Software Used for the Design and Computation of Hydraulic Water Supply Networks: Overview

Abstract

Przegląd programów wykorzystywanych do projektowania i obliczeń hydraulicznych sieci wodociągowychThe aim of this paper is to present the potential of computer software for designing and computation of hydraulic water supply systems. The paper presents applications available in the Polish market, such as: Stanet, Woda, Wodociągowiec, Wavin-NET and Epanet. The paper presents the functionalities of each application: the method of construction of the water supply network, limitations to the size of the network, options of inputting such data as e.g. water distributions and the type of generated output data. It was shown which applications allow for hydraulic calculations of both radial and annular networks, and which can be used only for radial networks. Attention was also drawn to the option of automatic generation of longitudinal profiles of designed networks.