Abstract: Rainfall forecast errors are the key sources of uncertainty in flood forecasting. To quantify this uncertainty operational flood forecasting centers make use of rainfall forecasts obtained by ensemble predicting systems ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel meta-heuristic approach for real-time flood control. The approach combines model predictive control (MPC) with a reduced genetic algorithm (RGA) to quickly find near-optimal solutions. The main ...

Abstract: Uniaxial confined compression and swelling experiments on cylindrical specimens taken either in an axial or in a radial direction from a canine lumbar annulus fibrosus are presented. The loading ...

Abstract: Model predictive control (MPC) has shown to be an efficient technique for real-time flood control. The evaluation of the control performance is, however, typically restricted to a limited set of flood events. In this paper, ...

Abstract: A novel gas separation process makes use of a rotating phase separator to separate micron-sized droplets from a gas stream. Based on an industrial scale design, a water/air separator is ...