Lenguaje de programación (Python) y software de diseño (EPANET) para la modelación y simulación de redes de distribución de agua potable.

Abstract

The purpose of this research work is the implementation of Python and Epanet software in order to optimize the simulation and modeling time of a drinking water distribution network. For this purpose an analysis of different factors that were significant at the time of the simulation was carried out, establishing solutions that allowed to improve the calculation times and also to obtain important results such as nodes with negative pressures, velocities in the pipes, behaviour of the consumption curve in an extended period, among other hydraulic properties of the network. This was done by learning the programming language Python, in order to make its interface linking it through algorithms with Epanet, consequently, the results were improved that this offers us because the simulation software is par excellence a program that provides an integrated environment, however at present can not fully meet the new needs in the conduct of hydraulic simulations, this can be improved with the use of programming languages reducing the degree of uncertainty achieving an optimal design with significant reductions in design time and analysis of results.