Flood Routing on a Small Computer

by Richard J. Heggen, (A.M.ASCE), Assoc. Prof.; Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131,


Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1983, Vol. 53, Issue 3, Pg. 63-66


Document Type: Feature article

Abstract:

A BASIC program is developed to route flood discharge through a system of river channels and reservoirs. The brevity of this program and the use of an overlaid computational matrix make it suitable for minicomputer execution with 32 K of RAM. Channel hydrographs are computed by the Muskingum method; reservoir hydrographs, by the Puls method. Data input consists of routing coefficients for channels, reservoir state-discharge-storage curves, and description of network configuration. An illustrative run is discussed.

Subject Headings: Flood routing | Reservoirs | Channels (waterway) | Hydrographs | Water discharge | River systems | Matrix (mathematics)

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