Abstract: The writers propose a successive improved dynamic programming (SIDP) algorithm for hydropower reservoir operation based on an analysis of concavity, complementarity, and monotonicity of hydropower problems. For single-period ...

Abstract: Diminishing marginal utility is an important characteristic of water resources systems. With the assumption of diminishing marginal utility (i.e., concavity) of reservoir utility functions, this paper derives a monotonic ...

Abstract: This paper develops optimal hedging rules for reservoir flood control operation under hydrological uncertainty using hydroeconomic and mathematical analysis. The capacity to convey flood flows is sometimes a scarce resource. ...

Abstract: Long-term changes in reservoir inflow due to climate change and human interferences have caused doubts on the assumption of hydrologic stationarity in reservoir design and operation. Incorporating uncertain predictions ...

Abstract: In this study, an optimal reservoir refill hedging rule (RHR) is developed under hydrologic uncertainty using a two-stage model. Based on the probability distribution of the maximum refill water availability at the end of ...