Comparative Analysis of the Efficiency of Methods for Optimizing the Flow Distribution in Water Supply Systems with a Large Number of Active Sources

Optimization of the water flow distribution is an important problem in the field of the operative control over technological processes in water supply systems. In this article we describe the comparative analysis results showing the efficiency of various methods used to optimize flow distribution in water supply systems with a large number of active sources. The research has shown that the Hooke and Jeeves method of the direct search is the most efficient in terms of the cost of computer time and the amount of used memory.