Dam system and reservoir operational safety: A meta-research

A Badr, Z Li, W El-Dakhakhni - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dams are critical infrastructure necessary for water security, agriculture, flood risk
management, river navigation, and clean energy generation. However, these multiple, and …

Improving the performance of rainfall-runoff models using the gene expression programming approach

H Esmaeili-Gisavandani, M Lotfirad… - Journal of Water and …, 2021 - iwaponline.com
In this study, five hydrological models, including the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT),
identification of unit hydrograph and component flows from rainfall, evapotranspiration, and …

Enhancing daily rainfall prediction in urban areas: a comparative study of hybrid artificial intelligence models with optimization algorithms

Y Sheikhi, SM Ashrafi, MR Nikoo, A Haghighi - Applied Water Science, 2023 - Springer
Forecasting precipitation is a crucial input to hydrological models and hydrological event
management. Accurate forecasts minimize the impact of extreme events on communities …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing effective warning storage to derive optimal reservoir operation policy based on the drought condition

M Beshavard, A Adib, SM Ashrafi, O Kisi - Agricultural Water Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The conventional discrete hedging model is connected to a drought early warning system
(DEWS) and a new concept called effective warning storage (ES). To prepare the desired …

Application of Harris Hawks optimization with reservoir simulation model considering hedging rule for network reservoir system

R Techarungruengsakul, A Kangrang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This research aims to apply the Harris hawks optimization (HHO) technique connected with
a reservoir simulation model to search optimal rule curves of the network reservoir system in …

A long lead time forecast model applying an ensemble approach for managing the great Karun multi-reservoir system

E Mostaghimzadeh, SM Ashrafi, A Adib… - Applied Water Science, 2023 - Springer
Flow prediction is regarded as a major computational process in strategic water resources
planning. Prediction's lead time has an inverse relationship with results' accuracy and …

Investigation of a composite two-phase hedging rule policy for a multi reservoir system using streamflow forecast

E Mostaghimzadeh, A Adib, SM Ashrafi… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-term changes in reservoir inflow due to climate changes and human interference
violate the assumptions of hydrologic stationarity especially in the reservoir design …

Two-stage metaheuristic mixed integer nonlinear programming approach to extract optimum hedging rules for multireservoir systems

S Mohammad Ashrafi - Journal of Water Resources Planning and …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Hedging policy is an applicable strategy for water resources systems with storage reservoirs
to reduce the damage resulting from extended droughts. Optimizing the operation of parallel …

Detection of abrupt shift and non-parametric analyses of trends in runoff time series in the Dez river basin

H Gholami, Y Moradi, M Lotfirad, MA Gandomi… - Water …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
The present study aims to investigate the homogeneity of runoff time series and also to
review the existence of trends in Tale Zang hydrometric station (the hydrometric station at …

Concern Condition for Applying Optimization Techniques with Reservoir Simulation Model for Searching Optimal Rule Curves

K Sriworamas, H Prasanchum, SM Ashrafi… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comprehensive review of optimization algorithms utilized in reservoir
simulation-optimization models, specifically focusing on determining optimal rule curves …