Minimization of cost, sediment load, and sensitivity to climate change in a watershed management application
Finds non-dominated sets of BMP configurations for urban stormwater management. Efficient multiscale staged optimization using multiobjective differential evolution. Pre-optimization of feasible subwatershed BMP configurations for all treatment levels. Goals are to minimize cost, sediment load, and sensitivity to increases in precipitation. Demonstrated on mixed-use Bartlett Brook watershed in South Burlington, VT, USA.
stormwater management multiobjective differential evolution robustness to uncertainty best management practices (bmps) total maximum daily load (tmdl)