Online course Advanced Water Transport and Distribution

• Introduction to WTD: This section of the course focuses on distinguishing the main definitions and objectives of water transport and distribution systems.

• Geographic Information Systems: The students are introduced to GIS tools for pre- and post-processing of data when building numerical models and analyzing results output from simulations.

• Hydraulic modelling (I): advanced techniques to boost the applicability of hydraulic models by means of artificial intelligence techniques such as genetic algorithms are taught in this part of the course.

• Hydraulic modelling (II): In this part of the course students are introduced to WaterGems (Bentley) software, offering a range of add-ons to the basic computational hydraulics, such as automatic calibration, that enables bridging theory with practice in complex water distribution networks.

• Water-hammer theory: the physical phenomena of water-hammer wave will be explained, including the governing equations and the numerical methods for their solution. Critical thinking for post-accident analysis and surge protection is developed.

• Python tools for hydraulics: In this part of the course students get hands on Python, enabling them to make use of friendly applications for their WTD analyses.