4th IAHR Young Professionals Congress
   22-24 November 2023 | Online

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Day 1 | Wednesday 22 November 2023

13:00 - 13:30 | Opening of the 4th IAHR YP Congress

Philippe Gourbesville, IAHR President

Michael Nones, Chair of the Organising Committee of the 4th IAHR Young Professionals Congress

David Ferras, Chair of the IAHR Technical Committee on Education and Professional Development and Task Force for Young Professionals Development

Qian Yu, IAHR Council Young professional regional representative

Wada Patella, IAHR Council Young professional regional representative

13:30 - 14:00 | Keynote "Bridging Large Language Models and Earth Sciences: The Dawn of ChatGPT Era" by Ehsan Foroumandi 

Chairs: Gonzalo García-Alén Lores and Arianna Varrani

14:00 - 15:30 | Session on Climate Change Adaptation I and Coffee Break with mentors

Chairs: Natalia García Estevez and Kenichiro Kobayashi

Hosts: Qian Yu and David Ferras

• Portugal's Heatwaves: Trends and Regional Variations (1980-2021) Espinosa Luis Angel, Moreira Freitas Laryssa, Portela Maria Manuela

• Assessing Crop Yield Response to Compound Hydroclimatic Extremes in Arid Region Kochar Ruchit, Aadhar Saran

• Impact of Climate Change on Hydroclimatic Extremes in Brahmaputra River under 2 and 3 degree celcius global warming level Gupta Rishi, Chembolu Vinay

• Exploring water stress on urban trees for the period 2012–2021 in the city of Braunschweig, Germany, through numerical simulations Riedel Ramona, Hoermann Vera, Gillefalk Mikael, Ozgen-Xian ilhan

• River flow changes with river regulation and climate change and effects on a nationally important wetland ecosystem in semi-arid Australia Kreibich Jan, Bino Gilad, Kingsford Richard

• Flexible adaptation strategies for coastal infrastructures in an uncertain climate Fernandez Alberto

• Harmonizing Knowledge, Risk and Consensus in Sustainable Development: clashing epistemic conceptions in the case of Mphanda Nkuwa hydroelectric project, Mozambique Ossani Luca

• Wavelet analysis and the Information Cost Function Index for selectiopn of calibration events for flod simulation Jam-Jalloh sheik Umar, Liu Jia, Wang Vicheng

• Seasonal Uncertainty Analysis of Global Climate Models and Implications for Climate Change Impact Assessment in South Korea Mona Ghafouri-Azar, Lee Sang-Il

15:30 - 17:00 | Session on Climate Change Adaptation II and Coffee Break with mentors

Chairs: José Adriasola and Manousos Valyrakis

Hosts: Qian Yu and David Ferras

• Vulnerability to climate change in the design of breakwater armour elements Ocana Karina, Virrueta Sanchez Karla Monserrat, Mendoza Grande Manuel, Ramirez Xicotencatl Rodolfo

• Analysis of Future Precipitation Patterns during dry Season in the Piura River Basin under Different Climate Change Scenarios Figueroa Curo Andres, Rau Pedro

• Ocean processes-based modeling: The key pathway for coastal erosion predictions under climate change Pang Tianze

• Navigating Future Climate Impact on Cedar River's Water Quality: A Coupled Model Investigation of Turbidity and Eutrophication Yasir Abduljaleel, Salem Ali, Amen Ehab Mohammad, Ali Zana Fattah, Amiri Mustapha

• ERA5-Land Data Versus Ground Data: Precipitation at Four Locations in Portugal Freitas Laryssa, Portela Maria Manuela, Espinosa Luis Angel, Matos Jose

• Global Trends in Wave Height in Western Mediterranean Sea Carboni Andrea, Andrea Sulis, Serreli Silvia

• Morphological response of the Chikugo River to climate change events Phyu Pan Ei, Azhikodan Gubash, Yokoyama Katsuhide

• Innovative stormwater management by urban trees: case of the SenseCity experimental device Zime Yerima Hayath Manou

• Assessing climate change impacts on hydrological dam safety with a stochastic rainfall generator Enrique Soriano, Petroselli Andrea, Luciano De Luca Davide, Apollonio Ciro, Grimaldi Salvatore, Mediero Luis

17:00 - 18:30 | Groundwater Hydraulics and Management and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs: Alberto Guadagnini, Mi Lin and Gabriela Calderón

Hosts: Arianna Varianni and Ingrid Silva

• An   approach for evaluating climatic responses and water balance dynamics in a   northern Peruvian oasis    Mariana   Macarachvili, Chiara Manassero, Pedro Rau    

• Modeling water   flow in the vadose zone    Never Mujere,   Ebenezer S Makarati    

• Groundwater   level prediction using MIMO-LSTM    Muhammad Usman,   Muhammad Waqar, Charles, Wang Wai NG    

• Quantifying   the groundwater potential and quality using GIS, electrical resistivity and   well data    Imran Aziz Tunio    

• Effect of TRH   on nitrate removal from groundwater using corn cob as carbon source    Graciela Cecilia   Sánchez Hidalgo, Euclides Deago, María de Los Ángeles Ortega    

• Evaluation of   the repeatability capacity of temperature measurements in heated fiber optics   for quantifying soil moisture content at the laboratory scale    Luis Eduardo   Bertotto, Alan Reis, Dimaghi Schwamback, Érick R. O. Cobalchini, José   Gescilam S. M. Uchôa, Rubens Takeji A. A. Martins, Edson Cezar Wendland    

18:30 - 20:00 | Coastal & Maritime Hydraulics and Coffee break with mentors

Chairs: Andrea Sulis and Ali Pourzangbar

Hosts: Emanuele Quaranta and Ingrid Silva

• Salinity  Dynamics of Aghien Lagoon under Anthropogenic Influence and Climate Change     Bi Sehi Antoine Goe    

• Simulation of the tidal   circulation in the Gulfs of Patras and Corinth system (Greece): A preliminary   study    Alexandra Aspioti, Nikolaos   Fourniotis    

• Numerical   modelling simulation on a Sicilian shallow coastal lagoon    Emanuele Ingrassia, Carmelo Nasello, Giuseppe Ciraolo

• Digital   profiler based on 3D-scanning to measure damages in Homogeneous Low-Crested   Structures    Sergio Muñoz-Palao,   Jorge Molines, Pilar Díaz-Carrasco, M. Esther Gómez-Martín, Josep R. Medina    

• Modelling   tsunami propagation in converging channels    Chen Zhiwen, Valentin   Heller, Riccardo Briganti    

• Mobile bottom   model to determine the impact of climate change on a beach profile    Karina Ocaña, Karla   Monserrat Virrueta Sánchez, Cindy Casas Valencia, Manuel Mendoza Grande,   Rodolfo Ramírez Xicotencatl, Iván Arjona Catzmin    

• XBeach   Parameter Study of Barrier Island Evolution Under Different Storm Conditions    Atefeh Alipour    

• A study on salinity intrusion of Ashtamudi estuary during pre-monsoon period.  Nandana JS, Megha   Chandana L, K Vidyalashmi, Priya K L, Gubash AZHIKODAN, Katsuhide Yokoyama    

• Testing Iber   software as a swallow water model of the hydrodynamic conditions in a coastal   lagoon    Bartolomé Morote   Sánchez, José María Carrillo, Javier Gilabert, Francisco López Castejón    

• Finding   Near-Equilibrium Morphology in Macro Tidal Estuary    Hamzah Suharyanto    

• Large eddy simulation of the inclined dense jet over a sloped bottom    Xinyun Wang,   Abdolmajid Mohammadian    

Day 2 | Thursday 23 November 2023

13:00 - 14:30 | Hydraulic Structures & Urban Drainage and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs: Stefan Felder, Manfred Kleidorfer and Duruo Huang

Hosts: Emanuele Quaranta and Eva Fenrich

• Two-dimensional numerical simulation of a sharp-crested free-falling jet in FLOW 3D Alicia Ros-Bernal, José M. Carrillo, Juan T. García, Luis G. Castillo

• Hybrid modeling to determine the discharge coefficient of a river lateral intake Miguel Antezana, Mauricio Romero, Galo Muñoz, Marcelo Heredia, Andres Gonzales

• Innovative multifunctional flood defense barriers at the Mekong Delta Estuaries Duc Thanh Nguyen, Hong Son Truong, Hai Trung Le

• Use of image processing technique to study evolution of breach at upper part of earth-fill homogeneous dam and comparison with results of Gauss area formula Merve Okan, Aslı Bor, Emre Dumlu, Mehmet Sukru Guney, GOKMEN TAYFUR

• Void ratio effect on interception efficiencies of continuous transverse grate inlets Cumhur Ozbey

• Oxygenation at Sharp Crested Weirs Ashwini Tiwari, Rupak Kumar, Anshuman Thapliyal, K.S. Hari Prasad, C.S.P. Ojha

• Microplastics discharged from urban drainage system: Prominent contribution of sewer overflow pollution Yuxuan Zhou, Yiping Li

• Ponds implementation in a Mediterranean city to prevent urban flooding Luma Gabriela Fonseca Alves, Nuwan Sameera Rankiralage, Agnes Nolitha Khungwayo, Chathurika Priyadarshani

• Urban Flood Defence Strategies: SuDS Solutions in Querataro, Mexico Martina Altana, Sulis Andrea, Sanna Gianfranc

14:30 - 16:00 | Fluid Mechanics and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs: Claudia Adduce and Rita Carvalho

Hosts: Arianna Varianni and Michael Nones

• Estimation of time-varying mean velocity in highly accelerating unsteady flows Gopichand Malasani, Venu Chandra, Murali Kantharaj

• Towards an efficient multiphase flow model for impulsive wave generation by a subaerial landslide: preliminary validation results Novan Tofany, Mochammad Raja Jaefant Alphalevy

• The Effects of a Model Vegetation On a Flow Behind a Sudden Drop in Step: Application in Tsunami Mitigation Ben Hong, James Arthur

• Experimental and Numerical Simulations of Colliding Gravity Currents Samuel Ukpong Okon, Zhiguo He, Yanan Chen, Fangzhou Shen

• Numerical and Physical Modelling of a bottom outlet stilling basin without impact element Ángel Gassó

• Numerical modelling of hydraulic rams for pumped storage Sherifa Cohen, Ghislain O. Lungudi, David Ferras, SABER Nasraoui, Capucine Dupont, Sergio G. Salinas-Rodriguez, Maria D. Kennedy

• Characterization of Large-Scale Turbulence Horizontal Coherent Structures in Ice-Covered Flows Cristopher Gamboa Monge

• Experimental Analysis For Transient-based Leakage Detection in Pressurised Flows Bovic Mirindi Biciribinja, SABER Nasraoui, Ferras David, Saroj Sharma

• Power optimization of a very low head double-regulated Kaplan turbine for micro hydropower applications Emanuele Quaranta, Carlo Grosso Nicolin, Maurizio Previati

16:00 - 17:30 | Fluvial Hydraulics and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs. Nadia Penna and Donatella Termini

Hosts: Arianna Varianni and Manish Pandey

• Entropy-Based Two-Dimensional Velocity Distribution for Open Channel Flows Gurpinder Singh, Rakesh Khosa

• Lagrangian coherent structures in the flow around a bridge pier with scour hole Murali Krishnam Raju Kalidindi, Rakesh Khosa

• Modelling Fluvial Flows at Confluence of Thoubal River and Itok Stream With Rapidly Varying Hydraulic Geometry due to Sand-Gravel Mining ukesh kumar Yadav, Gunadas Singh Keisam, Bipinchandra Maisnam, Victoria Ningthoujam, Jitender Kushwaha

• Estimation of local scour around submerged angled spur dikes under ice cover Guowei Li, Jueyi Sui

• Determination and Prediction of Critical Suction Velocity for Efficient Sediment Removal through Hydro-Suction Akash Jaiswal, Zulfequar Ahmad, Surendra kumar MIshra

• Non-hydrostatic turbulent modelling of hydraulic jumps using a variational approach Francisco Nicolás Cantero-Chinchilla, Óscar Castro-Orgaz

• Scour around riprap protected piers: a numerical assessment of the effect of bed roughness Antonija Harasti, Gordon Gilja, Valyrakis Manousos
  

• Experiments on Formation of 3D Dunes Sree Sai Prasad Bodapati, Venu Chandra
  

• Solid particle movement simulation in a quiescent container based on Discrete Element Method using CFDEM Seyyedmahdi Ostadhosseyni, Abdolmajid Mohammadian, Abolghasem Pilechi

17:30 - 19:00 | Hydraulics & Ecohydraulics and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs: Michele Mossa, Daniel Hayes and Andre St-Hilaire

Hosts. Emanuele Quaranta

• Continuous measurement of river flow and flow direction using a new generation of underwater acoustic tomography system Mohamad Basel ALSAWAF, Kiyosi Kawanisi, Masoud Bahreinimotlagh

• Study on Aeration Efficiency of Gabion Weir KM Luxmi, Nand Kumar Tiwari, Subodh Ranjan Vajesnayee

• Effect of Hydro-generator Rotor Eccentricity on Unbalanced Magnetic Pull Jiwen Zhang, Huang Xingxing, Wang Zhengwei

• Design and Construction of a Cross-Flow Turbine Rotor Fabricated with Recycled Polymers David Aray, Estefania Tineo

• An experimental study on the ability of aquatic vegetation to trap plastic in rivers Giovanni Di Lollo, Claudia Adduce, Maria Rita Maggi, Luca Gallitelli, Massimiliano Scalici, Beatrice Trombetta

• Effects of fortnightly environmental parameters on Etsu (Coilia nasus) catch in the Chikugo river estuary, Japan Vishal Singh Rawat, Gubash Azhikodan, Katsuhide Yokoyama

• Turbulence Distribution in an Open Channel Flow with Submerged Flexible Canopy Harioum Gautam, Zulfequar Ahmad, Pramod Kumar Sharma

Day 3 | Friday 24 November 2023

13:00 - 14:30 | Hydroinformatics and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs. Gabriele Freni and David Vicente

Hosts: Arianna Varianni and Manish Pandey

• Development of Riverbank Erosion Warning System for Braided River Muhammad Muktadir Hussain, Israt Jahan Nijum, Anup Bhowmik, Nazmul Islam Ananto, Fardin Anam Aungon, Showvik Biswas

• Application of neural networks for stratification modeling in shallow lakes Sebestyén Török, Péter Torma

• FloodSformer: Transformer-based surrogate model for real-time forecasting of inundation maps Matteo Pianforini, Susanna Dazzi, Renato Vacondio, Andrea Pilzer

• HydroCompute: An Open-Source Web-Based Computational Library for Hydrology and Environmental Sciences Carlos Erazo Ramirez, Yusuf Sermet, Ibrahim Demir

• Enhancing hydrological predictions in the Tahtali River Basin: A multi-model ensemble approach leveraging machine learning algorithms Umut Kirdemir

• Numerical models of aquatic vegetation: A brief analysis of the research scenario, from 1980 to 2022. Taís Yamasaki

• Prediction of water quality parameters in reservoirs through the use of satellite images and Machine Learning models Laura Caceres Jimenez, Jorge Rodríguez-Chueca, David Vicente González

• Lagrangian particle-tracking model in SERGHEI Pablo Vallés, Mario Morales-Hernández, Volker Roeber, Daniel Caviedes-Voullième, Pilar García-Navarro

14:30 - 16:00 | Flood Risk Management and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs: Stefan Haun & Daniela Molinari

Hosts: Gaetano Crispino and José María Carrillo

• Identification of Flood Extent for Panataran River, Kampung Melangkap, Sabah, Malaysia Rosdianah Ramli, Janice Lynn Ayog

• Analysis of the influence of the design hyetograph shape on flood hydrographs. Daniel Carril, Luis Mediero

• Evaluation of mudflow and debris flow hazard in the Los Incas basin of the city of Arequipa - Perú Joel Ccanccapa Puma

• Exploring Flood Zone Width Pprediction Using Multi-objective Evolutionary Polynomial Regression: a Rideau Canal Analysis Mohammad Uzair Anwar Qureshi, Antony Dussel, Isa Ebtehaj, Hossein Bonakdari

• Hydrological Flood Vulnerability Mapping using GIS and Satellite Imagery Data: A Case Study in Eastern Ontario, Canada Emma-Christie Kameleu Noubissié, Amir Noori, Hossein Bonakdari

• A model to account for the within-event evolution of flood damage: insights from a case study in northern Italy Tommaso Lazzarin, Andrea Defina, Daniele P. Viero

• High-Dimensional Multivariate Analysis of Compound Flooding in Estuaries: A Case Study in Santoña, Spain DINA VANESSA GOMEZ RAVE

• Integrated Spatial Risk Assessment and Monitoring of GLOF, Sheshnag Lake Md Atik Nawaz, Sakshi Verma

16:00 - 17:30 | Water Resources Management I and Coffee break with mentors 

Chair: Carlos Galvao and Angelos Alamanos

Hosts: Gonzalo García-Alén Lores and Emanuele Quaranta

• Analyzing Reservoir Sedimentation Trends and Forecasting the Future Using Brune's Curve: A Case Study of Hirakud Reservoir, Eastern India Subhasri Sarkar

• Evaluating the Geospatial Variability of Sedimentary and Hydrodynamic Factors in the Ashtamudi Estuary Megha R Raj, Krishnapriya K, Hisana N, Keerthy Ramesh, Febina A Manaf, Priya K L, Gubash AZHIKODAN, Katsuhide Yokoyama

• Influence of Covid-19 pandemic on plastic debris accumulation in Astamudi estuary Beema Mussafina MN, NAVYA PRASAD A, SHANA S GEORGE, NOURIN FATHIMA R, SARITHA PADIYEDATH GOPALAN, Priya K L, Gubash AZHIKODAN, Katsuhide Yokoyama

• Sustainable water supply governance under water privatization concerns in Greece Angelos Alamanos

• The inequalities in water scarcity in Northwest China Dan Dai, Angelos Alamanos

• Potential of infiltration ponds as Managed Aquifer Recharge method to address water stress in lowland meso-scale catchment Muhammad Haris Ali, Ioana Popescu, Andreja Jonoski, Dimitri Solomatine

• Application of Fayalite Scoria (FS) as an adsorbent for the attenuation of toxic divalent copper from industrial wastewater: Batch Kinetics, Reusability studies Gobusaone Mokokwe, Topoyame Makoi

• Integrated Water and Sanitation Safety Planning for Small Communities in Jordan: The Case Study of Princess Eman Housing Mohammad Shakkour, Maha Halalsheh, Sudeh Dehnavi

• Quantifying the groundwater potential and quality using GIS, electrical resistivity and well data. Imran Aziz Tunio, Sheeraz Ahmed Memon, Habibullah Abbasi, Love Kumar, Habib Ursani

• Standardising Integrated Water Resources Management: The WASH Basins Toolkit trial in Kajiado County, Kenya Freya Scott, Zac Smith, Eva Craig, Judy Murithi, Kennedy Omwaka, Sachin Tiwari

17:30 - 19:00 | Water Resources Management II and Coffee break with mentors 

Chairs: Angelos Alamanos and Carlos Galvao

Hosts: Gonzalo García-Alén Loresand Gaetano Crispino

• Assessing the understanding of ChatGPT on Water Hammer and Pressure Surges Muhammad Waqar

• Drought Susceptibility Assessment and Mapping through Remote Sensing and GIS in an Eastern Region of Ontario, Canada Aissatou Diallo, Amir Noori, Hossein Bonakdari

• GIS and Remote Sensing Application for Soil Moisture Evaluation: A Case Study of Central Ottawa Basin, Ontario, Canada Kadijatou Jallow, Amir Noori, Hossein Bonakdari

• Analyzing temporal discharge distribution in a Tidal River confluence Nay Oo Hlaing, Gubash AZHIKODAN, Katsuhide Yokoyama

• Efficacy of Psidium guajava Leaves Composites in adsorbing Microplastics from Waste Water Megha R Raj, Keerthy Remesh, K Vidyalashmi, Sarath S S, Priya K L, Noufal Komby Abdulla

• Isotopic characterization of Groundwater and Identification of Recharge Mechanism In Urban Area of Kozhikode district, Kerala, India Ravi Ande, Anuradha Tumma

• Prediction of Energy Dissipation of Nappe Flow by Using Machine Learning Approach Ritusnata Mishra, Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha

• Relationship between turnover and bottom dissolved oxygen in a deep reservoir from 1993-1996 Ghazaleh Kheiri, Maurice Duka, Gubash AZHIKODAN, Katsuhide Yokoyama

• Contribution of natural and anthropogenic factors on groundwater variation in Northwestern Rajasthan Varun Desai, Krushna Tekale, Saran Aadhar

19:00 - 19:15 | Closing session

Michael Nones, Chair of the Organising Committee 

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