“…This approach is based on assuming an inelastic penstock wall and incompressible water flow. Rigid water models are the most used in specialized literature in cases in which water hammer effect is neglected, as seen in (Ramey & Skooglund, 1970), (Luqing, et al, 1989), (Herron & Wozniak, 1991), (Malik , et al, 1991), (Kundur, 1994) or (Jones & Mansoor, 2004) among others.…”