Causeway Flow
Commercial
Storm and foul water drainage design and 1D hydraulic modelling software for UK and Irish civil engineers.
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Pipe Network Analysis Tools
Whether gravity sewers or pressurised mains, network hydraulics is graph mathematics plus friction losses. The list covers EPANET and the Python, MATLAB, QGIS and browser tools built on it, plus commercial suites for distribution, sewer and transient analysis.
EPANET
Gov-PublicVerified
The public-domain standard for water distribution modelling — hydraulics and water quality in pressurised networks.
EPANET-MATLAB Toolkit
Open Source
Full MATLAB control of the EPANET engine — the standard bridge for control and optimisation research.
InfoWater Pro
Commercial
Autodesk's ArcGIS Pro-native distribution modelling — for utilities whose network data lives in Esri.
LocalSWMM
Open Source
Browser-based urban stormwater and drainage modeling powered by OpenSWMM 6 compiled to WebAssembly.
OpenFlows HAMMER
Commercial
Bentley's transient analysis package — the commercial standard for surge studies on pumping mains.
OpenFlows SewerGEMS
Commercial
Bentley's sanitary and combined sewer modelling suite, integrated with CAD and GIS environments.
OpenFlows WaterGEMS
Commercial
Bentley's flagship distribution suite — design, optimisation and criticality on EPANET-compatible hydraulics.
QGISRed
Open Source
A QGIS plugin that turns the free GIS into a water-network modelling environment for EPANET.
WNTR
Open SourceVerified
Sandia/EPA's Python toolkit for water network resilience — EPANET simulation plus disaster scenarios and metrics.
epanet-js
Freemium
EPANET in the browser — build, import and run distribution models on a map with zero installation.