ResOS, a web application to investigate reservoir operation methods: simulation and optimization

Operation policies of reservoirs may be generated by simulation or optimization methods. Water resources management students and/or water system planner often have difficulties employing modern heuristic optimization methods such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) to produce optimum operation policies since these tools are provided in commercial and sophisticated software packages. This paper introduces a web application called ResOS which freely provides simulation and optimization tools (e.g. GA) to produce operation policy for reservoirs. Being developed web-based, ResOS can be used on all internet connected devices such as computers or cell phones. ResOS requires no minimum hardware configuration to run because all calculation modules run on the server side and user device only displays the results. Simulation and optimization methods along with multiple loss functions and performance criteria are explained in this paper. To illustrate the routine of ResOS a real-world reservoir is investigated as a case study

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ResOS , educational web application , reservoir operation policy , optimization