Water resources systems

Abstract

The past four years have seen various statistical and optimization‐simulation modeling techniques of increased quality and usefulness developed and applied to water resources system design and operating problems. Older modeling approaches continue to be improved and newer methods continue to be developed for the comprehensive analysis of larger complex problems. What distinguishes the last four years from the past is the major increase in the number of successful and useful applications of these mathematical modeling techniques. If success can be measured by the impact models have on our understanding and management of hydrologie or water resource systems, then any review of the recent literature (especially of the proceedings of various symposia and conferences on this subject) will demonstrate that these methods of analyses have matured and are being successfully used throughout the world.

Functional Topology of Evolving Urban Drainage Networks

“…Early engineering studies on infrastructure networks focused on cost‐optimal design solutions, maintaining efficient operations, and reliable (stable) provision of services to meet customer demands, guided by fail‐safe engineering design principles within regional limitations such as demography, geology, and topography under budgetary and regulatory constraints (Cantarella & Vitetta, ; Froise & Burges, ; Harremoës & Rauch, ; Loucks, ; Türker, ; Ukkusuri et al, ). More recently, urban infrastructure has been examined from network theory perspectives, both as individual complex networks (Diao et al, ; Masucci et al, ; Porse & Lund, ; Porta et al, ; Rosvall et al, ; Yazdani & Jeffrey, ) and also as interdependent complex networks (Chan & Dueñas‐Osorio, ; Morris & Barthelemy, ).…”

Evaluation of hydrological variabilities of water quality models considering event-based scenarios: A case study

“…EU is another statistical tool that can quantify whether the data generated by the Monte Carlobased method statistically follows the normal distribution by applying a t-test (Loucks, 1979). The EU metric is typically used to expand the confidence level in the uncertainty estimation results.…”

Optimizing the Operation of a Multiple Reservoir System in the Eastern Nile Basin Considering Water and Sediment Fluxes

“…Incorporating optimization techniques into a simulation model has proven to be a useful approach for the analysis of complex river basin systems (Loucks, 1979;Loucks & Van Beek, 2005;Rani & Moreira, 2010;R. A. Wurbs, 1993).…”