This work presents a computational model as a new tool for leak localization. The considered model was developed through the coupling of hydraulic simulator based in Time Marching Approach - TMA method with the Nelder-Mead optimization algorithm. The model was applied to a real water distribution network, in the city of Jundiaí, Brazil. In the carried through tests it was clearly the adequate functioning of the presented model, therefore the simulated escape was located, being observed, however, the necessity of an improvement in the localization of the monitor points, during the execution of the simulation.
Water loss; leak detection; computational model; Nelder-Mead
