Don Wood's blog

The use of meters to handle demands for water utilities was discussed in my last blog. The recommended approach is to use our meter connection element to represent the large users. Residential customers which normally use around 80% or more of the total demand are handled by identifying the number of residential connections for appropriate pipes and defining an average demand for each connection.

One of the most daunting tasks associated with modeling water utilities is handling the demand distribution for the water utility. It is necessary to develop a baseline model where an average demand for all users is allocated to appropriate junction nodes in the model. The modeler may choose to use an average monthly, yearly or some other representative average.

We really enjoy developing features and working with our many users of our transient flow (waterhammer) software. Take a look at the new animated profile display coming with Surge2010. This tool will make your presentations very impressive.  Our success and dedication to providing the best possible transient flow modeling tool out there does attract attention from our competitors.

Over the past 35 years we have had many, many excellent interactions with our users and potential users and they have stimulated us to develop many special capabilities. Here are a few examples:

Here is my first blog ever. My associates tell me I have to get into the 21st century so here goes.

We are creating lots of new and exciting developments in pipe system modeling.  We keep getting useful suggestions from users and the very close association we have with our users through our technical support activities constantly lead us to new developments and improved modeling capabilities. For example over the last several years we have added the following capabilities.