Liu, DediMu, ZhenyuWang, Zhenyu2026-01-132026-01-132025Mu, Z., Liu, D., Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., Xiong, L., Chen, J., Chen, H. and Yin, J., 2025. A general chopping peak function for a reservoirs group flood control regulating. Journal of Hydrology, p.133448.10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133448https://hdl.handle.net/10566/21689Flood event is one of the natural hazards and has affected the most people in the world. As the peak of the flood event is the most striking feature to its hazard, chopping flood peak is often the main goal of preventing flood hazard. To integrate the regulation of the flood storages in a reservoirs group for chopping flood peak, a general relationship among the flood events, the flood storages and the chopping peak has been quantified through Chopping Peak Function (CPF). And we have derived the analytical solutions for a single, a parallel or a cascade reservoirs group while numerical solution for a mixed reservoirs group to their corresponding CPF. Based on the solutions to their CPF, the mechanism is clarified for the integrated reservoirs flood storages regulation. The derived analytical solutions have also been proven to be more efficient for integrating the reservoirs regulation than for only every single reservoir regulation. The numerical solutions for the mixed reservoirs groups are found to be better than that of optimal reservoirs regulation model through NSGA-II in terms of the number and the distribution range of the Pareto frontier. Therefore, our study will not only help understand the regulation of the f lood storages in reservoirs groups for chopping flood peak, but also find an efficient way to prevent flood hazard.enChopping flood peakReservoirs groupsGeneral relationshipAnalytical solutionsNumerical solutionsArticle