Development of Advanced Tools for Multi-Objective Analysis of Water Resources Engineering Systems

水资源系统本质上是多用途的，任何合理的环境管理决策，如如何操作它们以减轻未来气候条件的影响，都应反映它们的多目标性质。例如，河流-水库系统的运行可以设计为最大限度地提高城市、农业和工业取水的可靠性，最大限度地从水力发电和商业航运中获得货币效益，并最大限度地减少对系统中栖息地的负面环境影响。我的研究项目产生了先进的工具来分析水资源工程系统在一个高效和有效的多目标模拟优化框架。这些工具将利用高性能计算资源来适应广泛的计算规模，并将使研究人员、高级建模者和环境系统分析师能够访问。

Water resources systems are inherently multipurpose, and any sound environmental management decision such as how to operate them to mitigate impacts of future climate conditions should reflect their multi-objective nature. For example, the operation of a river-reservoir system can be designed to maximize the reliability of supplying water for urban, agricultural, and industrial intakes, to maximize the monetary benefits obtained from hydropower generation and commercial navigation, and to minimize negative environmental impacts on habitats in the system. My research program generates advanced tools to analyze water resources engineering systems in an efficient and effective multi-objective simulation-optimization framework. These tools will utilize high performance computing resources to be adaptable to a wide range of computational scales and will be made accessible to researchers, advanced modellers, and environmental system analysts.