Optimal Control of Hydrosystems

by Mays, Larry W.

• ISBN13: 9780824798307
• ISBN10: 0824798309
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Marcel Dekker Inc

Summary

This comprehensive reference/text combines the hydraulic simulation of physical processes with mathematical programming and differential dynamic programming techniques to ensure the optimization of hydrosystems.
Optimal Control of Hydrosystems presents the principles and methodologies for systems and optimal control concepts, introducing the hydrosystem control problems as discrete-time optimal control problems - features differential dynamic programming in developing models and solution algorithms for groundwater, real-time flood and sediment control of river-reservoir systems, and water distribution systems operations, as well as bay and estuary freshwater inflow reservoir operations...analyzes nonlinear optimization methods, including generalized reduced gradient (GRG), penalty function, and augmented Lagrangian methods...contains numerous applications ranging from water distribution system operation to estuary management and soil aquifer treatment system operation...discusses hydraulic simulator and optimizer interfacing in optimal control frameworks...and more.

Author Biography

Larry W. Mays is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Table of Contents

Basic concepts for optimal control

Systems theory and optimal control

Introduction to hydrosystems problems

Applications based on mathematical programming

Nonlinear optimization methods

Groundwater management systems

Real-time operation of river-reservoir systems

Water distribution system operation

Freshwater inflows to estuaries

Applications based on control procedures

Optimal control by feedback control methods

Differential dynamic programming

Estuarine management models

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