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Robust optimal sizing of water distribution networks facing intermittent demands
1 : Kedge Business School
Management School, University of Bordeaux, France and KEDGE Business School, Talence, France
2 : ORDECSYS
This paper discusses the design of a tree-shaped water distribution system for small, dispersed rural communities. It revisits the topic that was discussed in [Babonneau et al. 2019] and is nowadays implemented in the field. It proposes a new approach to sizing by robust optimization to account for the uncertainty inherent in intermittent demands. It proposes a fast method of calculating stationary flows to test the performance of the networks thus designed by Monte-Carlo simulation.
