Integrated Modelling of Urban Waterway Systems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 547
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban hydrology and hydraulics; environmental hydraulics; water quality modelling; sediment transport; ecohydraulics; oil spill; green stormwater infrastructure
Interests: hydraulics; environmental fluid mechanics; water quality modelling; sediment transport; computational fluid dynamics applications in environmental fluid mechanics; urban and eco-hydraulics
Interests: hydrology and hydraulics; sediment transport and river morphodynamics; river water quality; archaeohydrology; sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
Urban waterway systems for water supply or for storm and wastewater drainage critically affect the water cycle. Their impact on water quantity (e.g., flooding) and quality (e.g., waterbody contamination) is expected to increase in the coming decades, intertwined with the effects of climate change, also in light of a worldwide increasing trend of urban population. The understanding of urban waterway systems is of crucial importance to address various United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation, SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, and SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Urban waterway systems are complex because they are composed of interacting built and natural systems, and are constantly affected by changes in land use and other external factors, such as the change in extreme rainfall magnitude and frequency driven by climate change as well as the sea level rise in coastal cities.
The quantitative analysis, design, and modification of urban waterway systems therefore require a holistic understanding, based on the integrated numerical modelling of the hydrology, hydraulics, and often water quality of such systems.
We invite contributions presenting novel research or comprehensive reviews on the integrated modelling of urban waterway systems. The themes of interest include but are not limited to:
- Integrated modelling of urban hydrologic/hydraulic processes;
- Integrated modelling of water supply and storm and wastewater drainage;
- Combined sewer overflows;
- Urban river flooding;
- Hydraulic control structures;
- Urban waterway systems operation and management;
- Urban river water quality;
- Sediment transport in urban waterway systems;
- Urban river restoration;
- Design/modification/restoration of urban waterway systems;
- Uncertainty in urban hydrologic and hydraulic modeling;
- Impact of human activities/land use, climate change/sea level rise on urban waterway systems.
Submissions of research or review papers focusing on the integrated modelling of hydrologic and hydraulic processes in urban waterway systems using deterministic, stochastic, physics-based or emerging data-driven techniques are encouraged. Novel approaches based on the combination of field observations with statistical or numerical modeling across different scales are also welcomed.
Dr. Zhenduo Zhu
Dr. Dimitrios K. Fytanidis
Dr. Davide Motta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban waterway systems
- hydrology
- hydraulics
- water quality
- integrated modelling
- numerical modelling
- urban river
- combined sewer overflow
- flooding
- contamination
