Experimental Design to Support Water Quality Modelling of Sewer Systems

Abstract

The paper proposes a model-based experimental design to calibrate a sewer water quality model for the Clos de Hilde catchment in Bordeaux, France. In order to carry out an experimental design, a preliminary calibrated model is developed and the influential parameters are identified. Subsequently the model is used to select the most information-rich experiment for calibration of the final model. This is done by simulating proposed experiments and evaluating the Fisher Information Matrix that quantifies the experiment’s information content. The selected experiment will be carried out during the upcoming measurement campaign in summer 2018.