In this paper, a methodology for the optimal management of a combined irrigation and water supply system based on model predictive control (MPC) is proposed. A controloriented modelling methodology for this type of systems is presented as well. MPC is used to generate flow control strategies from the sources to the consumer and irrigation areas to meet future demands with appropriate flows, opt...

In this paper, we present the BLACK scheme that aims to prevent the unfairness problem generated by high bandwidth unresponsive flows. The scheme needs to store only a small amount of state information to maintain and exercise its fairness mechanism and utilizes a packet sampling technique that estimates both the flow’s buffer occupancy fraction and the number of active flows. When working in c...

to determine sugar content and root yield variation of new sugar beet hybrids under different irrigation levels, an experiment was carried out at zarghan agricultural research station offars agricultural and natural resources research center, shiraz, iran. the study was conducted as split block based on a randomized complete block design with three replications for two years, 2009-10, using lin...

In low-collisionality plasmas, anisotropic heat conduction due to a magnetic field leads to buoyancy instabilities for any nonzero temperature gradient. We study analogous instabilities in degenerate collisional plasmas, i.e., when the electron collision frequency is large compared to the electron cyclotron frequency. Although heat conduction is nearly isotropic in this limit, the small residua...

In this paper, we propose SFD algorithm to reduce the user-perceived web latency. This algorithm gives short flows preferential treatment. We implement SFD algorithm as a simple differentiated services policy and evaluate its performance in simulation. We find that SFD algorithm reduces the transmission latency of short flows and the response time to retrieve representative web pages by about 3...

A resource investment problem is a project-scheduling problem in which the availability levels of the resources are considered as decision variables and the goal is to find a schedule, and resource requirement levels, such that some objective function optimizes. In this paper, we consider a resource investment problem in which the goal is to maximize the net present value of the project cash fl...

Research on the soil structural effects of potassium (K) in irrigation wastewaters has received limited attention due to the typically low abundance of K in most waters. Winery processing wastewater however tends to have elevated concentrations of both K and sodium (Na). This study investigated the contrasting cation dynamics under municipal and winery wastewater following irrigation to a heavy...

increasing the water use efficiency in crop production is an important issue today. an experiment was conducted in 2009 in order to evaluate the corn reaction to partial root zone drying at fars province. treatments consisted of four irrigation levels (control, alternative furrow irrigation during whole season, alternative furrow irrigation until flowering then full irrigation and full irrigati...

shallot (allium altissimum regel.) is a medicinal, industrial and perennial plant that has underground tubers. it is one of the most important allium species in iran, which normally grows in semi-cold to very cold highlands. because of being a wild plant, shallot is encounter with water deficit during its growth season. therefore evaluation of water requirement of shallot is important. in order...