Toward applying automatic control to assist coastal land-water management in the Mekong Delta

Effective coastal land management often translates to the livelihood of its local inhabitant. This challenge is especially important in developing nations. In this paper, we report our effort toward using automatic control to aid the coastal land-water management issues in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The report focuses on augmenting the governing dynamics of the existing VRSAP simulation of the MK Delta hydrology such that it would be manageable by a feedback control loop. Steady state linearization and analysis of the governing equations takes into account lateral input. The lateral input is given dynamical properties having effect on water flow and level.