AN ALGORITHM FOR DESIGN OF BRICK LINING FOR IRRIGATION CHANNELS

Akshay Chaudhary, Amanpreet Singh

Abstract: Irrigation water is a costly commodity, and as such, there should be no wastage during its carriage from the reservoirs to the fields. Most of the canals constructed to carry this irrigation water, are unlined, and hence; a large part of it is lost in percolation and absorption as seepage loss (25-50% of the water is lost in seepage). The seepage can be avoided by lining the canals. The conveyance of water for spatial water balance has complex hierarchy extending upon huge canals hundreds of kilometers along with branches etc, to small channels, distributaries in delivering the water to soil in the cropped field that act as storage units for the plants. The networking of canal system is complex in nature. So, in order to solve such complex nature of problem, a computer algorithm based on C++ language for the design and economics of lined channel is developed in the present study.

Keywords: Algorithm, Canals, C++, Percolation and Seepage loss

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303020