Leena Divakar
Simulation of a reservoir system with multiple objectives - Tavanur Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Kelappaji College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology 2000
During the past three decades, the application of the systems approach to
reservoir management application has been established as one of the most important
advances made in the field of water resources engineering. Water resources planning
has become exceedingly complex and is bound to become even more complex in the
future considering the various demands. Application of sophisticated techniques for
scientific planning and utilisation of the limited available water resources has
become highly necessary to meet the growing demands of various types of
consumptive and non-consumptive needs.
Though India has been endowed with plenty of rainfall, the distribution is
uneven both in time and space. A reservoir system simulation model reproduces the
hydrologic and in some cases economic performance of a reservoir system for given
inflow and operating rules.
A computer simulation model for a multipurpose reservoir system was
developed and tested for Peechi reservoir of Kerala state in south India. The model
was designed for monthly operation with historic inflow of 35 years. The model
obtains the monthly releases for various uses. The monthly water requirements for
different purposes like drinking, irrigation, pisciculture and recreation are taken as
the target to be achieved by the model. Out of the different uses only irrigation
demand had monthly variation and the rest were taken as constants along with the
dead storage and the maximum capacity for opening of the shutters. The objective of
the model is to minimise the deviations of the release from the targets for each
demand.
The model has been formulated with appropriate priorities, which satisfy the
continuity and physical conditions of the system. The priorities of different water
demands can be altered at any stage of the operation according to the changing
needs of the region The program is written in Visual Basic-6.0 and the results gave
the monthly releases and deficits of different demands. One advantage of the model
is that even non technical decision makers can comprehend the results obtained
from this. The efficiency of the model is such that the solution can be obtained in the
quickest time possible and is very user friendly.
631.3 / LEE/SI
Simulation of a reservoir system with multiple objectives - Tavanur Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Kelappaji College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology 2000
During the past three decades, the application of the systems approach to
reservoir management application has been established as one of the most important
advances made in the field of water resources engineering. Water resources planning
has become exceedingly complex and is bound to become even more complex in the
future considering the various demands. Application of sophisticated techniques for
scientific planning and utilisation of the limited available water resources has
become highly necessary to meet the growing demands of various types of
consumptive and non-consumptive needs.
Though India has been endowed with plenty of rainfall, the distribution is
uneven both in time and space. A reservoir system simulation model reproduces the
hydrologic and in some cases economic performance of a reservoir system for given
inflow and operating rules.
A computer simulation model for a multipurpose reservoir system was
developed and tested for Peechi reservoir of Kerala state in south India. The model
was designed for monthly operation with historic inflow of 35 years. The model
obtains the monthly releases for various uses. The monthly water requirements for
different purposes like drinking, irrigation, pisciculture and recreation are taken as
the target to be achieved by the model. Out of the different uses only irrigation
demand had monthly variation and the rest were taken as constants along with the
dead storage and the maximum capacity for opening of the shutters. The objective of
the model is to minimise the deviations of the release from the targets for each
demand.
The model has been formulated with appropriate priorities, which satisfy the
continuity and physical conditions of the system. The priorities of different water
demands can be altered at any stage of the operation according to the changing
needs of the region The program is written in Visual Basic-6.0 and the results gave
the monthly releases and deficits of different demands. One advantage of the model
is that even non technical decision makers can comprehend the results obtained
from this. The efficiency of the model is such that the solution can be obtained in the
quickest time possible and is very user friendly.
631.3 / LEE/SI