From what I've read it's adviced to enter average day demands as your base demands and to peak those demands using peaking factors when necessary. To model my low and high flow conditions in my steady state model i've simply created a highflow scenario and ea low flow scenario using alternatives. However is it possible to temporarily adjust my base demands using peaking factors in WaterCAD? So say for example i have as base demand in a particular area a demand of 1.2m3/ hour at all the customer meter elements and at the other area 0.9m3/ hour at all the customer meter elements. But i know that during peak flow conditions the demands in these areas are 2.4m3/ hour and 2.7m3/ hour respectfully. Is there i way for me to adjust those demands using peaking factors of 2 and 3 respectfully without having to create knew scenarios?
Hello Christen,
You have a couple of options. First, you can open the Demand Control Center and do a global edit to multiply the base demand by a certain value. You can also apply a multiplier in the Demand Adjustment in the calculation options.
You can find more information on these options here: Viewing and global editing a list of demand.
Regards,
Scott