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Overview

Zoran Kapelan is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and engineering, with a strong concentration in water systems and optimization.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

More specifically, Kapelan's research spans subfields such as:

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ocean Engineering

Their work addresses key topics including:

  • Water Systems and Optimization
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

Kapelan has published extensively in established venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Water Research
  • Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Urban Water Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kapelan include:

  • "Drinking Water Temperature around the Globe: Understanding, Policies, Challenges and Opportunities," 2020, Water
  • "Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling for Urban Water Networks: Review and Future Research Directions," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "Hourly and Daily Urban Water Demand Predictions Using a Long Short-Term Memory Based Model," 2020, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • "Using Complex Network Analysis for Optimization of Water Distribution Networks," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Battle of the Leakage Detection and Isolation Methods," 2022, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Kapelan frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Dragan Savić
  • Feifei Zheng
  • Jeroen Langeveld
  • Jan Peter van der Hoek
  • Fayyaz Ali Memon

Best Publications

  • A review of methods for leakage management in pipe networks

    R. Puust;Z. Kapelan;D. A. Savic;T. Koppel

  • Evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics in water resources

    H.R. Maier;Z. Kapelan;J. Kasprzyk;J. Kollat

  • The battle of the water sensor networks (BWSN): A design challenge for engineers and algorithms

    Avi Ostfeld;James G. Uber;Elad Salomons;Jonathan W. Berry

  • Pressure-Driven Demand and Leakage Simulation for Water Distribution Networks

    Orazio Giustolisi;Orazio Giustolisi;Dragan Savic;Dragan Savic;Zoran Kapelan;Zoran Kapelan

  • Assessing the Co-Benefits of green-blue-grey infrastructure for sustainable urban flood risk management

    Alida Alves;Berry Gersonius;Zoran Kapelan;Zoran Vojinovic

  • Multiobjective design of water distribution systems under uncertainty

    Zoran S. Kapelan;Dragan A. Savic;Godfrey A. Walters

  • Introductory overview: Optimization using evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics

    H.R. Maier;S. Razavi;Z. Kapelan;Z. Kapelan;L.S. Matott

  • Least-Cost Design of Water Distribution Networks under Demand Uncertainty

    Artem Babayan;Zoran Kapelan;Dragan A Savic;Godfrey A Walters

  • Quo vadis water distribution model calibration

    Dragan A. Savic;Zoran S. Kapelan;Philip M.R. Jonkergouw

  • Automated Detection of Pipe Bursts and Other Events in Water Distribution Systems

    Michele Romano;Zoran Kapelan;Dragan A. Savić

  • A hybrid inverse transient model for leakage detection and roughness calibration in pipe networks

    Zoran S. Kapelan;Dragan A. Savic;Godfrey A. Walters

  • Exploring trade-offs among the multiple benefits of green-blue-grey infrastructure for urban flood mitigation.

    Alida Alves;Alida Alves;Zoran Vojinovic;Zoran Kapelan;Arlex Sanchez

  • Two-Objective Design of Benchmark Problems of a Water Distribution System via MOEAs: Towards the Best-Known Approximation of the True Pareto Front

    Qi Wang;Michele Guidolin;Dragan Savic;Zoran Kapelan

  • Development of pipe deterioration models for water distribution systems using EPR

    L. Berardi;O. Giustolisi;Z. Kapelan;D. A. Savic

  • Adaptive Flood Risk Management Under Climate Change Uncertainty Using Real Options and Optimization

    Michelle Woodward;Zoran Kapelan;Ben Gouldby

  • Battle of the Water Calibration Networks

    Avi Ostfeld;Elad Salomons;Lindell Ormsbee;James G. Uber

  • Optimal Design of Water Distribution Systems Using Many-Objective Visual Analytics

    Guangtao Fu;Zoran Kapelan;Joseph R. Kasprzyk;Patrick Reed

  • Assessing the combined effects of urbanisation and climate change on the river water quality in an integrated urban wastewater system in the UK.

    Maryam Astaraie-Imani;Zoran Kapelan;Guangtao Fu;David Butler

  • Multiobjective sampling design for water distribution model calibration

    Zoran S. Kapelan;Dragan A. Savic;Godfrey A. Walters

  • Stochastic sampling design using a multi-objective genetic algorithm and adaptive neural networks

    Kourosh Behzadian;Zoran Kapelan;Dragan Savic;Abdollah Ardeshir

Frequent Co-Authors

Dragan Savic
Dragan Savic University of Exeter
Godfrey A. Walters
Godfrey A. Walters University of Exeter
Orazio Giustolisi
Orazio Giustolisi University of Bari Aldo Moro
David Butler
David Butler University of Exeter
Soon-Thiam Khu
Soon-Thiam Khu Tianjin University
Guangtao Fu
Guangtao Fu University of Exeter
Marco Franchini
Marco Franchini University of Ferrara
Holger R. Maier
Holger R. Maier University of Adelaide
Graeme C. Dandy
Graeme C. Dandy University of Adelaide
Helge Brattebø
Helge Brattebø Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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