Quantified assessment of the relationship between the reliability and entropy of water distribution systems

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-199

  Tanyimboh, Tiku T ^a   Templeman, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; COSTS; ENTROPY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PIPE FLOW; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENTROPY-CONSTRAINED METHOD;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034458974     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150008940916     Document Type: Article

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