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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,339 Views
11 Pages

An Analytical Solution to the 1D Drainage Problem

  • Konstantinos Kalimeris and
  • Leonidas Mindrinos

14 October 2025

We derive an analytical solution to the one-dimensional linearized Boussinesq equation with mixed boundary conditions (Dirichlet–Neumann), formulated to describe drainage in porous media. The solution is obtained via the unified transform metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soliton Theory and Integrable Systems in Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,377 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2023

Crystalline blockages in mountain tunnel drainage systems are becoming a common environmental problem. Considering the lack of research on the influence degree of the factors affecting crystalline blockages in mountain tunnel drainage systems, this p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geological Disaster Forecast and Prevention for Tunneling and Underground Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,053 Views
20 Pages

Urban Drainage Networks Rehabilitation Using Multi-Objective Model and Search Space Reduction Methodology

  • Ulrich A. Ngamalieu-Nengoue,
  • Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey and
  • F. Javier Martínez-Solano

The drainage network always needs to adapt to environmental and climatic conditions to provide best quality services. Rehabilitation combining pipes substitution and storm tanks installation appears to be a good solution to overcome this problem. Unf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Infrastructure Asset Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,900 Views
26 Pages

An Optimistic Solver for the Mathematical Model of the Flow of Johnson Segalman Fluid on the Surface of an Infinitely Long Vertical Cylinder

  • Naveed Ahmad Khan,
  • Fahad Sameer Alshammari,
  • Carlos Andrés Tavera Romero,
  • Muhammad Sulaiman and
  • Seyedali Mirjalili

16 December 2021

In this paper, a novel soft computing technique is designed to analyze the mathematical model of the steady thin film flow of Johnson–Segalman fluid on the surface of an infinitely long vertical cylinder used in the drainage system by using art...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Methods in Material and Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,240 Views
24 Pages

Search Space Reduction for Genetic Algorithms Applied to Drainage Network Optimization Problems

  • Leonardo Bayas-Jiménez,
  • F. Javier Martínez-Solano,
  • Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey and
  • Daniel Mora-Meliá

22 July 2021

In recent years, a significant increase in the number of extreme rains around the world has been observed, which has caused an overpressure of urban drainage networks. The lack of capacity to evacuate this excess water generates the need to rehabilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Calculation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,048 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Control Strategy and Model of Gas-Drainage Parameters in Coal Seam

  • Tongqiang Xia,
  • Jianhang Lu,
  • Zilong Li,
  • Hongfei Duan,
  • Hongyun Ren,
  • Zhuangzhuang Zhang and
  • Yantai Zhang

28 July 2022

For a long time, the serious mismatch between negative pressure and drainage parameters of underground gas drainage has been the main reason for the standing engineering problems in coal mines, such as low gas drainage concentration, fast decay, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,282 Views
21 Pages

Drainage pipes are a critical component of urban infrastructure, and their safety and proper functioning are vital. However, haze problems caused by humid environments and temperature differences seriously affect the quality and detection accuracy of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Image Processing and Computer Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,617 Views
20 Pages

The Law of Liquid–Solid Carrying in the Wellbore of Natural Gas Hydrate Gas Well under the Condition of Foam Drainage Gas Recovery

  • Haitao Li,
  • Na Wei,
  • Haiyu Hu,
  • Zhaolong Ge,
  • Lin Jiang,
  • Fengjun Liu,
  • Xiaoran Wang,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Hanming Xu and
  • Bjørn Kvamme
  • + 1 author

2 March 2023

During the trial production of marine gas hydrate in the former Soviet Union, Canada, North Slope of Alaska, South Sea Trough of Japan and Shenhu Sea of South China Sea, the problem of sand and water production cannot be avoided. The problems of sand...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,093 Views
22 Pages

An Innovative Approach for Drainage Network Sizing

  • Luca Cozzolino,
  • Luigi Cimorelli,
  • Carmine Covelli,
  • Carmela Mucherino and
  • Domenico Pianese

6 February 2015

In this paper, a procedure for the optimal design of rural drainage networks is presented and demonstrated. The suggested approach, exploring the potentialities offered by heuristic methods for the solution of complex optimization problems, is based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Drainage Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,872 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of the Laboratory Degradation Performance of a Straw Drainage Board

  • Runtian Zhu,
  • Yinqiang Su,
  • Cankun Wu,
  • Wei Yuan and
  • Yongfeng Deng

7 December 2022

Plastic drainage boards are installed into the foundation as vertical drainage channels in vacuum preloading projects. After construction, numerous plastic drainage boards are left in the foundation, causing not only white pollution but also potentia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art of Geosynthetic Engineering for Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
557 Views
17 Pages

11 March 2026

To address the challenges of water hazard control in the thick water-rich sandstone aquifer of the roof under monoclinal structure conditions at Panel 110504 of Wangwa Coal Mine, as well as the problems of excessive ineffective drainage and high cost...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,112 Views
24 Pages

Transverse drainage pipe, one of the main channels of groundwater behind the lining of subway tunnels, plays an important role in the safety and stability of the tunnel lining structure. For the problem of blocked transverse drainage pipe in a subway...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,017 Views
10 Pages

Postoperative fluid collection (POFC) is a challenging complication following pancreatobiliary surgery. Traditional treatment with surgical drainage is associated with significant morbidity, while percutaneous drainage is associated with a higher rat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges in Pancreatobiliary Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,635 Views
12 Pages

Borehole Protection Technology of Screen Pipes for Gas Drainage Boreholes in Soft Coal Seams

  • Shengquan He,
  • Shengnan Ou,
  • Fengxiang Huang,
  • Longzhe Jin,
  • Yanran Ma and
  • Tuo Chen

4 August 2022

In this paper, research was carried out on borehole protection technology using screen pipes, aiming to address the problems of gas drainage borehole collapse and low gas drainage efficiency in soft coal seams, which have low gas permeability and hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,417 Views
12 Pages

17 May 2024

Drainage water management (DWM), also known as controlled drainage (CD), is one of the edge-of-field strategies mainly designed to reduce the nitrate load from subsurface drainage systems. By limiting runoff, we also increase local retention, contrib...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,004 Views
13 Pages

29 September 2022

The gas drainage effect is one of the important elements in the study of gas drainage in coal mines. It is critical to establish an effective evaluation model of the gas drainage effect for coal mines because the result of gas drainage is directly re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mining and Emergency Prevention and Control)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,970 Views
27 Pages

Evolution of the Materials and Methods Used for Subsurface Drainage of Agricultural Lands from Antiquity to the Present

  • Stavros I. Yannopoulos,
  • Mark E. Grismer,
  • Khaled M. Bali and
  • Andreas N. Angelakis

21 June 2020

Agricultural drainage plays an important role worldwide in food production and conservation of soil resources, while safeguarding investments in agricultural production and irrigation projects. It can improve crop yields and land productivity, especi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Subsurface Drainage and Water-Saving Irrigation in Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
963 Views
11 Pages

8 October 2020

Not so long ago, due to the great shortage of irrigation water, Egypt on the national level, began to mix (in a certain percentage) raw agricultural drainage water with fresh irrigation water. This mix was for enhancing its quality to be compatible w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,797 Views
17 Pages

Assessing the Efficiency of Rainstorm Drainage Networks Using Different Arrangements of Grate Inlets

  • Ismail Fathy,
  • Gamal M. Abdel-Aal,
  • Maha Rashad Fahmy,
  • Amira Fathy,
  • Martina Zelenakova,
  • Hany F. Abd-ElHamid,
  • Jakub Raček and
  • Ahmed Moustafa A. Moussa

31 January 2024

Urban flooding is a problem faced by most countries because of climate change. Without storm drainage systems, negative impacts may occur, such as traffic problems and increasing groundwater levels, especially in lowlands. The implementation of storm...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,180 Views
34 Pages

Advancements in Drainage Consolidation Technology for Marine Soft Soil Improvement: A Review

  • Zhongxuan Chen,
  • Junwei Shu,
  • Sheng Song,
  • Luxiang Wu,
  • Youjun Ji,
  • Chaoqun Zhai,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Xianghua Lai

11 October 2025

Marine soft soils are characterized by high compressibility, low strength, and low permeability, which often result in excessive settlement and stability problems. Drainage consolidation methods are widely regarded as effective solutions for improvin...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,849 Views
17 Pages

Standardizing Criteria for Calculating Urban Storm Drainage Flow Rates Using Basin Division Based on Aerial Photogrammetry: The Case Study of Culiacan, Mexico

  • Guadalupe Yuceli Sánchez-Núñez,
  • Sergio Arturo Rentería-Guevara,
  • Jesús Gabriel Rangel-Peraza,
  • Sergio Alberto Monjardín-Armenta,
  • Antonio Jesús Sanhouse-García and
  • Zuriel Dathan Mora-Felix

15 November 2023

Urban storm drainage is fundamental for the well-being of the population of cities with torrential rainfall regimes because it is essential for the rapid and safe disposal of stormwater runoff. However, it is not uncommon for hydrological studies to...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,652 Views
17 Pages

20 November 2022

Different types of deep-hole blasting techniques are needed to solve gas drainage problems in complex and variable cases. Blasting parameters suitable for mines are selected based on the relationship between blast stress field changes and gas flow co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,697 Views
16 Pages

Experimental Investigation of Crystal Blocking in Drainage Pipes for Tunnels in the Karst Region

  • Chongbang Xu,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Yunxuan Yang,
  • Pengfei Li,
  • Siqing Wang and
  • Lei Li

28 October 2022

Crystal blockage of tunnel drainage pipes is one of the main causes of problems such as lining cracking and water leakage. The study of the crystal development rule is of great significance for the design of tunnel drainage systems and the long-term...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Rock Mass Engineering: Excavation, Monitoring, and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
17,501 Views
17 Pages

1 March 2023

Urban drainage infrastructures are facing critical challenges due to a lack of integrated asset management, periodic maintenance, improper design, and construction methodologies. The objective of this study is to understand the urban drainage challen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Sewer System Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,907 Views
12 Pages

2 September 2024

The rainfall drainage characteristics of urban areas result in more surface runoff compared to soil surfaces. Conventional Urban Drainage Systems, CUDs, have disadvantages when managing this surface runoff, leading to urban water circulation issues s...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,757 Views
15 Pages

2 October 2021

Korea experiences increasing annual torrential rains owing to climate change and river flooding. The government is expanding a new drainage pump station to minimize flood damage, but the river level has not been adjusted because of torrential rains....

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,889 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2024

Various hydrogeological problems like groundwater inflow, water table drawdown, and water pressure redistribution may be encountered in the construction of hydraulic projects. How to accurately predict the occurrence of groundwater inflow and assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,933 Views
13 Pages

Free Discharge of Subsurface Drainage Effluent: An Alternate Design of the Surface Drain System in Pakistan

  • Muhammad Ali Imran,
  • Jinlan Xu,
  • Muhammad Sultan,
  • Redmond R. Shamshiri,
  • Naveed Ahmed,
  • Qaiser Javed,
  • Hafiz Muhammad Asfahan,
  • Yasir Latif,
  • Muhammad Usman and
  • Riaz Ahmad

6 April 2021

In Pakistan, many subsurface (SS) drainage projects were launched by the Salinity Control and Reclamation Project (SCARP) to deal with twin problems (waterlogging and salinity). In some cases, sump pumps were installed for the disposal of SS effluent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,835 Views
12 Pages

28 April 2017

Small vegetated drainage ditches play an important role in water and nutrient removal, but may cause water blocking problems. The aim of this study was to investigate vegetated drainage ditches’ hydraulic and wetland hydraulic characters. Field exper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Management within Inland River Watershed)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,420 Views
14 Pages

Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Biliary Drainage in Malignant Distal Biliary Obstruction

  • Danilo Paduano,
  • Antonio Facciorusso,
  • Alessandro De Marco,
  • Andrew Ofosu,
  • Francesco Auriemma,
  • Federica Calabrese,
  • Ilaria Tarantino,
  • Gianluca Franchellucci,
  • Andrea Lisotti and
  • Benedetto Mangiavillano
  • + 2 authors

12 January 2023

Malignant biliary obstruction (MBO) is a challenging medical problem that often negatively impacts the patient’s quality of life (QoL), postoperative complications, and survival rates. Endoscopic approaches to biliary drainage are generally per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Palliation of Gastrointestinal Tumors with Lumen Apposing Metal Stents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,871 Views
26 Pages

17 October 2024

Soil erosion is one of the most significant problems in global environmental development. Assigning, analyzing, and quantifying the main physical characteristics of drainage basins are powerful keys in identifying regions where there is a higher risk...

(This article belongs to the Section Hazards and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,100 Views
21 Pages

Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Effect of Stormwater Inlet Blockage on Urban Waterlogging

  • Weiwei Guo,
  • Mingshuo Zhai,
  • Xiaohui Lei,
  • Haocheng Huang,
  • Yan Long and
  • Shusen Li

17 July 2024

The drainage capacity of stormwater inlets, which serve as the connection between the surface and the underground drainage system, directly affects surface runoff and the drainage capacity of underground drainage systems. However, in reality, stormwa...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,310 Views
17 Pages

Irrational use and management of water and land are associated with poor hydro-geological conditions causing water logging and salinization problems, possibly leading to farmland abandonment and economic loss. This poses a great challenge to the sust...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,672 Views
12 Pages

24 April 2022

Urban waterlogging has risen to be an urgent problem awaiting solutions in China these years, and “infiltration”, “storage”, and “drainage” are considered the major and most direct measures against this problem. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Water Security and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,366 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2019

Urban drainage pipe networks have complex spatial contributions, andthey are now facing problems such as damage, defects, and aging. A rapid and high-precision pipe inspection strategy is thekey to ensuring thesustainable development of urban water s...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,542 Views
8 Pages

Research of Sustainable Use of Tire Shreds in Landfill

  • Kristina Bazienė and
  • Rasa Vaiškūnaitė

8 August 2016

Studies are on-going to establish the suitability of tire shreds in the landfill bottom drainage layer, to minimize clogging. Four experimental columns were constructed in which were 500 mm long and 200 mm in diameter. They were filled with different...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,464 Views
7 Pages

12 January 2021

Twin pregnancies are undesirable in dairy cattle as they dramatically compromise cow lifespan and, consequently, herd economy. Clinical problems in cows arise from the time of pregnancy diagnosis to pregnancy loss, abortion, or parturition. The drain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Therapeutics of Twin Pregnancies in Dairy Cattle)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,313 Views
23 Pages

The hydraulic performance of woven geotextiles is frequently overlooked in roadway design, despite their extensive use for reinforcement applications. Woven geotextiles are typically manufactured from hydrophobic polymers such as polypropylene or pol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical and Biochemical (THMBC) Characterization and Modelling of Unsaturated Soils)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,481 Views
23 Pages

8 November 2020

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided interventions provide easy access to structures adjacent to the gastrointestinal tract, effectively targeting them for therapeutic purposes. They play an important role in the management of pancreatic fluid collecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pancreato-Biliary Interventional Endoscopy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,678 Views
16 Pages

3 November 2023

The development and expansion of underground space has led to a continuous increase in both the occupied area and the burial depth of underground basements. Meanwhile, due to the inaccurate estimation of groundwater buoyancy, more and more anti-float...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,334 Views
40 Pages

5 August 2025

The level of participation and performance of water user associations (WUAs) in drained and irrigated areas is influenced by many factors. This paper aims to identify the main challenges to the functioning and performance of these associations in Pol...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,163 Views
21 Pages

11 November 2019

Low-flow quantiles at ungauged locations are generally estimated based on hydrological methods, such as the drainage area ratio and frequency analysis methods. In practice, the drainage area ratio approach is a popular but simple linear model. When h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Meteorological and Hydrological Droughts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,338 Views
23 Pages

Urban Flood Model-Driven Optimization of Flood Control and Drainage Engineering Solutions

  • Yunning Liu,
  • Wenbin Zang,
  • Baoqi Li,
  • Fuxin Chai and
  • Xunping Liu

4 June 2025

With the rapid advances of global climate change and urbanization, urban flooding is causing greater losses. Existing urban flood control and drainage engineering design standards are often applied to single projects. This paper proposes a set of urb...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,184 Views
13 Pages

6 May 2023

In order to solve the current problems that conventional video inspection can only detect, as an internal pipeline defect and drainage pipeline radar inspection device detects in a single direction and at radar frequency in water pipeline defect dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,424 Views
19 Pages

Thermal Insulation, Antifreeze, and Anti-Drainage Technology for Tunnels in the Cold Area of Jinpen Bay

  • Tu Ha,
  • Shengjun Liu,
  • Libin Lin,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Hongwei Zhang,
  • Lijun Sun and
  • Xuemin Zhao

There are a large number of tunnels built in permafrost regions every year in China. When investigating the road tunnels that have been in operation in cold regions, it was found that most of these tunnels have various freezing damages. Therefore, in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leading-Edge in Computational Methods for Tunnelling and Underground Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,312 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Changing the Shape and Size of Inlet Area of Grates on the Hydraulic Efficiency of Urban Rainstorm Drainage Systems

  • Ismail Fathy,
  • Gamal M. Abdel-Aal,
  • Maha Rashad Fahmy,
  • Amira Fathy,
  • Martina Zeleňáková,
  • Hany F. Abd-Elhamid and
  • Mohamed A. Nassar

18 August 2022

Urban rainstorm drainage systems are used to collect the surface runoff from streets and other land surfaces through grate or curb openings that convey it to the drains. The quantity of surface runoff that is not discharged to the urban rainstorm dra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Supply System (WSS) Reliability, Safety and Risk Modelling & Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,270 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Simulation Study of High-Pressure Air Injection to Promote Gas Drainage

  • Wenjie Xu,
  • Xigui Zheng,
  • Cancan Liu,
  • Peng Li,
  • Boyang Li,
  • Kundai Michael Shayanowako,
  • Jiyu Wang,
  • Xiaowei Guo and
  • Guowei Lai

22 October 2022

Coal-accompanying gas is an essential resource, with numerous mining methods. The practice has proved that injecting high-pressure air into the coal seam can replace and flush the gas in the coal seam, effectively solving the problem of inadequate si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prevention and Control of Coal Mine Gas Disasters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,370 Views
19 Pages

Wheat Crop Yield and Changes in Soil Biological and Heavy Metals Status in a Sandy Soil Amended with Biochar and Irrigated with Drainage Water

  • Mohieyeddin M. Abd El-Azeim,
  • Ahmad M. Menesi,
  • Mahmoud M. Abd El-Mageed,
  • Joanna Lemanowicz and
  • Samir A. Haddad

19 October 2022

The current research aims to study the impacts of adding corncob biochar to a sandy soil irrigated with drainage water on wheat productivity, heavy metals fate, and some soil properties that reflect healthy soil conditions. This research consists of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cropping System Impact on Soil Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,169 Views
16 Pages

22 November 2019

With the popularization and development of drip irrigation under film, the problem of secondary soil salinization in Xinjiang is becoming more and more serious. To explore water and salt transport in drip irrigation under mulch and drainpipe drainage...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,736 Views
20 Pages

Research on 3D Defect Information Management of Drainage Pipeline Based on BIM

  • Fan Huang,
  • Niannian Wang,
  • Hongyuan Fang,
  • Hai Liu and
  • Gaozhao Pang

17 February 2022

With the age of pipeline and increase in the volume of urban sewage, the pipeline has different degrees of defects, which can cause safety problems such as road collapse and urban flooding. The service life of drainage pipes is closely related to dai...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

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