Application of Three-dimensional Simulation Technology in Reservoir Regulation and Operational Management

Reservoir regulation and operational decision-making construct an extremely complex process, which shows the apparent semi-structured or unstructured characteristics. It is difficult to use only mathematical models to describe, and the models must be constantly amended and combined with practical experience in a variety of regulation schemes. In addition, the implementation of the regulation decisions requires high timeliness and intuition to provide information for the decision-makers. In this paper, combined with the 3DGIS technique, the virtual simulation technology and the reservoir optimization regulating models, a three-dimensional simulation environment of reservoir regulation and operational management is established to simulate the dam gates, river flow, dam discharging flow, and so on. These simulations are built on the real-time data of dam gates, calculating data of reservoir regulation and artificial controlling data. Therefore, the front of the system establishes the three dimensional simulation environment of reservoir regulation for inputting data and displaying result, the back of the system carries out computing the mathematical model of reservoir regulation to realize the integration of “Visualization” and “Calculation”.