ABSTRACT
Real-time operation of multireservoir systems involves various hydrologic, hydraulic, operational, technical, and institutional considerations. Flood forecasting, in general, and real-time flood forecasting, in particular, have always been an important problem in operational hydrology, especially when the operation of storage reservoirs is involved. The Tennessee Valley Authority developed an incremental dynamic programming and successive approximations technique for real-time operations, with flood control and hydropower generation being the objectives. Yazicigil developed a linear programming (LP) optimization model for the daily real-time operations of the Green River basin in Indiana, a system of four multipurpose reservoirs. The real-time reservoir operation problem involves the operation of a reservoir system by making decisions on reservoir releases as information becomes available, with relatively short time intervals which may vary between several minutes and several hours. The model can be based on any of a number of objective functions reflecting various approaches to real-time reservoir operation for flood control.
