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Frontiers in Urban Water Infrastructure

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 5169

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Demir

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Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Interests: hydroinformatics; intelligent systems; scientific computing; scientific visualization; data analytics
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Prof. Dr. Marian Muste

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Interests: fluvial hydraulics; hydrometry; non-intrusive measurement instrumentation; information and decision-support system for flood mitigation
Dr. Haowen Xu

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Interests: water resources management; water engineering; water resources engineering; information technology; hydrological modeling; hydraulics; integrated water resources management; watershed hydrology; hydraulic engineering; software engineering

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This highly-urbanized population will face vulnerability to water-related hazards in many ways. Recent extreme events such as flooding, drought, morphologic instabilities, and water pollution combined with the ongoing climate change have severely threatened the security, sustainability, and maintenance of urban water infrastructures, such as water supply, storm drainage, wastewater system, and hydraulic structures. Due to the complex interactions of human activity and the hydrological processes, ensuring urban water security requires comprehensive planning processes that address urban water hazards and sustainable design and management of urban infrastructure using a holistic approach. With the recent advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and better environmental monitoring systems, the planning approach often requires the collection and curation of large amounts of disparate data and reliable data-driven analytics that may be co-evolutionary and integrable to traditional environmental modeling approaches.

This special issue invites articles that present innovative approaches to study the socioeconomic impacts of water-related hazards on urbanization, as well as to improve the design, maintenance, and retrofitting of urban water infrastructure for better urban water security and sustainable management of water resources. Theoretical or empirical or experimental, or data-driven studies are welcomed. Appropriate topics may include but are not limited to: (1) Impacts of water-related hazards on water infrastructures and hydraulic structures, (2) mitigation, adaptation, and infrastructure design and retrofitting strategies for improving the community preparedness and resilience of urban water system, (3) social-technical dimension for integrated water resources management, such as public engagement, education, and collaborative planning, and (4) multi-criteria and multi-objective decision support for the operation and design of urban water system. 

Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Demir
Prof. Dr. Marian Muste
Dr. Haowen Xu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Water is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban water security
  • hazard mitigation
  • integrated water resources management
  • urban water infrastructure
  • hydraulic structure

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Control of Runoff Peak Flow for Urban Flooding Mitigation
by Yunan Lu, Jinli Xie, Cheng Yang and Yinghong Qin
Water 2021, 13(13), 1796; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w13131796 - 29 Jun 2021
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Urban flooding has become a serious but not well-resolved problem during the last decades. Traditional mainstream facilities, such as vegetated roofs, permeable pavements, and others, are effective to eliminate urban flooding only in case of small rains because the water-retaining and detaining capacities [...] Read more.
Urban flooding has become a serious but not well-resolved problem during the last decades. Traditional mainstream facilities, such as vegetated roofs, permeable pavements, and others, are effective to eliminate urban flooding only in case of small rains because the water-retaining and detaining capacities of these traditional facilities are limited. Here, we propose a new buffer tank buried in soil to deal with rainwater onsite as peak-flow control for urban flooding mitigation. Experiments showed that the buffer tank intercepts the surface runoff and discharges the intercepted water through a designed outlet orifice. By properly setting the cross-sectional area of the orifice, the tank extends the drainage duration several times longer than that of the rainfall duration. It is found that the buffer tank attenuates the peak flow greater at heavier rain. At small rain (<2.5 mm), the tank is always unfilled, preserving storage spaces for detaining rainwater in case of heavy rain. The buffer tank is thus greatly helpful to mitigate the flooding problem, avoiding being saturated by small long-lasting rain. Full article
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Seismic Fragility Evaluation of Simply Supported Aqueduct Accounting for Water Stop’s Leakage Risk
by Zhihua Xiong, Chen Liu, Aijun Zhang, Houda Zhu and Jiawen Li
Water 2021, 13(10), 1404; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w13101404 - 18 May 2021
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Due to the demands of booming Chinese cities and the increase in urban residents, the safety of aqueduct water transportation structures is noteworthy. A lot of old aqueducts were built in the 1990s and even earlier in the last century and may become [...] Read more.
Due to the demands of booming Chinese cities and the increase in urban residents, the safety of aqueduct water transportation structures is noteworthy. A lot of old aqueducts were built in the 1990s and even earlier in the last century and may become vulnerable to potential earthquakes. This paper deals with an evaluation of an aqueduct’s seismic vulnerability accounting for leakage risk. Based on the Hua Shigou aqueduct in Ningxia, a probabilistic investigation was carried out to obtain the seismic fragility using Latin hypercube sampling. In the numerical study, the superstructure and substructure of the aqueduct were modeled as beam elements, and the lumped mass method was adopted to simulate the fluid–structure interaction. The rubber water stop’s mechanical performance was studied, and its damage states were proposed. Parametric numerical models were then subjected to a set of ground motions according to incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), which contained probabilistic parameters such as water, concrete strength, and bearing performance degradation. Both the system and component levels of the old aqueduct’s seismic fragility curves were obtained. It was found that the probability of the water stop’s leakage risk is significantly elevated with the increase in ground motion. Full article
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