August 2025: Another paper published by our team at MDPI Water, led by Bruno Sousa, on the application of GSSHA to represent the dynamics of shallow groundwater levels at coastal Alabama, Evaluating Distributed Hydrologic Modeling to Assess Coastal Highway Vulnerability to High Water Tables. Thanks again for the support from the NOAA/NCCOS program!
August 2025: New paper at the Journal of
Environmental Management led by Bruno Sousa, on the application of a
data-driven approach to quantify the dynamics of shallow groundwater levels at
coastal Alabama, Conceptual data-driven approach for analyzing the
vulnerability of coastal roadways to groundwater level changes. Thanks for
the support from the NOAA/NCCOS program.
July 2025: Yichen Tao led the development of a paper published in the Journal of Hydrology focusing on how spatiotemporal variability impacts the development of pressurized flow conditions, with an application for San Francisco, CA. Impacts of rainfall spatiotemporal variability on pressurized flow conditions in urban drainage systems. We are thankful for the support of NSF/CIS, which has funded this collaborative research.
April 2025: Revisiting one of the most traditional
hydrological approaches to represent peak flow predictions – The Rational
Method – to represent the effects of dissimilar land uses. Reformulating the
Rational Method Considering Dissimilar Land Use Types. Published at the
ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.
January 2025: A paper led by Vitor Geller is
published at the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, focusing of the dynamics
of mixed flow. Evaluating SWMM Modeling Performance for Rapid Flows on
Tunnels with Geometric Discontinuities. We are thankful for the support of NSF/CIS, which has funded this collaborative research.
November 2024: A conference paper led by V. d. Meulenhof focusing on AMFI created by rapid air release in manholes and dropshafts: Tilting Manhole Cover: A Nonlinear Spring-Mass System. ASME Pressure
Vessels and Piping Conference
September 2024: A paper led by Wei He is published at the Elsevier Water Science and Engineering, focusing on the asymmetric filling of below-grade tunnels applying CFD of mixed flow. Evaluating SWMM Modeling
Performance for Rapid Flows on Tunnels with Geometric Discontinuities.
February 2024: New paper at the ASCE Journal of
Hydraulic Engineering studying the characteristics of how stormwater system
pressurization evolves in space and time in conditions of complex topologies: Evolution
and characterization of pressurized flow conditions in stormwater collection
networks. We are thankful for the support of NSF/CIS, which has funded this collaborative research.