Detection of water leaks with Dowsing technique and Reynold's transport theorem

Abstract

Zahorí techniques are traditionally used to detect water currents in land for subsequent extraction. On the other hand, water leaks represent economic losses in factories and residences. It is enough to survey a city and determine the exaggerated number of residential leaks. Once the leak appears, a corrective action must be taken, this action is founded in itself and in the problems derived from this failure; and it is that knowing the exact location of a leak is risky if strictly collateral damage appears in the property. This research proposes to complement two different techniques, the first detects the presence of water based on the Dowsing search, and the second uses the Reynolds Transport Theorem to detect the leak relying on numerical methods and computational simulation. The Dowsing search proved to be reliable to detect the presence of water, the Reynolds Transport Theorem, yields the location of the leak with an average relative error of 10.6727% and the computational simulation corroborates Darcy's Law. Therefore, the method proposed in this investigation is sufficient for the corrective management of leaks.