Optimal design of urban drainage networks

A Palumbo, L Cimorelli, C Covelli… - Civil Engineering and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a general procedure for the optimal design of urban drainage networks is
proposed taking into account realistic technical constraints and the management cost of the …

Optimal location and setting of PRVs in WDS for leakage minimization

C Covelli, L Cozzolino, L Cimorelli… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Springer
Water loss is an issue that affect Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) very often, especially
when aged and high pressure occurs. Pressure reduction valves (PRVs) can be used as …

Reduction in water losses in water distribution systems using pressure reduction valves

C Covelli, L Cimorelli, L Cozzolino… - Water Science and …, 2016 - iwaponline.com
Water loss is a phenomenon frequently observed within water distribution systems (WDSs),
that is considerably worsened by an excessive pressure throughout the network. As an …

Optimal positioning and sizing of detention tanks within urban drainage networks

L Cimorelli, F Morlando, L Cozzolino… - Journal of Irrigation …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
The present work describes a procedure for the evaluation of the optimal number, position,
configuration, and sizes of detention tanks in urban drainage networks, to decrease the …

A re-parameterized and improved nonlinear Muskingum model for flood routing

O Bozorg Haddad, F Hamedi, H Orouji… - Water resources …, 2015 - Springer
The nonlinear form of the Muskingum model has been widely applied to river flood routing.
There are four variants of the nonlinear Muskingum model based on alternative formulations …

A new methodology for the optimal design of series of pipes in sewer systems

N Duque, D Duque, J Saldarriaga - Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2016 - iwaponline.com
The sewer network design problem consists of determining both the layout and the hydraulic
design of the system. This paper aims to find an optimal hydraulic design for a specific layout …

Comparison among resilience and entropy index in the optimal rehabilitation of water distribution networks under limited-budgets

L Cimorelli, F Morlando, L Cozzolino… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Springer
The replacement of existing pipes is a strategy for the rehabilitation of water distribution
networks that is frequently adopted by water companies. Usually, the optimal choice of the …

Evaluation of the structure of urban stormwater pipe network using drainage density

J Lee, G Chung, H Park, I Park - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
In mega cities such as Seoul in South Korea, it is very important to protect the cities from
surface flooding even for a short time period due to the enormous economic damage. That is …

Analytical solutions of the linearized parabolic wave accounting for downstream boundary condition and uniform lateral inflows

L Cimorelli, L Cozzolino, R Della Morte… - Advances in water …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, new analytical solutions of the linearized parabolic approximation (LPA) of the
De Saint Venant equations (DSVEs) are derived for the case of finite channel length. The …

GA–GHCA model for the optimal design of pumped sewer networks

M Rohani, MH Afshar - Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
In this paper, a hybrid model, GA–GHCA, composed of the genetic algorithm (GA) and the
general hybrid cellular automata (GHCA) is proposed for the efficient and effective optimal …