Abstract: Thanks to their efficiency and simplicity of contruction, breastshot water wheels represent an attractive low head hydropower converter. In this work, a breastshot wheel is investigated by numerical simulations, and the ...

Abstract: An analysis of the hydraulic behavior of pipe networks often involves imprecise or uncertain quantities. Typical examples of these quantities are the roughness coefficient of old pipes, which becomes increasingly difficult ...

Abstract: Overshot water wheels are hydropower converters generally employed for head differences up to 6 m and maximum flow rates of 150−200  L/s per meter width. The maximum hydraulic efficiency (80%–85%) is constant for ...

Abstract: We derive and discuss the Green’s function of the linearized de Saint-Venant equations (LSVEs) for shallow water waves in channels and rivers. The analysis offers a unified description of previous results on LSVEs regarding, ...

Abstract: A rotary hydrostatic pressure machine (RHPM) is a hydropower converter for very low head applications (less than 2.5 m). An RHPM can be installed in straight canals, because its wheel can generate a hydraulic head as ...

Abstract: This work addresses the issue of recovering the release history of a pollutant injection in water distribution systems through the application of geostatistical tools. Geostatistical tools are applied to the inverse problem ...