Over the last decade, evolutionary and meta-heuristic algorithms have been extensively used as search and optimization tools in various problem domains, including science, commerce, and engineering. Their broad applicability, ease of use, and global perspective may be considered as the primary...

A review is provided for the recently published book “Water Quality Modelling for Rivers and Streams” by Marcello Benedini and George Tsakiris, Springer, Water Science and Technology Library Series, Vol. 70, 288p, ISBN 978-94-007-5508-6, 2013. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media...

In this paper a number of hydraulic aspects concerning the flood routing in compound channels are discussed. In particular, attention is firstly focused on the management of boundary conditions for compound channel flow when 1D modelling is used. In this context, the characteristics theory was...