Abstract: An optimization model is presented for determining the optimal design capacities of a water delivery system integrating small hydropower plants. A discrete distance model of the transmission pipeline is solved by employing ...

Abstract: A sampling design methodology for monitoring contaminant distribution in lake sediments is presented in this paper. Two optimization approaches are employed: a minimization of the variance of estimation approach and a ...

Abstract: A multivariate approach for the design of ground‐water monitoring networks is presented. The proposed technique is based on the geostatistical method of cokriging. The network design problem is posed as an optimization ...