Optimizing Reservoir Resources A New Model for Reservoir Reliability

About this book

Providing a new and more accurate mathematical methodology for managing water reservoirs, this book uses chance constraints to ensure the reliability of the water supply and analyses the randomness in a historical record of water flows to generate more reliable predictions of future flows.

Contents

DETERMINISTIC MODELS FOR THE OPERATION AND DESIGN OF RESERVOIRS.; The Water Supply Function: Single Reservoir.; The Water Supply Function: Multiple Reservoirs.; The Hydropower Function.; Cost Allocation and Staging/Sequencing.; Integrating Reservoir Services.; RESERVOIR ALLOCATION AND REALLOCATION INCLUDING THE NEW MODEL FOR RESERVOIR RELIABILITY.; Allocating Reservoir Services Among Water Supply, Flood Control, and Hydropower: The Deterministic Flow Environment.; Achieving a Reliable Water Supply with Chance--Constrained Programming and Event Responsive Density Adjustment.; Revisiting Allocation with the New Model Enforcing a Reliability Requirement.; The Reallocation of Reservoir Services Using the Reliability--Constrained Reservoir Model.; Index.

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Biography

CHARLES ReVELLE, PhD, is founder of and Professor in the Program in Systems Analysis and Economics for Public Decision Making at The Johns Hopkins University. Professor ReVelle teaches courses on water resources, on optimization, and on public sector applications of optimization methods.