Generating scenarios of cross-correlated demands for modelling water distribution networks
A numerical approach for generating a limited number of water demand scenarios and estimating their occurrence probabilities in a water distribution network (WDN) is proposed. This approach makes use of the demand scaling laws in order to consider the natural variability and spatial correlation of nodal consumption. The scaling laws are employed to determine the statistics of nodal consumption as a function of the number of users and the main statistical features of the unitary user's demand. Besides, consumption at each node is considered to follow a Gamma probability distribution.