hi

you can use star ccm+. in this you can simulate elastic behavior of the pipe or rigid pipe. this solver is fast and accurate.

Stefan,

Water Hammer:

You can use one by "Bently Hammer" but it cannot see the elastic behavior of the pipe. If you want to model that you have to use FSI packages it general CFD software like ANSYS fluent. With Bently you can see a network but with ANSYS it is very hard to model a network propagation of shock. One other commercial package is "AFT Impulse". It is again consider rigid pipe. I do not know any free water hammer software with GUI and clean interface

General Water Pipe Modeling:

Your best bet is ICM infoworks but it is very expensive but it has many new features of Database such as embedded SVN and embedded GIS processor which is very nice to have.

Then XPSWMM which is a EPA SWMM warped in the nicer GUI by inovze company (I am not a big fan of that), there are other versions of EPA SWMM which became commercial like MIke SWMM by DHI.

Hope it helps

hi

you can use star ccm+. in this you can simulate elastic behavior of the pipe or rigid pipe. this solver is fast and accurate.

Maybe someone has used Allievi for a similar purpose?

www.allievi.net/allievi-es.php

Hi Stefan Ziemendorff

No, I did not use this app.

what is this opportunity?

Best Regards