Regional water resource routing using optimization Conference

Park, J, Obeysekera, J, Boone, C et al. (2007). Regional water resource routing using optimization .

cited authors

  • Park, J; Obeysekera, J; Boone, C; Ham, JH; Loucks, DP

authors

abstract

  • The District is currently exploring the feasibility of using optimization to route flows throughout the basin to meet defined economic and ecologic goals. To date two optimization models have been developed. The first is for the routing of flows in the southern Miami-Dade portion of the regional simulation model (RSM). This effort showed the feasibility of extending the model to the routing of flows in larger portions of the RSM. Another optimization model was developed to determine the flows to and from the major storage basins in the region (i.e., Lake Okeechobee, the water conservation areas, the service areas, the parks, and St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Rivers) that meet user specified stage and demand targets over multiple time periods. It was evaluated by comparing its results to those of another simulation model that uses rules to determine flow allocations. The optimization models provided results that met all specified goals but did not match all the simulated flows in all the links between the basins. This shows that there are numerous ways to meet stage and demand targets with the specified hydrologic inputs, and that since there are no specified flow targets (except at demand sites), the optimization model just picks one such set of flows. If desired, flow targets could be defined in each link in each time period. These optimization models were tested with different input data sets, and up to 365 periods. Weights are included in the model to allow the user to set relative priorities among various targets. © 2007 ASCE.

publication date

  • December 1, 2007

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13