Determinación de eventos de diseño de funciones bivariadas usando el método de bisección.

This paper deals with the calculation of a set of inflow and volume values for several return periods for the hydrometric station Huites, Sinaloa, Mexico, by means of the numerical closed and open methods to find the roots for an equation; in this case the bisection algorithm and the Secant method, respectively. The bivariate distribution function for the analyzed variables was a two population Gumbel whose parameters were obtained in a previous research by using a genetic algorithm. The bisection algorithm showed to be the most efficient in estimating volume, resulting in a useful tool which allowed for the estimation of the design events with relative simplicity and could be applied in functions of random variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]