In the US regulatory climate of renewed focus on
water quality in the distribution system, the role of modeling
has become increasingly important. The authors
review the current state of model calibration guidelines
in the United States and compare US practices with
calibration and model development in the United Kingdom.
This research also provides for the first time statistical
calibration accuracies for several extended period
simulation (EPS) water distribution models. Seven case
models were developed and calibrated using only trial-and-
error methods (iterative calibration).
The authors demonstrate what is required to
achieve a calibrated water distribution system
model and provide a benchmark for calibration
accuracies for models used in long-term planning.
Utilities can use this information as a guide to evaluate
calibration accuracies of their own models.
The benefit of improved calibration accuracies
must be weighed against the costs of obtaining
additional and more-precise field data and the
expense of efforts to improve model calibration
accuracies. Includes 8 references, tables, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. 98 - No. 11 |
| File Size : | 1
file
, 540 KB |
| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 12 |
| Published : | 11/01/2006 |
