TRANSPORT OVER WATER

Water systems and transport systems are two classes of systems that have over the years received a significant amount of attention. Initially, this research focused on how to design such water and transport systems. More recently, a strong research line is emerging with a focus on how to obtain the best performance for a given water or transport system, after it has been designed... For both water and transport systems, at an operational level, approaches have been proposed in the literature aimed at optimizing performance at a day to day, hour to hour, or even minute to minute time scale. Nevertheless, approaches that consider the interaction between these two types of systems are lacking. However, at such fast time scales, to interplay between the two types of systems cannot be ignored. It thus becomes important to explore to what extent transport and water systems interact at an operational time scale, and how the dynamics of both systems can be aligned in the best way possible..