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In this paper, we propose a data-driven leak localization method for water distribution networks (WDNs) which combines two complementary approaches: graph-based interpolation and dictionary classification. The former estimates the complete…

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Current groundwater models face a significant challenge in their implementation due to heavy computational burdens. To overcome this, our work proposes a cost-effective emulator that efficiently and accurately forecasts the impact of…

This article addresses the pump-scheduling optimization problem to enhance real-time control of real-world water distribution networks (WDNs). Our primary objectives are to adhere to physical operational constraints while reducing energy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Harsh Patel , Yuan Zhou , Alexander P Lamb , Shu Wang , Jieliang Luo

Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical systems for our society and detecting leakages is important for minimizing losses and water waste. This makes optimal sensor placement for leakage detection very relevant. Existing sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

Simulating complex dynamics like fluids with traditional simulators is computationally challenging. Deep learning models have been proposed as an efficient alternative, extending or replacing parts of traditional simulators. We investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jonathan Klimesch , Philipp Holl , Nils Thuerey

Climate change and sea-level rise (SLR) pose escalating threats to coastal cities, intensifying the need for efficient and accurate methods to predict potential flood hazards. Traditional physics-based hydrodynamic simulators, although…

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Cost-effective water distribution network (WDN) design with acceptable pressure performance is crucial for the management of drinking water in cities. This paper presents a Microsoft Excel tool to model, simulate, and optimize WDNs with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Marcus Nóbrega Gomes , Igor Matheus Benites , Salma M. Elsherif , Ahmad F. Taha , Marcio H. Giacomoni

Watershed models such as the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) consist of high-dimensional physical and empirical parameters. These parameters need to be accurately calibrated for models to produce reliable predictions for streamflow,…

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Optimizing fluid-dynamic performance is an important engineering task. Traditionally, experts design shapes based on empirical estimations and verify them through expensive experiments. This costly process, both in terms of time and space,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Yang Chen

Modeling of turbulent flows is still challenging. One way to deal with the large scale separation due to turbulence is to simulate only the large scales and model the unresolved contributions as done in large-eddy simulation (LES). This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Mathis Bode , Michael Gauding , Konstantin Kleinheinz , Heinz Pitsch

Reliable evaluations of geotechnical hazards like landslides and debris flow require accurate simulation of granular flow dynamics. Traditional numerical methods can simulate the complex behaviors of such flows that involve solid-like to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Yongjin Choi , Krishna Kumar

Groundwater resources are one of the most relevant elements in the water cycle, therefore developing models to accurately predict them is a pivotal task in the sustainable resource management framework. Deep Learning (DL) models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Matteo Salis , Abdourrahmane M. Atto , Stefano Ferraris , Rosa Meo

Power system studies require the topological structures of real-world power networks; however, such data is confidential due to important security concerns. Thus, power grid synthesis (PGS), i.e., creating realistic power grids that imitate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mahdi Khodayar , Jianhui Wang , Zhaoyu Wang

Modeling complex physical dynamics is a fundamental task in science and engineering. Traditional physics-based models are sample efficient, and interpretable but often rely on rigid assumptions. Furthermore, direct numerical approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Rui Wang , Rose Yu

Knowing the pressure at all times in each node of a water distribution system (WDS) facilitates safe and efficient operation. Yet, complete measurement data cannot be collected due to the limited number of instruments in a real-life WDS.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Gergely Hajgató , Bálint Gyires-Tóth , György Paál

Traditional 2D hydraulic models face significant computational challenges that limit their applications that are time-sensitive or require many model evaluations. This study presents a physics-informed Deep Operator Network (DeepONet)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Xiaofeng Liu , Yong G. Lai

Most of the two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic/hydrodynamic models are still computationally too demanding for real-time applications. In this paper, an innovative modelling approach based on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Syed Kabir , Sandhya Patidar , Xilin Xia , Qiuhua Liang , Jeffrey Neal , Gareth Pender , .

Numerical simulations on fluid dynamics problems primarily rely on spatially or/and temporally discretization of the governing equation into the finite-dimensional algebraic system solved by computers. Due to complicated nature of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Luning Sun , Han Gao , Shaowu Pan , Jian-Xun Wang

Climate models play a critical role in understanding and projecting climate change. Due to their complexity, their horizontal resolution of about 40-100 km remains too coarse to resolve processes such as clouds and convection, which need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Birgit Kühbacher , Fernando Iglesias-Suarez , Niki Kilbertus , Veronika Eyring

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows is computationally expensive and cannot be applied to flows with large Reynolds numbers. Large eddy simulation (LES) is an alternative that is computationally less demanding, but is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-09 Shengyu Chen , Shervin Sammak , Peyman Givi , Joseph P. Yurko1 , Xiaowei Jia