Abstract:
Water distribution networks are one of the most important infrastructures in urban areas. As design and management of these networks include many components and issues, there are a variety of methods and models that could be considered as design and operating tools. These methods should be capable of considering the complexity and nonlinearities in simulation and optimization of water distribution networks. Among optimization methods, GA algorithms are widely applied in the optimization of water distribution networks because of their flexibility. However recently a new evolutionary algorithm has been emerged called Scatter Search (SS). The application of this model in different scientific fields has shown the high ability of this method. The greatest advantage of the SS method over GA is its higher speed in achieving the optimal solution. In this paper the application of GA and SS to water distribution networks are evaluated.
