NPTEL Syllabus

Water Resources Systems Planning

and Management - Web course

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction, System Components, Planning and management,

Economics in water resources, Modeling of water resources systems,
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Constrained and unconstrained optimization, Linear programming with http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
applications to reservoir sizing, reservoir o p e ra ti o n , Dynamic
programming with applications to water allocation, capacity expansion,
reservoir operation;
Civil Engineering
Multi - objective optimization, Review of probability theory, Uncertainty
and reliability analysis, Stochastic optimization - Chance constrained
LP, Stochastic DP with applications, Surface water quality control;
Additional Reading:
Simulation - Reliability, Resiliency and Vulnerability of water resource
systems, Multipurpose reservoir operation for hydropower, flood control
and irrigation, Groundwater Systems, Water quality modeling, River 1. Chaturvedi, M.C., ‘Water Resources
basin Planning and management, Advanced topics. Systems Planning and Management’,
Tata McGraw - Hill, India, 1992.

Hyperlinks:
COURSE DETAIL
1. http://civil.iisc.ernet.in/~nagesh/stwree.htm
Hours
Total
Module Sub-Module for Sub- Coordinators:
Hours
Module
Dr. D. Nagesh Kumar
Department of Civil EngineeringIISc Bangalore
Introduction, System
Components, Planning and 1
management

Concept of a system,
Advantages and limitations
1. Introduction
of systems approach, 1
and Basic 3
Modeling of Water
Concepts
Resources Systems

Simulation and optimization,

Economics in water
1
resources, Challenges in
water sector

Objective function, Maxima,

minima and saddle points,
1
convex and concave
functions

2. Introduction
Constrained and 3
to Optimization
unconstrained optimization 1
using calculus

Lagrange multipliers, Kuhn-

1
 1
Tucker conditions.

General form of LP,

Standard and Canonical
1
forms of LP, Elementary
transformations

Graphical method, Feasible

1
3. Linear and infeasible solutions
Programming
6
and
Applications Simplex method, Dual and
2
sensitivity analysis

LP problem formulation,
Reservoir sizing and
2
Reservoir operation using
LP

Introduction, multistage
decision problem, Recursive
Equations, Principle of 1
optimality, Discrete DP,
Curse of Dimensionality

Water allocation problem 2

4. Dynamic
Programming
5
and
Applications Capacity expansion problem 1

Reservoir operation 1

Multipurpose reservoir
1
operation

Introduction, Non-inferior
solutions, Trade-off analysis, 1
Pareto optimal solutions

5. Multi-objective
Multipurpose reservoir 3
Optimization 1
operation

Weighted and constraint

1
methods, Other methods.

Review of probability theory 1

Uncertainty and reliability

1
analysis

6. Stochastic
Chance constrained LP 6
Optimization
(CCLP), CCLP for reservoir 2
operation
 Stochastic DP with
applications to reservoir 2
operation

Introduction, River basin

1
simulation

Reservoir operation
1
simulation
7. Simulation 3

Performance evaluation -
Reliability, Resiliency and
1
Vulnerability, Some
simulation models

River basin planning and

1
management

Water distribution systems 1

8. Water Groundwater systems 1

Resources
6
Systems
Modeling Water quality modeling 1

Floodplain management 1

Urban storm water

1
management

Fuzzy optimization 1

Genetic algorithms 1

9. Advanced Multi criteria decision

1 5
Topics making

Decision Support Systems 1

Expert Systems 1

Total: 40

References:
 1. Loucks D.P, Stedinger J.R and Haith D.A, ‘Water Resources
Systems Planning and Analysis’, Prentice Hall, USA, 1981.

2. Mays L.W and Tung Y-K, ‘Hydrosystems Engineering and

Management’, McGraw Hill, USA, 1992.

3. Vedula S. and Mujumdar P.P., ‘Water Resources Systems:

Modelling Techniques and Analysis’, Tata-McGraw Hill, 2005.

4. Jain S.K. and Singh V.P., ‘Water Resources Systems Planning

and Management’, Elsevier, The Netherlands, 2003.

5. Loucks D.P. and van Beek E., ‘Water Resources Systems

Planning and Management’, UNESCO Publishing, The
Netherlands, 2005.

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