Imperial College London
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DrIvanStoianov

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Reader in Water Systems Engineering
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6035ivan.stoianov Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

 
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Location

 

408Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Waldron:2020:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001273,
author = {Waldron, A and Pecci, F and Stoianov, I},
doi = {10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001273},
journal = {Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management},
title = {Regularisation of an inverse problem for parameter estimation in water distribution networks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001273},
volume = {146},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - An accurate hydraulic model of a water distribution network (WDN) is a critical prerequisite for a multitude of operational, optimisation and planning tasks. The accuracy of a hydraulic model can only be maintained through its periodic calibration and validation with acquired pressure and flow data from a WDN. It is important that this process is robust and computationally efficient. This paper describes the regularisation of an inverse problem to deal with data uncertainties and ill-posedness of parameter estimation problems in WDNs. A novel data driven strategy is presented for tuning the regularisation hyper-parameter for the inverse problem and also for validating the results on an independent set of operational hydraulic data. A limited-memory quasi-Newton method (L-BFGS19 B) is implemented for solving the resulting regularised nonlinear inverse problem. Furthermore, the implemented method utilises either the Darcy-Weisbach or Hazen-Williams head loss formulae, and is investigated both with and without pipe grouping. An extensive experimental programmewas carried out to acquire unique hydraulic data from an operational WDN in order to investigate the robustness of the proposed parameter estimation method. The hydraulic model of the operational WDN and the acquired hydraulic data are provided as supplementary data to enable the comparisonof hydraulic model calibration methods with operational data and encourage reproducible research
AU  - Waldron,A
AU  - Pecci,F
AU  - Stoianov,I
DO  - 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001273
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0733-9496
TI  - Regularisation of an inverse problem for parameter estimation in water distribution networks
T2  - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001273
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79377
VL  - 146
ER  -
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