Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks

"Design of Water Distribution Network" 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 covers: essential hydraulic, economic optimization principles; theory is developed gradually for optimal design of simple, single-source branched networked subjected to single loading to complex, multiple-source looped net works subjected to multiple loading; strengthening and expansion of existing networks and also reliability-based design; and, several illustrative examples enabling the reader to apply them in practice approximately 100 line drawing.