The epanet open source initiative

Elad Salomons, Sam Hatchett, Demetrios G. Eliades

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Abstract

The EPANET desktop application, along with its library and source-code, have played invaluable roles in research, management and business of water distribution systems, for more than 20 years. The visionary role of the US EPA in developing EPANET and placing the program and source code in the public domain, is widely acknowledged within the water research community. The work reported here summarizes the progress and the results in setting up the organizational framework for the software as an Open Source Project. Since the project announcement progress was made in several domains: 1) bugs were reported and fixed by the EPANET open-source community 2) new functions were added to allow developers to retrieve and modify simulation and network data 3) efficiency issues were addressed 4) the foundation for the project's documentation were established 5) compilation routine for different platform were added and 6) prototype testing routines were developed.

Original languageEnglish
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Joint Conference in Water Distribution Systems Analysis and Computing and Control in the Water Industry, WDSA/CCWI 2018 - Kingston, Canada
Duration: 23 Jul 201825 Jul 2018

Conference

Conference1st International Joint Conference in Water Distribution Systems Analysis and Computing and Control in the Water Industry, WDSA/CCWI 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityKingston
Period23/07/1825/07/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 1st International WDSA / CCWI 2018 Joint Conference. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • EPANET
  • Open Source
  • Simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Water Science and Technology

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