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This Special Issue publishes the latest advances and developments concerning the modelling of flooding in urban areas and contributes to our scientific understanding of the flooding processes and the appropriate evaluation of flood impacts. This issue contains contributions of novel methodologies including flood forecasting methods, data acquisition techniques, experimental research in urban drainage systems and/or sustainable drainage systems, and new numerical and simulation approaches in nine papers with contributions from over forty authors.

machine learning --- flash flood --- GIS --- Iran --- decision trees --- ensemble techniques --- manhole flooding --- urban flooding --- grid-based modeling --- SWWM --- FIRM --- pollutant transport --- hydraulic structures --- urban drainage --- CFD --- dual drainage --- Iber --- SWMM --- hazard --- artificial neural network --- resilient backpropagation --- multistep urban flood forecast --- demographic change --- urbanization --- flooding --- drainage system --- vulnerability --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Antananarivo --- parameterised power-linear model --- hyper concentration --- dilute concentration --- suspended sediment transport --- flood --- sediment size parameter --- rouse number --- mean concentration --- flow depth --- urban flood modeling --- porosity --- shallow-water model --- urban flood management --- flood forecasting --- weather radar --- integrated hydraulic modeling --- and evacuation lead time --- n/a

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Climate and anthropogenic changes impact the conditions of erosion and sediment transport in rivers. Rainfall variability and, in many places, the increase of rainfall intensity have a direct impact on rainfall erosivity. Increasing changes in demography have led to the acceleration of land cover changes in natural areas, as well as in cultivated areas, and, sometimes, in degraded areas and desertified landscapes. These anthropogenized landscapes are more sensitive to erosion. On the other hand, the increase in the number of dams in watersheds traps a great portion of sediment fluxes, which do not reach the sea in the same amount, nor at the same quality, with consequences on coastal geomorphodynamics. This book is dedicated to studies on sediment fluxes from continental areas to coastal areas, as well as observation, modeling, and impact analysis at different scales from watershed slopes to the outputs of large river basins. This book is concentrated on a number of keywords: “erosion” and “sediment transport”, “model” and “practice”, and “change”. The keywords are briefly discussed with respect to the relevant literature. The contributions in this book address observations and models based on laboratory and field data, allowing researchers to make use of such resources in practice under changing conditions.

proglacial channels --- watershed --- practice --- modeling --- reservoirs --- degradation --- rill development --- Mediterranean Maghreb Basin --- urban drainage system --- fluvial erosion --- Wadi Mina --- Algeria --- sewer systems --- climate change --- phosphorus --- complex morphodynamics --- incipient deposition --- riverbed --- limiting tractive force --- ruptures --- runoff --- flooding --- soil loss --- suspended sediment --- sedimentation --- sediment --- transfer --- erosion --- specific degradation --- soil erosion --- Xihe River Basin --- water fluxes --- sediment fluxes --- environmental change --- field measurements --- dynamical downscaling --- mixed-size bed material --- two-phase flow --- agriculture --- sloping flume experiments --- mitigation measures --- bed load transport --- shear stress --- flow discharge --- GSD --- shear Reynolds number --- Anthropocene --- human activities --- deposition --- sediment delivery --- soil slurry --- SMBA Dam --- bedload transport --- aggradation --- Czech Republic --- sediment transport --- self-cleansing --- erosion topography --- CCHE1D --- sediment retention --- SWAT model --- migration --- water quality modelling --- hillside reservoirs --- erosion modelling

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The rapid urbanization, sometimes lacking adequate planning and design, has led to worsening city syndrome situations, such as urban flooding, water pollution, heat island effects, and ecologic deterioration. Sponge city construction have become the new paradigm for a sustainable urban stormwater management strategy. Deviating from the traditional rapid draining approach, the new paradigm calls for the use of natural systems, such as soil and vegetation, as part of the urban runoff control strategy. It has become a widespread focus in urban water management research and practices globally. In this Special Issue reprint, there are 13 original scientific articles that address the different related urban runoff control issues. We are happy to see that all papers presented findings characterized as innovative and methodologically new. We hope that the readers can enjoy and learn deeply about urban runoff control and sponge city construction using the published material, and we hope that sharing of the researches results with the scientific community, policymakers and stakeholders can prompt the urban runoff control and sponge city construction globally.

urban runoff remediation --- Talipariti tiliaceum --- modular bioretention tree --- field study --- tree-pit --- Green-Ampt method --- infiltration --- overland flow --- urban flood modelling --- 1D/2D coupled modelling --- dual drainage modelling --- extreme rainfall --- flooding --- safety criteria --- urban drainage --- uncertainty --- combined sewer overflows --- optimization --- SWMM --- NSGA-III --- sponge city --- bioretention facility --- rain infiltration --- slope stability --- urban water management --- drainage function --- permeable pavement --- biological retention --- control-oriented model --- urban drainage system --- real-time optimization --- Simuwater --- Sponge City --- aquifer recharge --- urban stormwater --- green infrastructure --- low impact development --- Sustainable Development Goals --- non-point source pollution --- enhanced dephosphorization bioretention --- modified bioretention facility --- road stormwater runoff --- combined soil filter media --- soil moisture conservation rope --- microbial diversity --- urban stormwater runoff management --- field monitoring --- ABC Waters design features --- water quality --- bioretention --- swales --- low-impact development --- pilot exploration --- systematic demonstration --- construction scale --- stakeholders --- multifunctional decision-making framework --- cost-effectiveness --- site suitability --- stakeholders’ preference --- n/a --- stakeholders' preference

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The Special Issue on Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks (UWNs) explores four important topics of research in the context of UWNs: asset management, modeling of demand and hydraulics, energy recovery, and pipe burst identification and leakage reduction. In the first topic, the multi-objective optimization of interventions on the network is presented to find trade-off solutions between costs and efficiency. In the second topic, methodologies are presented to simulate and predict demand and to simulate network behavior in emergency scenarios. In the third topic, a methodology is presented for the multi-objective optimization of pump-as-turbine (PAT) installation sites in transmission mains. In the fourth topic, methodologies for pipe burst identification and leakage reduction are presented. As for the urban drainage systems (UDSs), the two explored topics are asset management, with a system upgrade to reduce flooding, and modeling of flow and water quality, with analyses on the transition from surface to pressurized flow, impact of water use reduction on the operation of UDSs, and sediment transport in pressurized pipes. The Special Issue also includes one paper dealing with the hydraulic modeling of an urban river with a complex cross-section.

History of engineering & technology --- drainage network --- climate change --- rehabilitation --- optimization --- SWMM --- drainage networks --- flooding --- multi-objective optimization --- water network partition --- genetic algorithm --- hydraulic --- water quality --- actions --- asset management --- ANN --- prediction --- performance --- water utility --- water system --- NSGA-II --- GIS modeling --- leakage management --- urban water network management --- valve closing algorithm --- web 2.0 --- total suspended solids --- in-situ --- erosion --- sedimentation --- pressure pipe --- sewage --- water distribution systems --- pipe bursts --- hydraulic transients --- real-time control --- machine learning --- sediment transport model --- numerical simulation --- advection-dispersion equation --- water distribution networks --- transmission mains --- pump as turbine --- energy recovery --- hydropower --- multi-objective --- water consumption --- chaos theory --- local approximation --- Kelowna --- gene expression programming --- trapezoidal stretch --- transition stretch --- culvert --- open channel --- hydraulic factors --- sewer design --- stochastic sewer modelling --- wastewater quality --- household discharge --- reduced water consumption --- flow regime transition --- finite volume methods --- numerical oscillations --- numerical viscosity --- Preissmann slot model --- hydraulic simulation --- water demand --- emergency scenario --- intermittent water supply --- water management --- WaterGEMS software --- pressure control --- leakage reduction strategies --- water distribution system modeling --- urban drainage system modeling --- emergency scenarios --- leakage --- demand --- energy --- sediment transport

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The Special Issue on Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks (UWNs) explores four important topics of research in the context of UWNs: asset management, modeling of demand and hydraulics, energy recovery, and pipe burst identification and leakage reduction. In the first topic, the multi-objective optimization of interventions on the network is presented to find trade-off solutions between costs and efficiency. In the second topic, methodologies are presented to simulate and predict demand and to simulate network behavior in emergency scenarios. In the third topic, a methodology is presented for the multi-objective optimization of pump-as-turbine (PAT) installation sites in transmission mains. In the fourth topic, methodologies for pipe burst identification and leakage reduction are presented. As for the urban drainage systems (UDSs), the two explored topics are asset management, with a system upgrade to reduce flooding, and modeling of flow and water quality, with analyses on the transition from surface to pressurized flow, impact of water use reduction on the operation of UDSs, and sediment transport in pressurized pipes. The Special Issue also includes one paper dealing with the hydraulic modeling of an urban river with a complex cross-section.

History of engineering & technology --- drainage network --- climate change --- rehabilitation --- optimization --- SWMM --- drainage networks --- flooding --- multi-objective optimization --- water network partition --- genetic algorithm --- hydraulic --- water quality --- actions --- asset management --- ANN --- prediction --- performance --- water utility --- water system --- NSGA-II --- GIS modeling --- leakage management --- urban water network management --- valve closing algorithm --- web 2.0 --- total suspended solids --- in-situ --- erosion --- sedimentation --- pressure pipe --- sewage --- water distribution systems --- pipe bursts --- hydraulic transients --- real-time control --- machine learning --- sediment transport model --- numerical simulation --- advection-dispersion equation --- water distribution networks --- transmission mains --- pump as turbine --- energy recovery --- hydropower --- multi-objective --- water consumption --- chaos theory --- local approximation --- Kelowna --- gene expression programming --- trapezoidal stretch --- transition stretch --- culvert --- open channel --- hydraulic factors --- sewer design --- stochastic sewer modelling --- wastewater quality --- household discharge --- reduced water consumption --- flow regime transition --- finite volume methods --- numerical oscillations --- numerical viscosity --- Preissmann slot model --- hydraulic simulation --- water demand --- emergency scenario --- intermittent water supply --- water management --- WaterGEMS software --- pressure control --- leakage reduction strategies --- water distribution system modeling --- urban drainage system modeling --- emergency scenarios --- leakage --- demand --- energy --- sediment transport