Network Structure Optimization Method for Urban Drainage Systems Considering Pipeline Redundancies

A Review of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems Considering the Climate Change and Urbanization Impacts

Climate change and urbanization are converging to challenge city drainage infrastructure due to their adverse impacts on precipitation extremes and the environment of urban areas. Sustainable drainage systems have gained growing public interest in recent years, as a result of its positive effects on water quality and quantity issues and additional recreational amenities perceived in the urban l...

Novel method for looped pipeline network resolution

It is proposed a novel method to solve looped pipeline network problems that seeks to deal with limitations of the available methods The problem is modeled as a nonlinear system of equations formed by equations that cannot be solved sequentially, characterizing the resolution as a simultaneous-modular procedure. The equations of the system are the differences between the final pressure of the p...

Modeling Dynamic Production Systems with Network Structure

This paper deals with the problem of optimizing two-stage structure decision making units (DMUs) where the activity and the performance of two-stage DMU in one period effect on its efficiency in the next period. To evaluate such systems the effect of activities in one period on ones in the next term must be considered. To do so, we propose a dynamic DEA approach to measure the performance of su...

Integral optimization of spare parts inventories in systems with redundancies

In this paper, we analyze spare parts supply for a system with a “k-outof-N” redundancy structure for key components, different standby policies (cold, warm and hot standby redundancy) and local spare parts inventories for sub-components. We assume multiple part types (sub-components) that fail randomly with exponentially distributed interfailure times. Due to the standby policies and the limit...

Probabilistic runoff volume forecasting in risk-based optimization for RTC of urban drainage systems