Reservoir flood control operation based on chaotic particle swarm optimization algorithm

Reservoir flood control operation is a complex engineering optimization problem with a large number of constraints. In order to solve this problem, a chaotic particle swarm optimization (CPSO) algorithm based on the improved logistic map is presented, which uses the discharge flow process as the decision variables combined with the death penalty function. According to the principle of maximum eliminating flood peak, a novel flood control operation model has been established with the goal of minimum standard deviation of the discharge flow process. At the same time, a piecewise linear interpolation function (PLIF) is applied to deal with the constraints for solving objective function. The performance of the proposed model and method is evaluated on two typical floods of Three Gorges reservoir. In comparison with existing models and other algorithms, the proposed model and algorithm can generate better solutions with the minimal flood peak discharge and the maximal peak-clipping rate for reservoir flood control operation. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.