TY  - SER
AU  - Rahman,Aminur
AU  - Fujiwara,Okitsugu
AU  - Clarke Harry R.
AU  - Orth,Hermann M.
ED  - The Royal Belgium Government, 
TI  - Optimization of looped water distribution system
T2  - Research studies project report
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Water
KW  - Distribution
KW  - Mathematical models
N1  - A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology; Research Studies Project Report (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1984
N2  - The problem of selecting the economically optimal pipe  diameters in a looped water distribution system is formulated as a linear programming by Lai and Schaake (9) for a given set of node heads.  Later Quindry et al.. (10) proposed a method that a given set of node heads can be modified to obtain an improved cost by determining the direction in which the node heads should be modified.  The present study improves and clarifies this idea by  suggesting a systematic way of selecting stepsize in the descent  direction and. stopping criterion for the iterative  process of  modifying the node beads and thus always guarantees a local  optimal solution. The algorithm is tested on two test problems  and considerable improvement to initial solution is achieved
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