Autodesk Learning: InfoWorks WS Pro - Foundational
Learn how InfoWorks WS Pro helps you efficiently conduct master plans, design networks (pipes, pumps, tanks), accurately simulate operations (pump/valve control, flushing, water quality, emergency response, leak identification), and conveniently assess network resilience (criticality analysis for both pipes and valves).
Description
With InfoWorks WS Pro, hydraulic modelers can efficiently design networks (pipes, pumps, tanks), accurately simulate operations (pump/valve control, flushing, water quality, emergency response, leak identification), and conveniently assess network resilience (criticality analysis for both pipes and valves).
This dynamic tool allows multiple teams to collaborate on the same modeling projects simultaneously using a proprietary engine that is suited for any model type and size. Modelers can keep track of changes, and reverse changes as necessary, to improve overall efficiency.
With GIS and telemetry connections, modeling teams can trust InfoWorks WS Pro results will represent the real water system and be able to understand system behavior to improve infrastructure decision making. These decision improvements will be observed across a wide range of water projects, from planning and design to operations and maintenance.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Build a hydraulic model in InfoWorks WS Pro that represents a real water system.
- Develop what-if scenarios to test a wide range of water system alternatives.
- Set up steady-state and extended-period simulation runs and review results.
- Perform a wide range of network assessments including fire flow analysis, demand area analysis, transient analysis, and critical link analysis.
Course Outline
Course modules
Hydraulic theory for water distribution
An introduction to InfoWorks WS Pro—a collaborative tool for modeling and analyzing water distribution systems. Get to know the product interface and flexible database system and brush up on the hydraulic theories behind its powerful calculations.
~50 min.
Getting started with InfoWorks WS Pro
Course Module
Learn how InfoWorks WS Pro stores and orders data in a database. Also discover how objects are grouped, and the importance of the network, control, demand diagram, run group, and more.
~48 min.
Modifying InfoWorks WS Pro models
The version-control systems within WS Pro allow for a multi-user environment that tracks users’ model edits, as well as a full revision history.
~52 min.
Modeling scenarios in InfoWorks WS Pro
Learn to use scenarios to model variations of a network. Scenarios allow users to plan and run “what-if” analyses and possible future design iterations for a model.
~1 hr.
Working with demand on water networks
InfoWorks WS Pro accounts for the demand on water networks, which can vary over time. Learn how to calculate the water that is required by users, and how demand impacts the network both positively or negatively at a given point and time.
~48 min.
Backgrounds and themes in the InfoWorks WS Pro GeoPlan
Work with the GeoPlan in WS Pro to show a geographical representation of a water supply network over a background layer. Maps, raster images, aerial photographs, digital elevation maps, and other additional geographical data can enhance model visualization.
~48 min.
Water quality modelling in InfoWorks WS Pro
InfoWorks WS Pro accounts for the demand on water networks, which can vary over time. Learn how to calculate the water that is required by users, and how demand impacts the network both positively or negatively at a given point and time.
~35 min.
Importing and exporting data for water networks
When using InfoWorks WS Pro, a great number of objects can be updated simultaneously using the Open Data Import Centre, which contains many ways to control data imports.
~20 min.
Drain down and recharge of a water network
Course ModuleInfoWorks WS Pro allows you to simulate the drain down and recharge of the water network, which occurs when the network is no longer fully pressurized.
~12 min.
Working with live data in InfoWorks WS Pro
Learn how InfoWorks WS Pro can link to many different types of live databases. Live data connections can range in complexity from using relatively simple CSV data to more complicated remote servers. This curated list is intended to be worked through in sequential order due to the nature of using live data in InfoWorks WS Pro.
~48 min.
Modelling pumping stations in InfoWorks WS Pro
Model pumps and pumping stations in InfoWorks WS Pro. Pumps are widely used in water supply systems for the collection and transport of water from wells, the distribution of clean water, and to boost pressure in the network.
~15 min.
Performing fire flow analysis in InfoWorks WS Pro
In InfoWorks WS Pro, users can simulate fire flow availability, hydrant testing, and forced fire flow. Fire flow analyses are an integral part of water supply modelling to ensure that adequate flow and pressure is available for firefighting compliance, and to ensure hydrants can supply enough water and pressure during emergencies.
~20 min.
Cleaning water networks using flushing simulations
Flushing Simulations in InfoWorks WS Pro allow users to model the effects of flushes to clean a network. Users can evaluate the effectiveness of flushing actions to limit the amount of water used in flushing, as well as calculate and check action timings in the flushing schedule.
~20 min.
Performing demand area analysis in InfoWorks WS Pro
Modeling the spatial and temporal characteristics of demand for water is critical when representing water supply systems. This functionality in InfoWorks WS Pro helps users determine the unprofiled demand that would otherwise be carried out as a separate task prior to modeling the water supply system.
~50 min.
Performing transient analysis in InfoWorks WS Pro
Learn how pressure fluctuations can cause hydraulic transients—also known as water hammer or surge—and how to implement optimal methods to alleviate them.
~23 min.
Visualization using Generalized Multi-Run simulations
In InfoWorks WS Pro, a generalized multi-run, or GMR, creates a simulation that runs multiple test cases. Using GMR allows you to visualize a great number of simulation possibilities.
~40 min.
Running critical link analysis and shutdown simulations
InfoWorks WS Pro’s critical link analysis, or CLA, run type allows for automated testing and reporting of the effects of failure on a selection of links. Learn how to define and run CLA simulations to determine the time of outage and method of failure.
~15 min.
Automatic calibration simulations for InfoWorks WS Pro mains models
InfoWorks WS Pro provides an automatic calibration facility to help speed up work on models where friction factors have a predominant role in calibrating real-life networks. It is especially well-suited for all-mains models.
~15 min.
Multi Solute Water Quality simulations for complex reactions
The Multi Solute Water Quality (MSQ) function in InfoWorks WS Pro allows users to model complex reactions between multiple chemical and biological species. MSQ provides the ability to model several interacting chemicals in the water system.
~15 min.
Structured Query Language in InfoWorks WS Pro
For faster data management, WS Pro offers Structured Query Language (SQL) tools for data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control.
~22 min.
User Programmable Controls (UPC) Scripts in InfoWorks WS Pro
Learn how to leverage UPC scripts to control regulator elements based on information from sensors elsewhere in the network.
~11 min.
Specialized Simulations in InfoWorks WS Pro
There are several specialized simulations that can be performed in InfoWorks WS Pro that yield specific data, including System Head Curves, Pressure Related Demand, Sustainability, Disconnected Systems, and Price of Water Analysis. Learning to configure these simulations properly helps to generate accurate data results.
~23 min.