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Controlling Floods by Optimization Methods

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Floods as natural phenomena exist and will continue to occur. No manmade project can stop a flood from happening, but there are several effective methods to reduce its risk, aftermath and consequences. This paper considers a novel formulation of the network interdiction problem with application on controlling floods. The aim of this work is to identify those arcs prone for flood, and implementing flood-control projects on these arcs, while required budget for deriving all these operations is bounded. the model is tested on a real-world case in Tabriz-Iran, and results are visualized.

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  1. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

  2. More information and data are available on: www.emdat.be and http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hazards/flood

  3. http://www.ndmo.org

  4. See, http://www.cbi.ir

  5. More information is available on: http://www.azarwater.ir

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

    Maryam Soleimani-Alyar & Alireza Ghaffari-Hadigheh

  2. Payame Noor University, Illkhchi Branch, Iran

    Fatemeh Sadeghi

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Soleimani-Alyar, M., Ghaffari-Hadigheh, A. & Sadeghi, F. Controlling Floods by Optimization Methods. Water Resour Manage 30, 4053–4062 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-016-1272-3

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