Central Theme

The Congress will focus on 4 central themes.

A. Climate change adaptation and mitigation

• Dam safety
• Urban water systems including blue-green systems and spounge city concepts
• Advanced modelling approaches
• Green transition in hydro-environment engineering
• Urban snow management and cold region hydraulics
• Hydroenvironment
• Snow hydrology and impacts on reservoirs
• Ice research and engineering

B. Water for the energy transition, food security and nature

• Efficient water use and water reuse
• Nature-based solutions for stormwater, greywater and wastewater
• Emerging pollutants
• Wastewater transport and treatment systems
• Enabling transition to the future urban water system
• Legislation
• Social acceptance
• Financial and economic sustainability
• Interdisciplinary approaches
• Food-water-energy nexus
• Ecological flows
• Biodiversity and fish migration
• Restoration
• Surface and groundwater hydraulics and hydrology
• River morphodynamics and sediment transport
• Reservoir sedimentation and sustainable sediment management
• Aquifer recharge and groundwater abstraction
• Dams hydraulic design and case studies

C. Improving resilience against water hazards and disasters

• Decentralization for increased resilience
• Maintenance and asset management
• Preparedness of water and power systems
• Estuarine and coastal dynamics
• Coastal monitoring
• Protection, management and restoration of coastal systems
• Climate-resilient estuaries and coasts
• Ports and waterways design, Marine renewable energy
• Hydraulic design of bridges and protection measures
• Bridge scour and local scour assessment under extreme flows
• Sediment transport and river morphodynamics affecting bridge stability
• Flood risk management and multi-hazard interactions

D. Digital transformation

• Computational methods in fluid dynamics hydroenvironmental problems, sediment dynamics & fluid-structure interactions
• Digital twins and cyber-physical systems – Simulation and hybrid forecasting
• Hydroinformatics
• Data science, machine learning and data analytics
• Big data instrumentation, experimental facilities and field experiments
• Emerging hydraulic measurement technologies and analysis methods
• Modelling and measurements in urban water systems
• Turbomachinery, turbines and pumps
• Design optimization
• Computational and experimental techniques
• Cavitation and multiphase flow
• Real-time monitoring and early-warning systems for bridge scour