Real Time Modeling to Meet Flow Requirements at a Fossil Steam Plant
A real time modeling system has been developed to schedule hydropower operations in order to comply with discharge permit requirements at a downstream fossil steam plant. The modeling...
Hydraulic Investigation of the Cache River Basin
To develop a comprehensive solution to the problems that exist in the basin, the Illinois State Water Survey has initiated a hydraulic study. This ongoing research includes collection...
Ackers-White Equation: Transportation by Size Fractions
The Ackers-White procedure for sediment transport has been modified to permit calculation by size fractions. The original logic has been retained, but A values for incipient motion have...
Controlled-Drainage Supplements Subirrigation in Humid Regions
A computer simulation was conducted using climate and soil conditions of the humid southern U. S. to demonstrate optional operating methods for dual controlled-subdrainage/subirrigation...
Non Linear Economic Models for Crop Production
Most economic models for crop production rely on the traditional linear programming approach, in spite of the fact that the objective function is almost always non linear. This paper briefly...
Crop Production Models in Water Management
A weather generating model called WMAKER is introduced. The model generates daily climatic data based on the mean monthly values of temperature, precipitation, number of rainy days and...
Choices Between Micro and Mainframe Computers
The explosion of microcomputers (PCs) has shifted a great amount of engineering computing from mainframes to micros. It has also shifted a lot of programming from FORTRAN to BASIC. This...
The Use of Spread Sheets in Water Resources Planning
With the advent of 'spread sheets' in the microcomputer explosion, a tool is available for the first time to greatly simplify many engineering procedures. This...
Delivery System Management Via Dynamic Programming
Management of irrigation water delivery systems may involve allocating limited water supplies over both time and space under uncertain future demands. The physical delivery systems are...
Interactive Surface Irrigation Design and Evaluation Software
This paper outlines the features and capabilities of a comprehensive personal computer software system for use by irrigation engineers in design and evaluation of continuous and surge...
The Relationship of Benefits to System Size for Irrigation Projects
This paper presents a generalized linear programming (LP) and farm budget model for optimization of on-farm irrigation benefits resulting from variations in irrigation project size. The...
Selenium Removal?Can We Afford It?
The process of biologically removing the element selenium from agricultural drainage water is discussed and an economic evaluation of the process is presented. If by-products can be recovered,...
Optimum Irrigation Under Saline Conditions
A dynamic production function for cotton is estimated. Optimal irrigation volumes, timing, and qualities are calculated using dynamic programming. Optimal water quantities are sensitive...
Satellite Remote Sensing for Regional Crop Inventories
LANDSAT 4 and 5 Satellite spectral images of the Columbia Basin were obtained during the 1984, 1985 and 1986 growing seasons by Cropix, Inc. of Hermiston, Oregon. A field classification...
Estimating Number and Duration of On-Times for Surge Irrigation
Research shows surge flow can achieve efficient and uniform irrigation on some soils. However, most available information focuses on computerized analysis and modeling for research purposes....
Spread Sheets for Irrigation and Drainage Projects
Land use planners as well as planners from other disciplines use overlays for site analysis but these are usually a qualitative display. Recently the advent of spread sheets coupled with...
Forty Years of Computational Hydraulics?1960-2000
The definition of computational hydraulics as used herein is: the application of numerical methods for the solution of problems of hydraulic flows, largely as practiced by the civil engineering...
Furrow Modeling with Variable Hydraulic Characteristics
A zero inertia furrow irrigation model was developed to run on an IBM-compatible micro-computer. The depth gradient term of the momentum equation is approximated by averaging over the...
Estimating Firm Yield and Reliability of Small Reservoirs on Ungaged Streams in North-Central Montana
A reservoir-operation algorithm utilizing a sequence of monthly streamflows from a lag-one Markov model is proposed for estimating firm yield and reliability. The reservoir-operation algorithm...
A Water Quality Model for Urbanized Drainage Basins
The Virginia Stormwater (VAST) Model has been developed for use on IBM compatible microcomputers to simulate stormwater runoff and nonpoint source pollution. Hydrologic and nonpoint source...
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