EPANET
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The public-domain standard for water distribution modelling — hydraulics and water quality in pressurised networks.
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EPANET-MATLAB Toolkit
ActiveFull MATLAB control of the EPANET engine — the standard bridge for control and optimisation research.
by KIOS Research Center
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- EUPL-1.2
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- MATLAB, EPANET
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
About EPANET-MATLAB Toolkit
The EPANET-MATLAB Toolkit, maintained by the KIOS Research Center (University of Cyprus), exposes essentially the entire EPANET (and EPANET-MSX) API inside MATLAB: build and edit networks, run hydraulic and quality simulations step by step, and drive optimisation or fault-diagnosis experiments around the engine.
A large share of the academic literature on leakage detection, sensor placement and network control was produced with this toolkit. If your research group lives in MATLAB/Simulink, it is the established path into EPANET; if you are choosing fresh, WNTR offers similar reach in Python.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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