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GHydraulicsintegratesEPANETandQGIS
GHydraulicsisaQuantumGISpluginthatallowstoanalyzewatersupplynetworksusingEPANET.Italso
containsafunctiontocalculateeconomicdiametersbasedongivenflowrates.Thefunctionsareaccessible
fromtheQuantumGISpluginmenuandtoolbars.

Installation
YoucanusetheQuantumGISPluginRepositorytoinstallGHydraulics.
LearnmoreonontheQuantumGISPluginRepositoryGHydraulicspage.
DetailedstepbystepinstallationinstructionsforQGIS1.8versionsareavailableinavideo:
Download
StartingwithQuantumGIS0.10.0theGHydraulicplugincanbeinstalleddirectlyfromQuantumGIS.

Sampledata
SampledataisavailableinGHydraulicsitself.SelectPlugins>GHydraulicProjectsandselectoneofthe
samples.
Inaddition:EExampledata(acollectionofshapefilesdescribingasimplehydraulicanalysismodel)isavailable
inZIPformat:ghydraulicssamples.zip
It'srecommendedtouseDarcyWeisbach(DW)andcubicmetersperday(CMD)intheEPANEThydraulics
optionswiththissampledata.

BugsandProblems
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PleasereportallproblemsintheGHydraulicsBugTracker.

Documentation
Blog
AseriesofGHydraulicsrelatedblogpostsexplainshowtousethesoftwarealongwiththecurrentstateof
development.

Requirements
GHydraulicsisaQGISpluginandassuchrequiresQuantumGIS(QGIS)inordertorun.GHydraulicsandQGIS
areplatformindependentandrunonWindows,MacOSXandLinux.

Economicdiametercalculation
The"Calculateeconomicdiameters"functionexpectsaRESULT_FLOfieldwiththeinput.Outputwillbewritten
totheDIAMETERfield.
RESULT_FLOvaluesareexpectedtobeflowratesinl/s.Theeconomicdiametersarenominaldiameters(DN)
inmm.
ThescriptwillworkfordiametersfromDN80toDN1000.
Adiameterof9999willbeusedtoindicatewheretheRESULT_FLOflowrateexceedstheeconomicflowrateof
DN1000.
economicdiameter.py

Ifyouwanttousethecommandlineinterfaceeconomicdiameter.pyonWindows:
c:\ProgramFiles\QuantumGIS\pythonneedstobeinthePYTHONPATH:
setPYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;c:\ProgramFiles\QuantumGIS\python
c:\ProgramFiles\QuantumGISneedstobeinthePATH:
PATH=%PATH%;c:\ProgramFiles\QuantumGIS
Thescripteconomicdiameter.pywillfilltheDIAMETERfieldwiththeeconomicdiameteraccordingtothe
RESULT_FLOfieldvalue.

Roadmap
Atsomepointinthefuture,GHydraulicsshouldfullyintegratetheEPANETengineintoQuantumGIS.TheDC
WaterDesignExtensionprovidessimilarEPANETintegrationforArcViewGIS3.*
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OpenSource
GHydraulicsisopensourcesoftware,writteninthePythonprogramminglanguage.Ifyou'reasoftware
developer,youmaywanttocheckouttheGHydraulicsGitRepositoryonSourceforge:

License
Thesoftwareisavailableforfree(opensource)underthetermsoftheGPL.

History
April4,2014:GHydraulics2.1.8releasedwithseveralbugfixesforEPANETsimulationrunsandQGIS2.2
support.
March19,2014:GHydraulics2.1.7fixesEPANETsimulationrunonsomeplatforms.
January12,2014:GHydraulics2.1.6providesanewfunctiontorunEPANETsimulations,reintegratesthe
economicdiametercalculation,makessomefunctionsusetheUndohistoryandfixesallknownbugs.
October27,2013:GHydraulics2.1.4INPfixesanINPwritingbug.
September9,2013:GHydraulics2.1.3supportsQGIS2.0andprojectreprojection.
August11,2013:GHydraulics2.1.2addspipelengthcalculationviaUTMreprojection(ifnecessary),
robustnessandusabilityimprovements,optionalbackdropmapsupportand"NewProject"and"SampleDarcy
Weisbach,metric"menuitems.
July29,2013:GHydraulics2.1.1addsnewoptiontocalculatepipelength,bugfixes.
March29,2013:GHydraulics2.1.0addschecksandfixesforduplicateids,missingjunctionsandmultipart
shapes.
February23,2013:GHydraulics2.0.9fixedvalvewritingbug,startedwith"CheckModel".
January20,2013:GHydraulics2.0.8adds"MakeEPANETmodel"function,fillsNODE1andNODE2ofLine
tables.
June13,2012:GHydraulics2.06writesallnetworkelements,fixesbugsandprovidesanupdatedpackage.
January20,2012:GHydraulics2.0.4allowstowriteEPANETINPfileswithjunctionsfromQGIS.
April11,2010:GHydraulics2.0.2fixesproblemswithQTversions>3.
January29,2009:GHydraulics2.0.1addssupportfortheQuantumGIS1.0API.

GHydraulic0.x
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GHydraulic0.xisasimplehydraulicanalysisenginethathasbecomeobsoletewiththeavailabilityofEPANET.
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