Convergence of a Hydraulic Solver with Pressure-Dependent Demands

Yu. Kovalenko (), N. Gorev, I. Kodzhespirova, E. Prokhorov and G. Trapaga

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2014, vol. 28, issue 4, 1013-1031

Abstract: This paper analyzes the convergence of a pressure-driven analysis (PDA) model of a water distribution network solver based on Todini’s global gradient algorithm. The PDA model is constructed by embedding a pressure−demand relationship in the EPANET simulator code. To avoid spurious convergence, a residual-based convergence error was used. The introduction of pressure-dependent demands is shown to result in a far poorer convergence. The study of solver convergence as a function of the smoothness of the pressure−demand curve has demonstrated that, statistically, a smooth pressure−demand relationship gives a somewhat better convergence. To improve convergence, use was made of a quadratic approximation of the Hazen–Williams head loss−flow relationship in the vicinity of zero and the correct implementation of the Darcy−Weisbach formula in the solver. To further improve convergence, an iteration step control technique called the line search was used. The analysis of solver convergence for different line search variants has shown that the line search in its usual form is not efficient enough and may result in poorer convergence. A necessary error decrease algorithm, whose use in the line search improves solver convergence, is proposed. It is shown that due to the convergence improvement methods the convergence of the PDA solver is somewhat better than that of the demand-driven analysis solver and sufficient for direct problems such as design, for example. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Water distribution; Global gradient algorithm; Pressure-driven analysis; Line search; Convergence; Zero flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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