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Reza Aghlmand and Ali Abbasi
Increasing water demands, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, continuously exacerbate groundwater resources as the only reliable water resources in these regions. Groundwater numerical modeling can be considered as an effective tool for sustainable...
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Dario Autovino, Vincenzo Alagna, Cristina Bondì and Massimo Iovino
Green roofs can be a valid solution for stormwater management in urban environments. The objective of this study was to develop a laboratory procedure for the hydraulic characterization of artificial substrates, used in the realization of green roofs, ba...
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Elias Tasca, Mohsen Besharat, Helena M. Ramos, Edevar Luvizotto, Jr. and Bryan Karney
Air valves are protective devices often used in pressurised water pipelines, ideally admitting air to limit sub-atmospheric pressures and controlling the release of entrapped air. This work summarises a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of the transient...
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Gerard Lods and Delphine Roubinet
Subsurface and groundwater flow characterization is of great importance for various environmental applications, such as the dispersion of contaminants and their remediation. For single-hole flowmeter measurements, key characteristics, such as wellbore st...
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Pedro Leite Ferreira and Dídia Isabel Cameira Covas
The current paper aims at assessing the effect of the radial mesh on the description of the axial velocity in steady-state and transient conditions and at presenting the results of a new optimized equal-area mesh. For this purpose, a quasi-2D model is im...
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Jarrett Wise, Sherry Hunt and Mohammed Al Dushaishi
With the majority of the United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS)-sponsored earthen dams exceeding their planned service life, seepage is a concern since it is a common failure mechanism among earthen dam...
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Weidong Cao, He Wang, Xinyu Yang and Xinyi Leng
The methodologies of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and response surface method (RSM) were integrated to uncover the optimal correlational framework for intricate hydraulic geometric parameters of guide vane centrifugal pumps. Parameters such as blad...
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Hiyaw Hatiya Ware, Tarekegn Dejen Mengistu, Bisrat Ayalew Yifru, Sun Woo Chang and Il-Moon Chung
Recharge is a crucial section of water balance for both surface and subsurface models in water resource assessment. However, quantifying its spatiotemporal distribution at a regional scale poses a significant challenge. Empirical and numerical modeling a...
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Wei Zeng, Chao Wang and Jiandong Yang
Hydraulic systems may involve both pipelines and open channels, which challenges the hydraulic transient analysis. In this paper, a method of characteristics (MOC)-finite volume method (FVM) coupling method has been developed with the pipeline modelled u...
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Asif Ahmed and Sahadat Hossain
Due to the representation of a particular field condition of soil rather than the real time scenario from laboratory experiments, the selection of unsaturated permeability and flow parameters becomes challenging when conducting numerical modeling. Keepin...
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