Development of Tailings Pond Flood Routing Simulation System Based on LabVIEW

Abstract

Flood routing is an important work for tailings ponds to flood control. Although the flood routing method is relatively mature, the manual calculation and parameter selection still remain a major challenge for field engineers. In this study, a program, developed by LabVIEW, is introduced to improve the tailings ponds flood routing calculation. The developed program provides two flood generation calculation methods and four kinds of flood discharge model, which can be applied to any tailings pond and achieves flood routing fast and accurately. An application of Dexing 4# tailings pond is conducted to verify the function of program. The result indicates that the program shows good performance on calculation speed and accuracy.