SCADA configuration and control modes implementation on an experimental water supply canal

In the last years, digital controllers became a very interesting alternative (low costs and higher accuracy) to the analogue or to hydrodynamic traditional controllers in water supply canal automation, in order to match water supply to water demands. This kind of hydraulic systems needs particular research for control applications because they are big scale systems, open and characterized by big delays and great inertia. This paper presents several digital control modes tested in an experimental canal that will be used as a research platform on the automatic canal control domain. The canal operation and their control modes selection are supervised by a SCADA system developed and configured for this particular canal.

SIG-TUR: UMA HERRAMIENTA PARA LA PLANIFICACIÓN, GESTIÓN Y CONTROL DE LOS DESTINOS TURISTICOS

El Sistema de Información Geográfica Aplicado al Turismo – SIG-Tur es una herramienta tecnológica que optimiza los estudios turísticos desarrollados por los planificadores del sector. En el estudio se buscó evidenciar el instrumento de planificación SIG-Tur, que dispone de funciones de registro, almacenamiento y manipulación de informaciones, además de considerar las dificultades enfrentadas al respecto de la representación de fenómenos espaciales que el turismo abarca. Para el estudio se adoptó la pesquisa bibliográfica, documental y exploratoria, a través del estudio de caso realizado en el Casco Histórico de Boa Vista/Roraima, unido al SIG-Tur, se puede demostrar la creación y administración del banco de dados de los subsistemas de recursos naturales, culturales y de facilidades turísticas; además de esto se constató la multifuncionalidad, la practicidad y el dinamismo de estos instrumentos de planificación. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo presentar los beneficios del SIG-Tur para la planificación del turismo sustentable en destinos turísticos. Sin embargo, esta herramienta tecnológica es innovadora e debe ser incorporada en los trabajos de los planificadores, a luz del desarrollo sustentable.

A second order control-volume finite-element least-squares strategy for simulating diffusion in strongly anisotropic media

An unstructured mesh �nite volume discretisation method for simulating di�usion in anisotropic media in two-dimensional space is discussed. This technique is considered as an extension of the fully implicit hybrid control-volume �nite-element method and it retains the local continuity of the ux at the control volume faces. A least squares function recon- struction technique together with a new ux decomposition strategy is used to obtain an accurate ux approximation at the control volume face, ensuring that the overall accuracy of the spatial discretisation maintains second order. This paper highlights that the new technique coincides with the traditional shape function technique when the correction term is neglected and that it signi�cantly increases the accuracy of the previous linear scheme on coarse meshes when applied to media that exhibit very strong to extreme anisotropy ratios. It is concluded that the method can be used on both regular and irregular meshes, and appears independent of the mesh quality.