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<br />of flood flows around a damage location. The cost of a diversion facility is <br />characterized similar to a pumping plant by a capital cost function, a capital <br />recovery factor, and annual operation, maintenance, and replacement factor. <br /> <br />SEARCH PROCEDURE <br /> <br />The strategy used herein for automatically adjusting the component sizes <br />such that an objective function can be minimized is that described previously <br /> <br />t <br />x <br />~ <br />, <br />c <br />.2 <br />u <br />c <br />, <br />... <br />j; <br />0 <br />0 <br /> <br />t <br /> <br /> <br />(Xo' f(xo)) <br />(Xo-loX, f(Xo-loX)) <br />,.----( Xo-2loX, f (Xo- 2loX)) <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Component Size x..... <br />, <br />, <br /> <br />x <br /> <br />~ <br />, <br />c <br />~ I <br /> <br />i OPti~U~i\i <br /> <br />in <br /> <br />FIG. 4,-Adjustment of Component Size by Newton-Raphson Convergence Procedure <br /> <br /> <br />o - Tributary Subbasin <br /> <br />6. - Natural Storaoe Area' <br /> <br />... - Damaoe Center <br /> <br />. - Component to be Sized <br />o Pumping Plant <br /> <br />q <br /> <br />FIG. 5.-Schematic of Blue Waters Ditch System <br /> <br />by Beard (2), The procedure is the univariate gradient procedure that makes <br />use of the trend characteristics of the objective function for selected small <br />changes in the size of each component. The convergence procedure used to <br />