Title: GA-NR for optimal design of water distribution networks

Authors: Krishna Pratap Singh; M.L. Kansal; Kusum Deep

Addresses: Division of Applied Science and IRCB, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahbad-211012, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India ' Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract: Optimal design of water distribution networks is the most important and challenging issue in the 21st century. Evolutionary algorithms are evolved as efficient approach to optimise such problems. In this paper, a real coded genetic algorithm, MILXPM, is hybridised with Newton-Raphson method for the optimal design of water distribution networks. Proposed MILXPM-NR is tested on three different test problems. Results show that it is an efficient and reliable algorithm for optimal design of water distribution networks.

Keywords: water distribution networks; WDNs; genetic algorithms; network design; optimal design; Newton-Raphson method.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2014.062455

International Journal of Operational Research, 2014 Vol.20 No.3, pp.241 - 261

Received: 09 Jun 2012
Accepted: 24 Nov 2012
Published online: 21 Jun 2014 *

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