@Article{cmes.2022.018867,
AUTHOR = {Aniket N. Sharma, Shilpa R. Dongre, Rajesh Gupta, Prerna Pandey, Neeraj Dhanraj Bokde},
TITLE = {Partitioning of Water Distribution Network into District Metered Areas Using Existing Valves},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {131},
YEAR = {2022},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {1515--1537},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v131n3/47401},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {Water distribution network (WDN) leakage management has received increased attention in recent years. One of
the most successful leakage-control strategies is to divide the network into District Metered Areas (DMAs). As a
multi-staged technique, the generation of DMAs is a difficult task in design and implementation (i.e., clustering,
sectorization, and performance evaluation). Previous studies on DMAs implementation did not consider the
potential use of existing valves in achieving the objective. In this work, a methodology is proposed for detecting
clusters and reducing the cost of additional valves and DMA sectorization by considering existing valves as much as
possible. The procedure of DMAs identification has been divided into three stages, i.e., a) clusters identification; b)
sectorization or boundaries optimization and c) performance evaluation of the partitioned network. The proposed
methodology is evaluated on a simple network and a real-world water network with the findings provided and
compared to the DMAs, established for a raw water network with no existing valves. It is found that there is an
adequate difference in cost of strategy implementation in both the cases for the network under consideration and
the existing valve system achieved better network performance in terms of resilience index.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmes.2022.018867}
}