Animated Pipe Profiling

This feature shows animations of tanks and reservoir levels, pump speeds and water flow rate or velocity. The user specifies the first and last nodes of the desired profile within the model Map View, and the animation is created automatically.

The current head or pressure line is shown, along with a head/pressure envelope: pressure display options include showing areas of cavitation within the appropriate pipes. Many surge devices such as air valves and bladder tanks are also animated in detail.

The user can set the animation speed, and the animation can be stopped and started, allowing the user to view and analyze the model’s transient activity at any point in the simulation. The animation’s time or case is also displayed.  Animations can be saved as AVI files, Animated GIFs, or MP4 files, among other formats. The animation below is represenatative of the feature, but the quality is low due to downscaling for webpage presentation: the actual image quality is much higher.