Preliminary Investigation into the Optimal Operation of a Water Resources System by Stochastic Programming

Abstract The model concerns the water release and distribution problem of the Karun River and its tributaries in Khuzestan, Iran. The system consists of three dams with three hydroelectric plants, 16 irrigation areas and 13 municipal/industrial demand locations. Water inflows fluctuate with time. A large nonlinear stochastic programming model was formulated to determine the optimal monthly water release rules for the dams for the whole year. Recource actions and chance constraints are incorporated in the model to account for the uncertainty of the inflows. Detailed water distributions to various demand sectors are treated as linear programming subproblems.

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