1 Planning and analysis of Water Resource Systems: Introduction, System
Analysis, Engineers and Policymakers
2 Methods of Analysis: Introduction, Evaluation of Time streams of Benefits and
Costs. Plan formulation, Planning models and solution procedures, Lagranges
Multipliers, Dynamic Programming, Recursive equations, Bellmans’ principle of
optimality. Curse of dimensionality of discrete dynamic programming. Examples
3 Reservoir Operation: Sequential process, single Reservoir problem - with release
as decision variable, with storage as decision variable (deterministic approach).
Examples, Related Computer Programming. Multi–reservoir problems
(Deterministic approach)
4 Water Resources Planning under Uncertainty: Introduction, probability concepts
and Methods – Random variable and Distributions, Univariate probability
Distributions ,properties of Random variable – Moment and Expectation ( Univariate
Distributions) , Moment Generating Functions, Measures of Central tendency,
Measures of Dispersion, Measures of symmetry ( Skewness), measures of
peakedness ( kurtosis), examples
5 Stochastic River Basin Planning Model: Introduction, Reservoir operation,
Stochastic, Dynamic programming, Operating Model, Probability Distribution of
Storage volumes and Releases, examples
6 Water quality Management: Prediction and Simulation, Water quality
Management Modeling