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OPTIMUM DESIGN OF INTERBASIN TUNNEL SYSTEMS 1
Author(s) -
Christensen B. A.,
Bush Peter W.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1971.tb05909.x
Subject(s) - volume (thermodynamics) , channel (broadcasting) , environmental science , water tunnel , hydrology (agriculture) , marine engineering , petroleum engineering , geology , computer science , engineering , geotechnical engineering , mechanics , physics , computer network , quantum mechanics , vortex
Interbasin water transfer is often accomplished by tunnel systems discharging the water from subreservoirs into a main reservoir. Such a system involving an arbitrary number of reservoirs is considered and an iterative method is developed for the determination of all tunnel sizes giving minimum total cost of the system when the individual discharges from the subreservoirs and elevations of the water surfaces of all reservoirs are known. It is assumed that all tunnels are flowing full. Influence of average construction cost per unit volume as well as tunnel roughness and cross‐sectional shape is taken into consideration. The corresponding computer program for the general case is presented. The method may also be adapted to pipe systems, open channel systems, or combined systems by introduction of the proper cost functions for these conduits.