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<em>Water</em> | Highly Cited Papers in 2024 from the &ldquo;Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics&rdquo; Section

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

1 September 2025

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 202416(10), 1408; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16101408
Available online: http://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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(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 202416(22), 3258; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16223258
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/22/3258