Feifei Zheng

TL;DR: In this article, the presence of dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge along the Australian coastline using the most extensive observational records of rainfall and Storm surge events currently available was investigated, showing that the two processes must be considered jointly if flood risk is to be quantified correctly.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared three classes of statistical methods (threshold-excess, point process, and conditional) in terms of their ability to quantify flood risk, and concluded that the point process method is the most suitable approach for modeling dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge when the dependence is relatively strong, while none of the three methods produces satisfactory results for bivariate extremes with very weak dependence.

TL;DR: An innovative parameter-adaptive strategy for ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms based on controlling the convergence trajectory in decision space to follow any prespecified path, aimed at finding the best possible solution within a given, and limited, computational budget.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review on the transient flow research for urban water supply system (UWSS) management is presented, which consists of two aspects as follows: the first aspect is about the development and progress of current transient theory, including transient flow models, unsteady friction and turbulence models, and numerical simulation methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel optimization approach for the least-cost design of looped water distribution systems (WDSs) is proposed, where three distinct steps are involved in the proposed optimization approach.