Vol. 3 No. 01 (2022)
Articles

Review of Water Network Analysis and Validation of SCALER Hydraulic Simulator

Henrique da Silva Pizzo
College of Civil Engineering, Estácio University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil/ Department of Hydraulic Measurements, Municipal Water and Sewage Company of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Bio
João Paulo de Carvalho Ignácio
College of Civil Engineering, Estácio University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil / Department of Software Development, Inspell Softwares, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Marcus Vinicius do Nascimento
College of Civil Engineering, Estácio University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Published 2021-12-25

Keywords

  • Hydraulic Distribution Networks,
  • Systems Modeling,
  • Water Supply,
  • Software Validation

How to Cite

[1]
H. da Silva Pizzo, J. P. de Carvalho Ignácio, and M. V. . do Nascimento, “Review of Water Network Analysis and Validation of SCALER Hydraulic Simulator”, JoCEF, vol. 3, no. 01, pp. 01-11, Dec. 2021.

Abstract

The article intends to present the validation stage of a software to model and simulate hydraulic networks for water distribution, the SCALER, through its application to a real system, with many branches, with a model previously developed and verified using the EPANET software. SCALER was developed in 2020 and 2021 and, until then, had only been applied to networks with a relatively small number of branches. After discussing topics related to hydraulic modeling of distribution networks, techniques and applications, a brief review of the fundamentals of SCALER is carried out, passing on to its application to the case at hand, which is the Vila Joaniza community, in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Data from image, scheme and table are used to assist in the description of the local situation and respective distribution network, with the objective of assessing whether the nodal pressures obtained by SCALER are sufficiently similar to those obtained by EPANET, in order to ensure the proper functioning of the software. After this step, and the calculations have been made by the program, an operation screen, the generated graph of the local situation and a table with the comparison of absolute and percentage deviations between the nodal pressures resulting from the SCALER and those obtained with the EPANET are inserted, confirming that the deviation values are quite small, which validates SCALER as a software also applicable to networks with many branches.

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