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MIT OpenCourseWare
Water Resource Systems
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- Instructor
- Prof. Dennis McLaughlin
- Term
- Fall 2006
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 25 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 1.731 Water Resource Systems, Fall 2006, Prof. Dennis McLaughlin — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
18 files
- Introduction Example: Irrigation and Salination Download
- This file is a supporting file for the introductory lecture (irrigation.m) Download
- Linear Algebra Review Download
- General Optimization Concepts Download
- General Optimization Concepts (cont.) Download
- Optimality Conditions Download
- Linear Programming Overview Download
- Linear Programming Sensitivity Analysis Download
- Differential Constraints Download
- Nonlinear Programming Algorithms Download
- Optimization over Time, Discounting Download
- Multiobjective Optimization, Utility, Risk Aversion Download
- Supply and Demand, Groundwater Management Download
- River Basin Planning - Screening Download
- Real-time Optimization, Dynamic Programming Download
- Capacity Expansion Download
- This resource is a supporting file for the lecture covering Capacity Expansion (Lecture06_21.m) Download
- Variational and Adjoint Methods, Data Assimilation Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Linear Algebra Review
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Lecture 3: General Optimization Concepts
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Lecture 4: General Optimization Concepts (cont.)
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Lecture 5: Optimality Conditions
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Lecture 6: Optimality Conditions (cont.)
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Lecture 7: Linear Programming Overview
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Lecture 8: Duality, Linear Programming Solution Strategies
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Lecture 9: Linear Programming Sensitivity Analysis
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Lecture 10: Quadratic Programming
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Lecture 11: Differential Constraints
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Lecture 12: Nonlinear Programming Algorithms
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Lecture 13: Nonlinear Programming Algorithms (cont.)
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Lecture 14: Optimization over Time, Discounting
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Lecture 15: Multiobjective Optimization, Utility, Risk Aversion
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Lecture 16: Supply and Demand, Groundwater Management
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Lecture 17: River Basin Planning - Screening
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Lecture 18: River Basin Planning - Simulation
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Lecture 19: Real-time Optimization, Dynamic Programming
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Lecture 20: Real-time Optimization, Dynamic Programming (cont.)
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Lecture 21: Capacity Expansion
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Lecture 22: Common Pool Problems
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Lecture 23: Variational and Adjoint Methods, Data Assimilation
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Lecture 24: Review
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Lecture 25: Project Presentations
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Lecture 26: Project Presentations (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Dennis McLaughlin, 1.731 Water Resource Systems, Fall 2006.
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