Parson Laboratory: Recent submissions

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    • Simulation of Random Fields with the Turning Bands Method 

      Mantoglou, Aristotelis; Wilson, John L. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Hydrology and Water Resources Systems, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981-07)
      This report presents and extends the Turning Bands Method (TBM) for the synthetic simulation of random fields. Originally introduced by G. Matheron (1973) of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the TBM can be applied to stationary ...

    • Study of a Real-time Adaptive Closed-loop Control Algorithm for Reservoir Operation 

      Buchanan, Ross B.; Bras, Rafael L. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981-07)
      Recent studies on the optimal control of the High Aswan Dam in Egypt have illustrated the usefulness of steady-state stochastic dynamic programming techniques for deriving optimal release policies. This work likewise uses ...

    • The Practice of Kriging 

      Kafritsas, John; Bras, Rafael L. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981-01)
      The theory of intrinsic random functions of order k (IRF-K) and its use in optimal linear interpolation is presented using a simple deterministic formulation. Also outlined are the procedures for identification of generalized ...