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High-end system to facilitate the country’s flood control works
The joint research project "Multiobjective
decision making and rainfall-runoff
prediction theories for complex flood
control system for reservoirs" conducted
by PolyU, Dalian University of Technology
and Dalian Naval Academy of the PLA,
is a flood control software management
system. It has a forecasting accuracy
of over 90%, providing an effective
method to dispatch in the actual flooding
environment. The system has been
successfully applied to the flood control
system centred around the Three Gorges
Reservoir for flooding system planning,
and the Liao River, Hun River and Tai
River for real time operation of reservoirs,
allowing decision-making authorities in
dispatching more effective flood control,
as well as to plan for feasibility study of
hydroelectric generation. The system has
now been installed in over 100 medium
to large reservoirs in the
Chinese mainland. Dr.
Chau Kwok-wing of the
Department of Civil and
Structural Engineering, who
is the person-in-charge of the
project, has been honoured
with the second-class award
of the prestigious State
Natural Science Awards
(SNSA) in 2009.
Dr. Chau Kwok-wing, recipient of SNSA second-class award.