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https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-10-93-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-10-93-2017
Research article
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10 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 10 Oct 2017

Limitations of demand- and pressure-driven modeling for large deficient networks

Mathias Braun, Olivier Piller, Jochen Deuerlein, and Iraj Mortazavi

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The article introduces a stable formulation of the model for water distribution systems that guarantees the existence of a unique solution. This is done regarding two modeling paradigms. First for models with customer demand as a fixed boundary condition and second for models that add a boundary condition on the minimum network pressure. The following discussion concludes that pressure-driven models are superior in modeling deficient networks, but still have to be improved.