Advances in Control and Automation of Water Systems

Introduction A Numerical Exploration of Transient Decay Mechanisms in Water Distribution Systems Mathematical Modeling of Hydraulic Transients in Simple Systems Modeling One- and Two-Phase Water Hammer Flows Water Hammer and Hydrodynamics' Instability Hydraulic Flow Control in Binary Mixtures An Efficient and Accurate Shock-Capturing Scheme for Modeling Water Hammer Flows Applied Hydraulic Transients: Automation and Advanced Control Improved Numerical Modeling for Perturbations in Homogeneous and Stratified Flows Computational Model for Water Hammer Disaster Heat and Mass Transfer in Binary Mixtures: A Computational Approach

Kaveh Hariri Asli, PhD, is a professional mechanical engineer with over 30 years of experience in practicing mechanical engineering design and teaching. He is author of over 50 articles and reports in the fields of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, automation, and control systems. Dr. Hariri has consulted for a number of major corporations. Faik Bahman Oglu Nagiyev holds a MSc in mechanics and mathematics from Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), a PhD in mathematics and physics from Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) and Doctor of Sciences in mathematics and physics from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (Leningrad, Russia). He is the author over 100 articles, two books, and more than 200 analytical reports and projects on fundamental and applied studies in hydro-mechanics and thermal physics of multiphase media, mathematics, research studies in oil and gas sphere, power-engineering and technological complexes, education and sciences. He is member of several international societies and a Leading Research Officer of Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Republic. Reza Khodaparast Haghi is a mechanical engineer and is currently in the postgraduate program of Advanced Control Systems at University of Salford, Manchester (UK). Hossein Hariri Asli is a professional civil engineer. His research areas are in re-engineering of urban system design for water and wastewater resources, networks, transmission pipelines, and treatment plant.