Abstract: In a companion paper, a class of downstream-water-level feedback canal controllers was described. Within this class, a particular controller is chosen by selecting which controller coefficients to optimize (tune), the ...

Abstract: Simulation models for unsteady open channel flows have been commercially available for more than 2 decades. Most of these models are now available for personal computers and can be used to study the control of irrigation ...

Abstract: The Central Arizona Project (CAP) has been supplying Colorado River water to Central Arizona for roughly 25 years. The CAP canal is operated remotely with a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. Gate-position ...