Professionals involved in the water supply industry more often than not, and with
considerable justification, view hydraulic transients in a negative way, seeing
these sometimes large pressure waves as potential threats to the safety and
integrity of their systems. In the near future, however, waterworks engineers,
planners and managers may overcome their aversion to water hammer phenomena
because transients have the potential to provide a great deal of information
about the state of water systems. By measuring safely induced or naturally
occurring high-frequency pressure events, transients offer the possibility of
inexpensive data collection with a wide coverage of the system. Water demands,
leakage, pipe condition (roughness), closed or partially closed valves, even
pockets of trapped air can, in theory, all be detected using recorded pressure
data. This paper discusses the methodology and potential for application of
inverse transient models for information collection in water supply, transmission
and distribution systems. Includes 13 references, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| Number of Pages : | 12 |
| Published : | 01/01/1999 |
