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- Appliances – where the type of appliances and occupancy for each house are fixed by the user
- Sampled appliances and occupancy – where the user inputs probability distributions for the occupancy and water-using appliance. At the start of an Urban Developer Scenario run the occupancy and appliance type is randomly sampled for each house in the Behavioural Water Use nodes.
- Average appliance demand – rather than sampling from the probability distribution of water consumption for a usage event for each appliance, the average water use is selected. This mode can be used in conjunction with Fixed or Sampled appliances and occupancy and is activated by the 'Use Average Demand' checkbox available in the Behavioural Water Use node user interface.
Further details on these configurations are given below in Behavioural Model Configuration.
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You can specify a number of houses smaller than 400, but should be aware that the sampled percentage of household occupancy and appliances appliance types may be different than the percentage you originally specified.
Average Demand
This mode can be used in conjunction with Fixed or Sampled appliances and occupancy and is activated by the 'Use Average Demand' checkbox available in the Behavioural Water Use node user interface.
References
Micevski, T., Thyer, M., Kuczera, G. (2011) A Behavioural Approach for Household Outdoor Water Use Modelling. Paper submitted to Water Resources Research (April 2011).
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