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Old 04-25-2008, 04:14 PM
Chris Maeder Chris Maeder is offline
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Note that you need to make certain that you have a small enough time step to properly route the water. It the time step is too large, then the model will not capture the routing of flow through the network properly--especially if you have a small network.

Select Analysis | Analysis Options, and make certain that the Routing Time Step is small enough to capture the flow through the shortest pipe (or link) in the system. For example, perhaps based upon the maximum velocity and shortest pipe that the flow routes through this pipe in 5 seconds. Then, you would need to have a routing time step less than 5 seconds.

If you still have problems with your model, please let me know.
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