Gondwana a generic optimization tool for drinking water distribution sysytems design and operation

“Optimization of drinking water distribution systems has received considerable attention in the past decades, with an increasing use of supporting numerical methods. These have either remained in the academic domain, or found applications in practice for a limited number of specific optimization objectives.
With the aim of supporting the Dutch drinking water companies in optimizing their network design, management and operation, we have developed the generic software platform Gondwana for the optimization of drinking water distribution networks. It targets a broad spectrum of single and multiobjective problems in the topics of design, network blueprints, water quality, (virtual) DMA design and location of water quality sensors, among several others. The platform aims to bring optimization techniques within reach of non-specialists with knowledge of the practical problem at hand and also provide expert users with flexibility and freedom.
In this contribution, we present Gondwana and demonstrate its performance on well-known benchmark problems.”

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(Citaat: van Thienen, P., Vertommen, I. – Gondwana a generic optimization tool for drinking water distribution sysytems design and operation – Procedia Engineering 119(2015), p.1212-1220 – DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.978 – (Open Access))