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1 September 2025
Water | Highly Cited Papers in 2024 from the “Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics” Section

We invite you to read the highly cited articles published from the “Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics” Section of the journal Water in 2024.
1. “Enhancing Flood Risk Management: A Comprehensive Review on Flood Early Warning Systems with Emphasis on Numerical Modeling”
by Diego Fernández-Nóvoa, José González-Cao and Orlando García-Feal
Water 2024, 16(10), 1408; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16101408
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/10/1408
2. “A Method for Identifying Gross Errors in Dam Monitoring Data”
by Liqiu Chen, Chongshi Gu, Sen Zheng and Yanbo Wang
Water 2024, 16(7), 978; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16070978
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/7/978
3. “Effectiveness of Collars and Hooked-Collars in Mitigating Scour around Different Abutment Shapes”
by Zaka Ullah Khan, Afzal Ahmed, Manousos Valyrakis, Ghufran Ahmed Pasha, Rashid Farooq, Nadir Murtaza and Diyar Khan
Water 2024, 16(17), 2550; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16172550
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/17/2550
4. “A Statistical Prediction Model for Sluice Seepage Based on MHHO-BiLSTM”
by Zihui Huang, Chongshi Gu, Jianhe Peng, Yan Wu, Hao Gu, Chenfei Shao, Sen Zheng and Mingyuan Zhu
Water 2024, 16(2), 191; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16020191
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/2/191
5. “Optimization of Collective Irrigation Network Layout through the Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Multicriteria Analysis Method”
by César González-Pavón, Carmen Virginia Palau, Juan Manzano Juárez, Vicente Estruch-Guitart, Santiago Guillem-Picó and Ibán Balbastre-Peralta
Water 2024, 16(3), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16030370
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/3/370
6. “A Case Study and Numerical Modeling of Post-Wildfire Debris Flows in Montecito, California”
by Diwakar K. C., Mohammad Wasif Naqvi and Liangbo Hu
Water 2024, 16(9), 1285; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091285
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/9/1285
7. “Numerical Investigation of Different Stepped Spillway Geometries over a Mild Slope for Safe Operation Using Multi-Phase Model”
by Binaya Raj Pandey, Megh Raj K C, Brian Crookston and Gerald Zenz
Water 2024, 16(11), 1635; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16111635
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/11/1635
8. “Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Vortex Pump with Various Axial Clearances”
by Ling Zhou, Chuan Zhou, Ling Bai and Ramesh Agarwal
Water 2024, 16(11), 1602; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16111602
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/11/1602
9. “Graph Neural Networks for Sensor Placement: A Proof of Concept towards a Digital Twin of Water Distribution Systems”
by Andrea Menapace, Ariele Zanfei, Manuel Herrera and Bruno Brentan
Water 2024, 16(13), 1835; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16131835
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/13/1835
10. “Enhancing Riverbank Protection along the Jamuna River, Bangladesh: Review of Previous Countermeasures and Morphological Assessment through Groyne-Based Solutions Using Numerical Modeling”
by Md. Zakir Hasan and Yuji Toda
Water 2024, 16(2), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16020297
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/2/297
11. “Downscaling Daily Reference Evapotranspiration Using a Super-Resolution Convolutional Transposed Network”
by Yong Liu, Xiaohui Yan, Wenying Du, Tianqi Zhang, Xiaopeng Bai and Ruichuan Nan
Water 2024, 16(2), 335; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16020335
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/2/335
12. “Deformation and Strength of Unsaturated Loess—Hydraulic Coupling Effects under Loads”
by Hao Chai, Xi’an Li, Biao Qin, Weiping Wang and Mani Axel
Water 2024, 16(7), 997; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16070997
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/7/997
13. “Salinity Intrusion Modeling Using Boundary Conditions on a Laboratory Setup: Experimental Analysis and CFD Simulations”
by Dayana Carolina Chalá, Claudia Castro-Faccetti, Edgar Quiñones-Bolaños and Mehrab Mehrvar
Water 2024, 16(14), 1970; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16141970
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/14/1970
14. “Numerical Analysis of Flow Characteristics and Energy Dissipation on Flat and Pooled Stepped Spillways”
by Umar Farooq, Shicheng Li and James Yang
Water 2024, 16(18), 2600; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16182600
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/18/2600
15. “Lake Trafford Nutrients Budget and Influxes After Organic Sediment Dredging (South Florida, USA)”
by Serge Thomas, Mark A. Lucius, Jong-Yeop Kim, Edwin M. Everham III and Thomas M. Missimer
Water 2024, 16(22), 3258; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16223258
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/22/3258