Generalized ROW-type methods for simulating water supply networks

In order to supply drinking water efficiently, aspects such as saving energy and resources become more and more relevant besides the task of ensuring water quality. In this context, simulating water supply networks is of increasing importance as it helps water suppliers to estimate and improve effectiveness of their facilities with respect to economy and ecology. However, modeling and computing meaningful water supply systems is demanding. It requires to take into account processes for procurement and preparation of water within water works as well as its subsequent distribution in large networks. As a consequence, resulting mathematical systems prove to be correspondingly complicated and thus require research in efficient and robust numerical methods.