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| Original author(s) | Lewis A. Rossman |
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| Developer(s) | United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA, Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| Stable release | 2.2
/ July 23, 2020[1] |
| Written in | C Programming Language(engine) / Object Pascal(User Interface) |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Engineering Simulation |
| License | None (Public domain) |
| Website | www |
EPANET (Environmental Protection Agency Network Evaluation Tool) is a public domain, water distribution system modeling software package developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Water Supply and Water Resources Division. It performs extended-period simulation of hydraulic and water-quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks and is designed to be "a research tool that improves our understanding of the movement and fate of drinking-water constituents within distribution systems".[2] EPANET first appeared in 1993.[3]
EPANET 2 is available both as a standalone program and as an open-source toolkit (Application Programming Interface in C). Its computational engine is used by many software companies that developed more powerful, proprietary packages, often GIS-centric. The EPANET ".inp" input file format,[4] which represents network topology, water consumption, and control rules, is supported by many free and commercial modeling packages. Therefore, it is arguably considered as the industry standard.
- ^ "EPANET - Water Research - US EPA". epa.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- ^ Rossman, L. A., "Computer Models/EPANET" in L. Mays, ed., Water Distribution Systems Handbook, Chapter 12, McGraw-Hill companies, Inc., New York, NY, 1999.
- ^ Rossman, L. A., "the EPANET Water Quality Model" in B. Coulbeck, ed., Integrated Computer Applications in Water Supply, Vol. 2, Research Studies Press Ltd., Somerset, England, 1993.
- ^ Rossman, L. A., "EPANET 2 Users Manual", 2000