Running a steady state simulation

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Once you have set up your hydraulic model,

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you can run a steady state simulation and review the hydraulic status report.

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The run manager is used as the entry point

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for modifying the options in settings for a simulation

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running and troubleshooting a simulation

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and managing the output sources

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to begin.

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Double click the desired project dot APR X file to open

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Agis Pro.

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Once the project starts,

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click the info water pro tab to open the info water pro ribbon

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in the project panel, click initialize

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in the model explorer operation tab expand simulation report

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and then double click base base simulation report.

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The simulation report allows you to create and customize the simulation,

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run text report

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in the simulation report dialog box select full for the hydraulic status

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so that the status report will also include

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information from each trial of each hydraulic analysis.

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Also enable the generate network summary table

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to create the report and generate warning messages

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options so that you can see any error

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or warning messages that occur during a simulation

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click. OK.

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Switch to the attribute tab in the model explorer

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enable refresh output to automatically refresh

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your output data after every simulation run

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next open the run manager

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in the standard tab set the report options to base base simulation

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report to set the scope and content of the simulation report.

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The simulation options determine the simulation parameters

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for this exercise. Keep this set to base base simulation option

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for the time setting.

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Choose ss steady state analysis,

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which is a time step that has already been configured for this simulation.

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Then click run to run the simulation.

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Notice the stoplight icon,

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the green light indicates a successful simulation.

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If this were yellow,

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then it would have meant that the simulation received only partial results.

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Then you would need to fix any warnings that appear in the log report.

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Red would indicate a failed simulation

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and gray would indicate that the simulation did not produce any output

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results are available for any simulation that finishes with a green or yellow light

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to open the text report in the toolbar, click report,

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an html file opens in your web browser,

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look through the report to see the analysis results of your simulation.

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You can find answers to specific questions such as how many pipes are in the model.

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In this case, there are 847

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scroll down to see that it took 11 trials for the model to balance.

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And below that,

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you can see the system totals for supply demand and storage.

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The total system demand is 593.59 gallons per minute.

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If the supply reads as zero as it does here,

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you can determine where the water came from.

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In this example, it was coming from one of the tanks. T 5004, which was emptying

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when you are finished, you can close the text report and click ok,

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to exit the run manager.