Simulation of Automatic Canal Control Systems
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 131, Issue 4
Abstract
Simulation models for unsteady open channel flows have been commercially available for more than 2 decades. Most of these models are now available for personal computers and can be used to study the control of irrigation canals. Studies on automatic control methods and algorithms have been performed on at least half a dozen of the available unsteady-flow simulation models. Although, many of these automation studies have been conducted by the institution that created the simulation model, these simulation models were not created with automatic gate control in mind, and thus one has to be intimately familiar with the source code in order to implement sophisticated control features. Three commercially available unsteady-flow simulation software packages that allow automatic control of gates based on algorithms written by users are: CanalCAD from the Univ. of Iowa, Hydraulics Lab; Mike 11 version 3.2 from the Danish Hydraulic Institute; and Sobek from Delft Hydraulics. In this paper, we describe the various features of these unsteady-flow simulation packages and how they interface to control engineering software/code. There are a number of tradeoffs between simplicity and functionality. All these models present difficulties and have limitations. The hope is to provide guidance on the next generation of unsteady-flow canal simulation models so that control functions can be routinely applied.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 131 • Issue 4 • August 2005
Pages: 324 - 335
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Received: Mar 30, 2004
Accepted: Aug 19, 2004
Published online: Aug 1, 2005
Published in print: Aug 2005
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