Water Conveyance Canal Design Model CANAL-I: Program Documentation and User's Manual

摘要

The CANAL-I computer program described in this report is an automated procedure for determining the least-costly route location and engineering design of a water supply canal. It can be utilized to determine, for a fixed flow delivery rate, the most economical location and combination of open channels, embankment dams, pipelines, pump stations, and canal structures. The canal route consists of a series of route sections and junctions and is represented by a directed network. The program computes the optimal steady-state design and route from an over-specified set of potential routes and alternative facilities. The physical system of potential canal routes are represented as a network. The canal location and design problem is solved by a dynamic programming algorithm.