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FLOOD CONTROL STORAGE ALLOCATIONS BY LINEAR PROGRAMMING 1
Author(s) -
Liu Chinshu
Publication year - 1972
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.1752-1688.1972.tb05985.x
Subject(s) - flood control , flood myth , linear programming , function (biology) , computer science , environmental science , transformation (genetics) , damages , optimal control , measure (data warehouse) , hydrology (agriculture) , mathematical optimization , operations research , engineering , mathematics , algorithm , data mining , geotechnical engineering , geography , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , evolutionary biology , gene , political science , law
. The setting of rule curves for reservoirs or lakes operation requires balancing the flood control storages reserved against the storage requirements for various conservation uses. In this study, a linear programming model is developed to perform single purpose analysis that minimizes flood damages of a multi‐lake river system under various initial and input conditions. A flood control utility measure function is arrived from the resulting analysis, and the inclusion of the function in conservation analysis could provide the total functional analysis. The river‐system transition function involving time‐lags of short duration is described. The function constitutes the basis for the optimization model, and also provides the transformation to reduce significantly the size of the problem. The application to a critical subsystem in the Oswego River System is reported.