Majid Niazkar - MSc. student of Civil Engineering Dept. of Civil Eng., School of Engineering, Shiraz University
Mohammad Javad Abedini - Professor of Civil Engineering,Dept. of Civil Eng., School of Engineering, Shiraz University

Analysis of Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) is considered to be an essential topic for further investigation in sustainable development. It plays an important role in analysis and design of water supply, drip irrigation, and oil transmission networks. In this regard, numerous numerical techniques havebeen devised to analyze and obtain the pressure and velocity fields corresponding to the associated networks. This critical review of literature is intended to provide current state-of-the-art on various issues including available options to cast the Governing Equations (GEs), methods of solution proposed,interaction between state variable involved and numerical schemes used and then the network component being modeled. The literature review begins with putting the various efforts in context in reference to terminologies used in applied mathematics, and then highlights the gap in the existing literature on waysfor which the initial guess can be rationalized in numerical solutions of WDSs. Finally, some conclusions are drawn on the future of trends in such analysis to make the whole process more efficient

Water distribution system, Literature review, Methods of solution, Network components, Analysis