On the control of riverbed incision induced by run-of-river power plant

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 5023-5040

  Bizzi, Simone ^a   Dinh, Quang ^b   Bernardi, Dario ^c   Denaro, Simona ^b   Schippa, Leonardo ^c   Soncini Sessa, Rodolfo ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

hydro morphological model; multiobjective optimization; reservoir operation; response surface; surrogate modeling

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; LANDFORMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; RESERVOIR OPERATION; RESPONSE SURFACE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SURROGATE MODEL; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; POWER PLANT; RIVER BED; SURROGATE METHOD; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ITALY; PO RIVER;

EID: 84939427286     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016237     Document Type: Article

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