Hydraulic Analysis of Biochannels for Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Hydraulic Structures in Urban Drainage Systems

Large hydraulic structures are of major importance to sustained life-support systems and have an impact on the environment. Dams, reservoirs and open canals are such structures, the impact of which has been duly appreciated and addressed in environmental impact assessments and side-effects amelioration programs. Less obvious, but of vital importance, is the impact of urban drainage systems on h...

Contamination of Detained Sediment in Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Adsorption is a key water pollution remediation measure used to achieve stormwater quality improvement in Sustainable urban Drainage Systems (SuDS). The level of contamination of detained sediment within SuDS assets is not well documented, with published investigations limited to specific contaminant occurrence in ponds, wetlands or infiltration devices (bioretention cells) and generally focuse...

Sustainable Drainage Systems

Urban water management has somewhat changed since the publication of The Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) Manual in 2007 [1], transforming from building traditional sewers to implementing SuDS, which are part of the best management practice techniques used in the USA and seen as contributing to water-sensitive urban design in Australia. Most SuDS, such as infiltration trenches, swales, green ...

Particle Swarm Optimization for Hydraulic Analysis of Water Distribution Systems

The analysis of flow in water-distribution networks with several pumps by the Content Model may be turned into a non-convex optimization uncertain problem with multiple solutions. Newton-based methods such as GGA are not able to capture a global optimum in these situations. On the other hand, evolutionary methods designed to use the population of individuals may find a global solution even for ...

Hydraulic conductivity measurment for subsurface drainage system