Revista de Ingeniería

revinge | eISSN 2011-0049 | ISSN 0121-4993

Algoritmos de Optimización Combinatoria (AOC) aplicados al diseño de redes de distribución de agua potable

No. 22 (2005-11-01)
  • Germán Villalba Fernández de Castro
    1Investigador, Centro de Investigaciones en Acueductos y Alcantarillados – CIACUA, Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Universidad de los Andes.
  • Juan Guillermo Saldarriaga
    2Director Centro de Investigaciones en Acueductos y Alcantarillados – CIACUA, Profesor Titular, Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Universidad de los Andes.
https://doi.org/10.16924/revinge.22.14

Abstract

The ACO are methodologies to find an approximation to least cost design of water distribution network. REDES and EPANET are used for hydraulic simulation and well known problems are solved finding solutions of less cost satisfying pressure constraints. This methodology is computationally much faster when compared with other algorithms used previously to solve this problem and good solution can be found. Furthermore is possible to optimize known solutions to find better solutions. The Hanoi network problem is tested and better solutions were found than those published previously in the literature.

Keywords: Design, water distribution network, hydroinformatic