Clustering analysis of water distribution systems: identifying critical components and community impacts

Diao, Kegong and Farmani, Raziyeh and Fu, Guangtao and Astaraie-Imani, Maryam and Ward, Sarah and Butler, David (2014) Clustering analysis of water distribution systems: identifying critical components and community impacts. Water Science & Technology, 70 (11). pp. 1764-1773. ISSN 1996-9732

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Abstract

Large water distribution systems (WDSs) are networks with both topological and behavioural complexity. Thereby, it is usually difficult to identify the key features of the properties of the system, and subsequently all the critical components within the system for a given purpose of design or control. One way is, however, to more explicitly visualize the network structure and interactions between components by dividing a WDS into a number of clusters (subsystems). Accordingly, this paper introduces a clustering strategy that decomposes WDSs into clusters with stronger internal connections than external connections. The detected cluster layout is very similar to the community structure of the served urban area. As WDSs may expand along with urban development in a community-by-community manner, the correspondingly formed distribution clusters may reveal some crucial configurations of WDSs. For verification, the method is applied to identify all the critical links during firefighting for the vulnerability analysis of a real-world WDS. Moreover, both the most critical pipes and clusters are addressed, given the consequences of pipe failure. Compared with the enumeration method, the method used in this study identifies the same group of the most critical components, and provides similar criticality prioritizations of them in a more computationally efficient time.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	Clustering analysis, water distribution, vulnerability
Faculty:	ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)
Depositing User:	Dr Maryam Imani
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2017 14:18
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2019 16:13
URI:	http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/702366

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