique behaviors on the basis of cluster analysis that distinguishes the specific understandings of WDS. The simulation was performed on two case studies, showing results that were very similar to the results that were predicted theoretically.
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Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), by the Technion Funds for Security Research, by the joint Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), and by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), under Project No. 02WA1298.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 144 • Issue 5 • May 2018
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Received: May 22, 2017
Accepted: Oct 4, 2017
Published online: Feb 22, 2018
Published in print: May 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Jul 22, 2018
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