Lost in optimisation of water distribution systems? A literature review of system design

H Mala-Jetmarova, N Sultanova, D Savic - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Optimisation of water distribution system design is a well-established research field, which
has been extremely productive since the end of the 1980s. Its primary focus is to minimise …

Optimization of potable water distribution and wastewater collection networks: A systematic review and future research directions

W Zhao, TH Beach, Y Rezgui - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Potable water distribution networks (WDNs) and wastewater collection networks (WWCNs)
are the two fundamental constituents of the complex urban water infrastructure. Such water …

Robust optimization of water infrastructure planning under deep uncertainty using metamodels

EHY Beh, F Zheng, GC Dandy, HR Maier… - … Modelling & Software, 2017 - Elsevier
Water resources planning and design problems, such as the sequencing of water supply
infrastructure, are often complicated by deep uncertainty, including changes in population …

Multi-objective optimization of water distribution systems based on a real options approach

J Marques, M Cunha, DA Savić - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper describes a multi-objective optimization model including Real Options concepts
for the design and operation of water distribution networks. This approach is explained …

Generalized resilience and failure indices for use with pressure-driven modeling and leakage

E Creaco, M Franchini, E Todini - Journal of Water Resources …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
In 2000, the resilience and failure indices were introduced as a convenient and compact tool
to express respectively water-distribution network (WDN) surplus and deficit in satisfying …

Water and Environmental Systems Management under uncertainty: from scenario construction to Robust Solutions and Adaptation

MC Cunha - Water Resources Management, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents and discusses concepts, models, and methods for defining strategies,
plans, and actions to achieve the sustainable development of water and environmental …

Flexible water distribution system design under future demand uncertainty

I Basupi, Z Kapelan - Journal of Water Resources Planning and …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
In order to address the issue of water demand uncertainty due to the effect of climate change
and urbanization in the design and management of water distribution systems (WDSs), a …

The combined use of resilience and loop diameter uniformity as a good indirect measure of network reliability

E Creaco, M Franchini, E Todini - Urban Water Journal, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this paper is to show that the combined use of the resilience index (Todini, 2000)
with a loop based diameter uniformity index (here formulated) yields a good indirect …

Many-objective optimization model for the flexible design of water distribution networks

J Marques, M Cunha, D Savić - Journal of environmental management, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a many-objective optimization model for the flexible design of water
distribution networks (WDNs), including four objectives. Two objectives are related to the …

Marginal-cost-based greedy strategy (MCGS): Fast and reliable optimization of low impact development (LID) layout

T Xu, BA Engel, X Shi, L Leng, H Jia, LY Shaw… - Science of The Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cost effectiveness is a major concern when implementing low impact development (LID)
practices for urban stormwater management (USWM). To optimize LID layout, an efficient …