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Hydrology, Hydraulics and Water Resources Management: A Heuristic Optimisation Approach
Author(s): K. L. Katsifarakis (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: WIT Press
- Publication Date: 11 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 174 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845646649
- ISBN-13: 9781845646646
Book Description
With the population of our planet exceeding seven billion, funds for infrastructure works being limited worldwide and climate change affecting water resources, their optimal development and management is literally vital. This volume deals with application of some non-traditional optimization techniques to hydraulics, hydrology and water resources management and aims at helping scientists dealing with these issues to reach the best decisions. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to optimization and its application to water resources management. Chapter 2 is dedicated to genetic algorithms. Chapter 3 focuses on applications of genetic algorithms to hydraulic networks, mainly irrigation ones. Chapter 4 is dedicated to simulated annealing. The particle swarm method (PSO) is discussed in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6 the basic concepts and features of Tabu search are presented and its coupling with other heuristic optimizers is discussed. Chapter 7 is dedicated to the Harmony Search method. Finally, Chapter 8 deals with the Outer Approximation method. This book is aimed at engineers and other scientists working on water resources management and hydraulic networks.
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About the Author
Konstantinos L. Katsifarakis (MS, Engineering Mechanics, University of Florida; Doctor, Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) has been a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, since 1999. His current research interests include Groundwater flows – Groundwater contamination control; Management of water resources; Low enthalpy geothermal energy; Optimization techniques; Environmental impact mitigation; History of hydrology. He is the editor of a number of WIT Press books in his field and is a member of the editorial board of the journals International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, Open Hydrology Journal, and Hydrotechnika. He has served on the organizing and/or scientific committees of more than 30 conferences and seminars and is a reviewer for a number of scientific journals in his field.
