Advances in Hydrological, Hydraulic and Morphodynamic Modelling
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2026 | Viewed by 360
Editor
Interests: stormwater management; stochastic hydrology; flood modelling in the natural and built environment; nature based flood management; long-term sediment dynamics in green infrastructure; sustainable integrated water management in the cities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites high-quality research contributions that advance the state of knowledge in hydrological, hydraulic, and morphodynamic modelling, with a particular emphasis on sustainable, data-driven, and computationally enhanced approaches. Papers should explore innovative modelling techniques, new analytical frameworks, and emerging applications that support resilient water management and climate-adapted infrastructure planning.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Sustainable and integrated catchment management: Modelling methods that support holistic watershed planning, nature-based solutions, and multi-objective optimisation for water quantity and quality.
- Green infrastructure: Representation and performance assessment of green infrastructure systems through integrated hydrological, hydraulic and morphodynamic models, including their role in enhancing urban resilience and mitigating flood risk.
- Stormwater management: Novel modelling approaches for urban drainage systems, low-impact development, and hybrid grey–green stormwater networks.
- Hydrological extremes and GEV flood-frequency analysis: Applications of Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) distributions for at-site and regional flood frequency analysis, non-stationary flood-frequency methods, and probabilistic frameworks for extreme event characterisation under climate change.
- Advances in hydraulic modelling: High-performance and cloud-based computational approaches, real-time simulation capabilities, improved representation of complex flow processes, and integration of big data.
- Morphodynamic modelling: Advances in modelling long-term sediment transport, erosion–deposition processes, river and coastal morphology, and interactions between flow dynamics and sediment systems.
This Special Issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary work that supports next-generation water management strategies, strengthens predictive capability, and enhances the robustness of modelling tools used by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Dr. Sangaralingam Ahilan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrological modelling
- hydraulic modelling
- morphodynamic modelling
- green infrastructure
- integrated catchment management
- stormwater management
- GEV distribution
- flood frequency analysis
- cloud com-puting
- sediment transport
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