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Flood Routing on a Small Computer

Richard J. Heggen

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A BASIC program is developed to route flood discharge through a system of river channels and reservoirs. The brevity of this program and the use of an overlaid computational matrix make it suitable for minicomputer execution with 32 K of RAM. Channel hydrographs are computed by the Muskingum method; reservoir hydrographs, by the Puls method. Data input consists of routing coefficients for channels, reservoir state-discharge-storage curves, and description of network configuration. An illustrative run is discussed.

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A BASIC program is developed to route flood discharge through a system of river channels and reservoirs. The brevity of this program and the use of an overlaid computational matrix make it suitable for minicomputer execution with 32 K of RAM. Channel hydrographs are computed by the Muskingum method; reservoir hydrographs, by the Puls method. Data input consists of routing coefficients for channels, reservoir state-discharge-storage curves, and description of network configuration. An illustrative run is discussed.

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A BASIC program is developed to route flood discharge through a system of river channels and reservoirs. The brevity of this program and the use of an overlaid computational matrix make it suitable for minicomputer execution with 32 K of RAM. Channel hydrographs are computed by the Muskingum method; reservoir hydrographs, by the Puls method. Data input consists of routing coefficients for channels, reservoir state-discharge-storage curves, and description of network configuration. An illustrative run is discussed.

Key concepts: Hydrograph, Minicomputer, Routing (electronic design automation), Channel (broadcasting), Computer science, Hydrology (agriculture), Flood myth, State (computer science)

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