General Description

The output node (API Reference) is a general output at any point from the network. Output nodes remove water from the system.

Output nodes are required at the end of a river and in this use case generally do not have an allocation penalty or max_flow assigned.

Output nodes are also used to represent consumptive water demands. In this use case, they tend to have negative allocation penalties assigned so that the linear program allocates water to them as well as a max_flow which can be either a constant or a parameter representing the water demand.

Primary Attributes

Examples

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Output nodes are locations where water leaves the system. Below are the most used water output nodes:

General description

A loss link allows for the definition of a fixed proportional loss of flow that goes through this node. Loss links are often used to represent potable water treatment works which incur some process losses.

The Max and Min flow attributes that are defined are applied to the net output after losses.

The node itself records the net output in its flow attribute (which would be used by any attached recorders).

Primary Attributes

Example

In this example 10% of the gross amount of water flowing into the node is lost.