Um modelo de alocação ótima da água de um reservatório para irrigação via programação não linear.

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the determination of an optimal police for the allocation of the available monthly storage of water in a reservoir to satisfy the user requirements for irrigation, fishing and flood control. Techniques of mathematical programming have been applied to the Engenheiro Arcoverde reservoir, which is located in the semi-arid region of Paraiba State. The attained results have shown that the producer would achieve the best profit if different areas are used for plantation during crop season and out of crop season. The achieved optimum values for those areas, which maximize the producer’s profit and obey the physical constraints related to the limits of available water, fishing requirements and flood control, were attained from the application of a nonlinear programming technique.