Organization of the Structure of Heterogeneous Input Data in Modeling Hydraulic Processes in Compressible and Incompressible Fluid Networks

Ensuring high accuracy of modeling hydraulic processes in compressible and incompressible fluid networks is assumed to be possible if process models are used in the structural elements that form the network. A wide variety of such elements characterizes hydraulic networks and, accordingly, process models within them, where each model is characterized by its parameters. Therefore, model-oriented input data may be different in meaning and volume, i.e., heterogeneous. For such heterogeneous information, it is proposed to structure it based on arrays of data on elements of branches and nodes based on the use of a fixed number of numbers equal to three, where, in the case of several parameters exceeding 3, references are made to the corresponding data sets presented in separate files or tables. It has been determined that this method allows for the modeling of hydraulic processes in the class of hydraulic networks, for which the program code implements the capabilities of modeling hydraulic processes in elements of branches, nodes, and processing of structural and operational information. In this context, it is universal, where, when using elements for which additional data is required to be obtained in the corresponding arrays (tables), they can be supplemented without changing the code of the software application, and the capabilities of the software can be expanded by adding new types of elements, which requires the inclusion of mathematical models of processes in them in the program code.