Reservoirs sit at the heart of water supply, hydropower, and flood management, and operating them well means trading off objectives that often conflict. This theme derives optimal operating rules for single- and multi-reservoir systems under hydrologic variability.
Work in this area has applied algorithms such as the Water Cycle Algorithm and other metaheuristics to reservoir operation, producing policies that improve reliability and performance over conventional rules.
- Multi-objective operation: supply, energy, flood control, ecology
- Operating-rule extraction and policy design
- Performance under hydrologic uncertainty