Análise de dispersão: EPANET x MDIR

Abstract

As a research problem, it was searched to develop a quality analysis simulation, taking into account the effect of inertia in the EPANET software, that its main advantage is to be open source and be widely used in scientific papers. Despite these and many other positive aspects of the EPANET, the same doesn’t use in its calculations the effect of inertia. As methodology, were purchased the source code files of the EPANET software, conducted the analysis of software engineering, developed the algorithms necessary for the dispersion analysis wear calculations generated by the implemented method (IRDM, which takes into account the inertia) and discarding the native method in the software. It is simulated the IRDM in the hydraulic network as the model hydraulic calculations take into account the inertia and monitoring of load and flow in the hydraulic systems is necessary to detect the supply levels and pressure surges that can cause disruptions in the pipeline. With the introduction of the dispersion analysis taking into consideration the inertia in EPANET software it was optimized the EPANET calculation engine using algorithms that consider the effects of inertia. It is concluded that to study the quality of the water, the implemented calculations present as a substantial solution to a more realistic analysis of network behavior during a dispersion process of a component.