Calibrating hydraulic network models: To a novice, careful calibration of a hydraulic network model may be as daunting a task as climbing Mt. Everest

Journal / American Water Works Association

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 42-50

  Ormsbee, Lindell E ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Lingireddy, Srinivasa ^b  

^a Kentucky Water Rsrc Res Institu   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c AWWA Computer Conference   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CALIBRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RELIABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HYDRAULIC NETWORK MODEL; MICROLEVEL CALIBRATION;

HYDRAULICS;

EID: 0031076229     PISSN: 0003150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1997.tb08177.x     Document Type: Article

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