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Reservoir Storage/Yield Analysis Using the Annual Failure Method
Author(s) -
BROWN R. P. C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1991.tb00597.x
Subject(s) - yield (engineering) , environmental science , flow (mathematics) , volume (thermodynamics) , hydrology (agriculture) , mathematics , engineering , geotechnical engineering , materials science , geometry , physics , quantum mechanics , metallurgy
The ‘annual failure method’is presented as a new method for estimating the relationship between reservoir storage, yield, and frequency of failure. It is based on ‘semi‐infinite storage analysis’to determine critical storage volumes from the flow record for the given yield. ‘Behaviour analysis’performed on these storages allows estimation of the frequency of annual failure by counting the number of years in which a storage volume is exceeded. The method has been developed using data from flow records in northern and western Europe.