10:30 - 12:00 CET | Climate Change Adaptation and Coffee Break with mentors

Chairs: Roberto Ranzi and Ramesh Teegavarapu from the IAHR Technical Committee on Climate Change Adaptation

Hosts: Qian Yu and José Carrillo

• Rethinking water vulnerability indicators for adaptive and sustainable water resources management. Attafuah Eunice Efua from University of Auckland, New Zealand.

• Strengthening Disaster Preparedness through Similarity Matching of Typhoons Using Deep Learning and the Large Ensemble Dataset for Policy Decision-making for Future Climate Change: A Case Study of the Chikugo River Basin, Japan. Nguyen Phuoc Sinh from Kyoto University, Japan.

• Comprehensive drought assessment based on the SPEI and its impact on crop production and streamflow in Afghanistan. Ahmad Tamim Samim from Hiroshima University, Japan.

• A GRACE–SMAP Hydrological Drought Index for the Luni River Basin (2015–2025). Pal Surender from India.

• A WebGIS Platform for Simulating and Visualizing Extreme Rainfall, Fire Spread and Soil Erosion. Ojer-García Ignacio from University of Zaragoza, Spain.

• Adapting to the Escalating Climate Crisis in the Mediterranean Region: Updated Evidence from Greece. Serafeim Athanasios V from University of Peloponnese, Patras, Greece.

• Assessment of the hydroecological state of Chukhlomskoye Lake by diatom analysis methods. Khalilova Nika from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

• Capacity planning for hybrid wind-solar-pumped hydro energy systems considering climate change. Cui Yuting from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland.

• Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Zones. Dutta Subhasri from Siksha Anusandhan University, India.

• Flood Modeling of Lower Ogun River Basin using HECRAS. Shodipo Fawaz from Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria.

• Developing climate aridity and water body extent in the UAE using earth observation data and machine learning approaches. Asif Anam, Youngwook Kim from United Arab Emirates University, UAE.

12:00 - 13:30 CET | Climate Change Adaptation II & Groundwater and Coffee Break with mentors

Chair: Ramesh Teegavarapu from the IAHR Technical Committee on Climate Change Adaptation and Lucija Plantak from UNESCO Groudwater Youth Network

Hosts: Arianna Varrani and Isabella Schalko

• Influence of hydrometeorological conditions on methane content and emission in the Ivankovo Reservoir during the summer period. Lada Peshkicheva from Moscow State University, Russia.

• Nature-based solution services promoting local biodiversity, well-being and scalable solutions. Ghannem Syrine from Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

• Response of severe thunderstorm environments in Belgium to Climate Change. Uddin Chowdhury Raihan from Climate Tech and Green Solutions, Bangladesh.

• The features of channel processes on Yamal. Kensovskiy Ivan from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

• Pioneering Wet Scrubber Technology for Climate-Resilient Emission Control in Bangladesh's Garment Industry. Uddin Chowdhury Raihan from Climate Tech and Green Solutions, Bangladesh.

• Vegetation-Specific Precipitation Deficit Indicator for Improved Drought Monitoring under a Changing Climate. Ali Muhammad Haris from Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands.

• Beyond Empirical Models: AI-Driven Approaches for Accurate Infiltration Estimation. Mazighi Amina from École nationale supérieure d'hydraulique de Blida, Algeria.

• Methodology for Life Cycle Analysis in Mexican Ports. Ocaña Karina from Mexican Transport Institute, Mexico.

• Evaluating the impacts of climate warming and sea level rise on typhoon-induced storm surges by 2100. Chai Yujie from University of Ottawa, Canada.

• Flood Impact Analysis on Iowa Bridge Infrastructure through Combined AHP and Fuzzy AHP Approaches. Duran Ege from University of Iowa, USA.

13:30 - 15:00 CET | Hydraulic Structures + Industrial Flow and Coffee Break with mentors

Chairs: Sean Mulligan, Valentin Heller and Jose Carrillo from IAHR Technical Committee of Hydraulic Structures

Hosts: Manish Pandey and Arianna Varrani

• Experimental study on the performance of riprap as scour protection around a vibrating monopile. Zihao Tang from National University of Singapore.

• 3D numerical modeling of the hydraulic jump downstream of a vertical drop structure. Casa Edwin from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.

• Analysis of Radial Distribution of Hydrodynamic Pressure Fluctuations at the Plunge Pool Bottom. Fatahi-Alkouhi Reza from University of Isfahan, Iran.

• Effects of roughness geometries on sediment deposition and self-lining processes between strip roughness elements. Wu Xujian from Kyoto University, Japan.

• Experimental study on stepped dropshafts in deep tunnel drainage systems. Ren Weichen from China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, China.

• Extended ADM1-Driven Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Methane production in Anaerobic Digestion with In-Situ Hydrogen Bio-Methanation Upgrade. Paydarnik Pouria from University of Ottawa, Canada.

• Machine Learning Prediction of Methane Production and CO2 Emissions in Anaerobic Digestion Using ADM1-Generated Data. Ahmadvand Donya from University of Ottawa, Canada.

• The investigation to site effect of a concave slope within an earthquake. Ren P from Beijing University of Technology, China.

• Use of Square Collar in Reducing Scour around Circular Pier. Sultana Tania from Jadavpur University, India.

• Variation of the ratio of bubble diameter to bubble chord length in a highly aerated flow. Mondal Abhishek from FH Aachen, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

• Vorticity fields around physical barriers at water intakes of hydropower plants. Ozbey Cumhur, Kucukali Serhat from Hacettepe University, Turkey.

15:00 - 16:30 CET | Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics I and Coffee Break with mentors 

Chair: Gensheng Zhao from the IAHR Technical Committee on Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics

Hosts: David Ferras and Manish Pandey

• Simulation of Storm Surge and Wave Dynamics under Synthetic Cyclones: A Return Period-Based Analysis. Palanimanickam Vengadesan from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

• Analysis of pathology and failure mode as determining factors in the rehabilitation of a breakwater. Ocaña Karina from Instituto Mexicano del Transporte, Mexico.

• Bayesian Multi-Fidelity Gaussian Process Modeling for Predicting Desalination Brine Jet Dynamics. Goodarzi Danial from University of Ottawa, Canada.

• Coastal Decision Support for Optimizing Seawater Intake Selection in Morocco with GIS, AHP, and VBA Tools. El Masmodi Rim from Ibn Tofail University, Morocco.

• Failure Probability Reduction in Vertical Seawalls Using Retrofit Measures: A Probabilistic Approach. Jamali Rovesht Ali from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran.

• Hydrodynamic analysis of a spar buoy floating turbine for preliminary design: A CFD-based approach. Imbò Alessandro from Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy.

• Effects of Oyster Castle Porosities on Sediment Dynamics. Czaplinski Kamil from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• Idealized modelling of water motion in a tidal inlet basin: comparison of classical and Defina variant formulations of Shallow Water Equations. Qi Tian from Ghent University, Belgium.

• Monitoring Coastal Water Quality in Abu Dhabi Using satellite remote sensing and Machine Learning. Meqdad Huda from United Arab Emirates University, UAE.

• Influence of a Sloped Bottom on a 60-Degree Inclined Dense Jet Discharged into a Stationary Environment: A Numerical Simulation Study. Wang Xinyun from University of Ottawa, Canada.

• Experimental and numerical study on Flow-Vegetation interaction towards coastal protection. Hari Ram N. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
  

16:30 - 18:00 CET | Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics II + Marine Outfalls

Chair:  Majid Mohammadian from IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Outfall Systems and Samuel Okon

Hosts: Gonzalo García-Alén Lores and David Ferras

• Numerical Analysis of Propeller Jet Velocity and Bed Shear Stress: A Comparison of SST and Realizable k-ε Models. Mahir Abdelrahman A. from Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Turkey.

• Numerical Investigation of Velocity-Controlled Dispersion and Settling in OAE Particle Jets. Sohail Muhammad from Dalhousie University, Canada.

• Numerical modelling of cross-shore beach hydro-morphodynamics. Subbiah Elavazhagan Buckle from Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria, Spain.

• Reuse of dredged materials as filters or core in a breakwater. Yolane Yolane from LOMC laboratory, France.

• Safety of Walk-to-Work Systems in the Offshore Industry. Idrees Saad, Gudmestad Ove Tobias from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.

• Turbulent horizontal dense jets in stagnant ambient. Tahmooresi Sina from University of Ottawa, Canada.

• Water motion in intertidal area governed by 1D Shallow Water Equations and a coordinate transformation as wetting-drying approach. Liekens Jone from Ghent University, Belgium.

• Wave-Induced Transport of Plastic Bags. Roman-Oliver Agata from Imperial College London, UK.

• Propagation characteristics of intrusive sediment-laden flows via DNS simulation. Qiu Haowei from Dalhousie University, Canada.

Day 2 | Thursday, December 4, 2025

10:00 - 11:30 CET | Urban Drainage and Coffee Break with mentors 

Chairs: Manfred Kleidorfer from IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Urban Drainage and Rosario Arnau from IWA Young Professionals

Hosts: José Carrillo

• Comparing three deep learning models for prediction of water levels in the urban drainage systems. Vinokic Luka from The Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia.

• Enhancing Smart Sewer Monitoring through Optimal Structural Feature–Based Sensor Placement. Ninh Thi Hai Duong from University of Adelaide.

• Evaluating nature-based solutions for phosphorus and nitrate removal in semi-arid river systems: a case study of the Tigris River, Iraq. Hathal Mustafa from University of Pannonia,Hungary.

• Exploring the Potential of Biochar as a Thermal Insulation Material: Application to Blue-Green Roof Systems. Rodriguez Alba, Rey-Mahía Carlos from University of Oviedo, Spain.

• First steps towards the development of a robust methodology for determining rating curves in sewers. Felpete Silvia from Universidade da Coruña, Spain.

• Identifying the most contributing sources of microbiological contamination in Paris. Cartier Yoann from Laboratoire d'Hydraulique Saint-Venant, France.

• Inflow/Infiltration Detection in Sewer Systems using IoT Acoustic Monitoring. Zhao Anran from University of Adelaide.

• Methodological proposal for calculating the ratio between the pollutant load discharged in combined sewer overflows and the total annual pollutant load of wastewater recorded during dry weather. Nieto Rodríguez Cecilia from Canal de Isabel II S.A., Spain.

11:30 - 13:00 CET | Fluid Mechanics & Fluvial Hydraulics I and Coffee Break with mentors 

Chairs: Claudia Adduce from IAHR Technical Committee on Fluid Mechanics and Donatella Termini from IAHR Technical Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics.

Host: José Adriasola

• Case study for determining bridge scour. Lofthouse Emma from pitt&sherry, Australia.

• Re-thinking levee strategies for aggradation-driven flood risk in the Waiho River, New Zealand. Wu Zhengmin from Wuhan University, China.

• Turbulent flow structures in compound channels with set-back obstructions: eddy-resolved modelling and modal analysis. Xu Mengxin from Wuhan University, China.

• Analysis of changes in extreme flows of the Warta River under the influence of the operation of the Jeziorsko reservoir. Jaskuła Zuzanna from Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland.

• Calculation of hydrodynamic characteristics by dual approach. Tran Thi Kim Lien from Ecole 42 Campus de Nice, France.

• Estimation of hysteresis in static rating curve from symbolic regression for stage-discharge relationship: A case study. Dasgupta Rijurekha from Jadavpur University, India.

• Visualization of interference and sheltering effects on scour depth around cross-parallel complex piers by algorithm. Sen Plaban from Jadavpur University, India.

• Feedback Control on an Oscillating Foil Energy Harvester: A Numerical Study on Density Ratio Effects. Molina Ricardo from Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico.

• Effectiveness of Experimental Floods in Restoring River Dynamics: Insights from the Spöl River, Switzerland. Sheikh Maha from Université de Berne, Switzerland.

• Examining Abrasion Coefficient Variability Relative to Damage Patterns in Sediment Bypass Tunnels. Emara Ahmed from Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Japan; Alexandria University, Egypt.

13:00 - 14:00 CET | Keynote lecture : "Horseshoe Vortex Characteristics Near Bed-Mounted Inclined Cylinders"

Bed-mounted inclined cylinders have important applications across different fields of engineering. They are commonly seen in structural supports and offshore platforms. This experimental study investigates the influence of the inclination of bed-mounted cylinders on the horseshoe vortex (HSV) generated around them. To this end, the flow past vertical (VC), backward-inclined (BIC), and forward-inclined (FIC) cylinders were studied using the same fully-developed approach flow. Velocity fields upstream of the cylinder-bed junction were measured using particle image velocimetry at a Reynolds number based on cylinder diameter of 26,000. Mean flow analysis revealed well-defined...Read more