Abstract
AbstractCombined optimization‐simulation models for designing ground‐water remediation systems generally focus on design strategies that use only one remedial technology, typically pumping. In practice, many field remediation programs use pumping along with one or more additional ground‐water control technologies, such as drains, trenches, slurry walls, and low permeability caps. Simulated annealing provides a flexible optimization framework that can incorporate a number of different remedial technologies into the design process. Using simulated annealing, additional remedial technologies can be added to or subtracted from the optimization at any time. This flexibility can provide for remedial design evaluations that are more consistent with current field implementations. The use of simulated annealing is demonstrated by a series of hypothetical remediation design problems that incorporate four different remedial technologies. The computed optimal design solution depends on the relative costs of the remedial tools as specified by the cost function and on the effects that each tool has on the system behavior. A sensitivity analysis can reveal which costs are critical to the outcome of the optimization.
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