WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

• Multi-objective planning and management
• River engineering, hydrodynamics and sediment transport
• River-reservoir and ecosystem management
• Coping with climate change impact
• International water laws and treaties
• Integrated river basin management
• Forest hydrology and peat soil management
• Information management system
• System analysis in water resources

 

FLOOD MANAGEMENT

• Socio-economic and environmental impacts of flood
• Flood plain management and flood risk mapping
• Flood mitigation and innovative control measures
• Dam and reservoirs as flood control structures
• Rainfall modelling and flood forecasting system
• Coping with climate change and adaptive measures
• Management capacity for sustainable infrastructure
• Urban stormwater and rainwater harvesting

 

WATER SUPPLY AND WATER ECONOMICS

•  Water security and economic development
•  Reservoir management and water supply
•  Groundwater management and modelling
•  Groundwater for drinking and irrigation
•  Water and wastewater treatment
•  Water supply and sanitation
•  Water management and irrigation system
•  Water distribution system and modelling tools
•  Sustainability and competitiveness investment
•  Conservation and water use efficiency
•  Water for food and irrigated agricultural land
•  Economics analysis of water and modelling tools
•  Stochastic programming and bargaining theory
•  Water and hydropower generation

 

COASTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

• Coastal and ocean climate variation
• Coastal processes and environment
• Marine aquatic biodiversity
• Integrated coastal zone management
• Coastal sediment transport and morphology
• Coastal structure and protection
• Port, harbour and waterways
• Estuarine hydrodynamics and transport

 

ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

• Prevention and mitigation measures of water pollution
• Aquatic biodiversity maintenance
• Contamination of lakes, rivers and wetland ecosystems
• Port structure and navigation channel
• Climate variability and modelling
• Environmental hydraulics and hydrology
• Water pollution and ecosystem degradation
• Water quality and water age
• Environmental Impact Assessment

 

WATER RELATED NATURAL DISASTER

•  Tsunami modelling and regional disaster
•  Coastal flooding and defence
•  Sea level rise and adaptation strategy
•  Reports on the costs of damages and disruption
•  Global warming and drought management strategy
•  Coastal risk
•  Disaster risk management

 

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

•  Probability distribution and time series methods
•  Computational fluid dynamics
•  PDEs, Korteweg-de Vries, Laplace, Poisson
•  Navier Stokes, Lagrange, Newton, Fourier,Boussinesq
•  Taylor, Euler, Runge-Kutta, Saint-Venant
•  Finite difference, finite element, VOF
•  Gaussian, Bayesian, Copulas, Hidden Markov
•  Linear and non linear equations
•  Adaptive fuzzy system, adaptive neural networks
•  Neuro-fuzzy, neuro-rough system
•  Evolutionary computing and artificial immune system
•  Data mining and intelligent information retrieval
•  Forecasting and optimization using AI

 

OTHER RELATED DISCIPLINES

•  Water and sustainable tourism industry
•  Water and agritourism/ecotourism
•  Water in islamic art and culture
•  Water and renewable energy
•  Water and green buildings
•  Water in architecture and urban planning
•  Photogrammetry and GIS in water engineering
•  Water laws and economic models