%0 Journal Article %T Control of transients in water distribution networks by H£¤ Control %A Terra %A M. H. %A Reis %A J. A. T. dos %A Chaudhry %A F. H. %A Souza %A R. Schiavetto de %J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences %D 2002 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-73862002000400006 %X in this work, a controller for regulating the transients in water distribution networks is established. the control technique is the h£¤ control. the developed controller is applied to a water distribution network and the results of this application demonstrate that the technique allowed the establishment of a robust controller, capable of attenuating the disturbances in a suitable way, being effective in controlling the oscillations of the state variables in question. %K hydraulics transients %K water distribution networks %K h-infinity control. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-73862002000400006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en