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    Preface

    Claudia Adduce, Mário J. Franca in Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2018)

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    Simulated Annealing in Optimization of Energy Production in a Water Supply Network

    In water supply systems, the potential exists for micro-hydropower that uses the pressure excess in the networks to produce electricity. However, because urban drinking water networks are complex systems in wh...

    Irene Samora, Mário J. Franca, Anton J. Schleiss… in Water Resources Management (2016)

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    Turbulence in Rivers

    The study of turbulence has always been a challenge for scientists working on geophysical flows. Turbulent flows are common in nature and have an important role in geophysical disciplines such as river morphol...

    Mário J. Franca, Maurizio Brocchini in Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environment… (2015)

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    Dynamics of the head of gravity currents

    The present work experimentally investigates the dynamics of unsteady gravity currents produced by lock-release of a saline mixture into a fresh water tank. Seven different experimental runs were performed by ...

    Helena I. S. Nogueira, Claudia Adduce, Elsa Alves… in Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2014)