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Msc Abstracts

Hydroinformatics

Part of Master Programme in Water Science and Engineering

MSc participants of the Hydroinformatics course are conducting research along the main lines of hydroinformatics. The duration of the MSc thesis part of the programme is normally from 6 months (sometimes extended to 7 or 8 months). Often MSc studies result in publications.

The list of participants (from 1992) and the titles of their MSc reports follows.

MSc graduation year 2009 (entered UNESCO-IHE in 2007)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Mr. S.K.L.S. Rupasinghe

Sri Lanka

Information Theory and Optimisation for Location of Sensors in Water Distribution Systems for Contaminant Detection

Mr. Oscar Hernández Murcia

Colombia

Analysis and Optimization of Chaotic Models for Storm Surge Prediction

Ms. He Liyan

China

Information Theory Applied to the Monitoring Network for the Magdalena River

Ms. Tang Yiyuan

China

Integrated Modeling of Flood Forecasting and Multi-reservoir-based Operation in Yellow River Basin, China

Mr. Wang Yuzhen

China

Water quality simulations for the Dommel Catchment of Noord Brabant Province

Mr. Samwel Zakayo

Tanzania

Multi-Objective Calibration of SWAT Model for Pesticide Simulations.

Ms. Hoang Nguyen Khanh Linh

Vietnam

Integrated Water Quality Modelling for implementing the Water Framework Directive: Case study: Grote Nete basin, Belgium

Mr. Yisehak Gebregziabher Bezabih

Ethiopia

Drought Assessment, Forecasts and Predictions under Climate Change Scenario In the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Mr. Chu Kai

China

Process-based and Surrogate Modelling of Fine Sediment Transport in the Dutch Coastal Zone.

Ms. Chen Ying

China

Integrated Urban Wastewater System Modelling with Conceptual Surrogate Models

Mr. Samwel Zakayo

Uganda

Optimizing the operation of water distribution networks - A Case study of the Richmond Water Distribution System, U.K

Mr. Almatia Gunawan

Indonesia

Google Android Mobile Phone Application for Dissemination of Water Quality Information: Case Study of the Dommel Catchment, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlans.

MSc graduation year 2008 (entered IHE in 2006)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Ms. Yuqing Lin

China

Unstructured Cellular Automata for Harmful Algal Blooms Modelling

Mr Mijail Eduardo Arias Hidalgo

Ecuador

Enhancing the Delft BLOOM/GEM model using Remote Sensing data

Mr. Zhuo Xu

China

Integrated Urban Water Management: Modelling and Strategic Planning

Mr. Shenyang Li

China

Software System Requirements for Multi-reservoir-based Flood Control and Managementa case study for the Yellow River in China

Mr. Chen Pengxiao

China

Flood Hazard Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing Data

Mr. Alain Bayavuge

Rwanda

GIS-based multi-objective management of drinking water quality in intermittent suppliesThe case of Kigali city, Rwanda

Mr. Manning Jasson Mwalwaka

Tanzania

Effects of Model Schematisation, Geometry and Parameter values on Urban Flood wave Approximations

Mr. Kibreab Amare Assefa

Ethiopia

Flood forecasting and early warning in Lake Tana sub Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia

Ms. Ednah Kwamboka Onyari

Kenya

An Integrated modelling approach for flood hazard analysis and mitigation: A case study of Timis and Bega Basins, Romania.

Mr. Modathir Abdalla Hassan Zaroug

Sudan

Flood Analysis in the Blue Nile, a Case Study of Flood Simulation in Khartoum With Climate Change Scenarios

Mr. Sewagudde Sowedi

Uganda

A Hybrid Approach to Combine Physically Based and Data-Driven Models in Simulating Sediment Transportation

Ms. Qi Hui

China

Exploring Multi-Agent Systems in Aquatic Population Dynamics Modelling

Mr. Arsène Aimé Habyarimana Mukubwa

Rwanda

Modelling of Sediment Yield and Deposition in the Planned Rusumo Hydropower Reservoir Using SWAT Model

Mr. Ahmed Adel Saleh

Egypt

Uncertainty Analysis of Hydrological Models: Nzoia River Case Study

Mr. Florence Harald Mahay

Tanzania

Ecohydrology Study of Kirumi Wetland using Hydroinformatics Tools

Mr. Girma Yimer Ebrahim

Ethiopia

Hydrological Response of a Catchment to Climate Change, Case Study on Upper Beles Sub-Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia

Mr. Almoradie Adrian Delos Santos

The Philippines

Hydroinformatics Geo-referenced Tools and Web Technologies for Flood Management. A Case Study in the Westerschelde, The Netherlands

Mr. Tseganeh Zekiewos Gichamo

Ethiopia

Embankment Failure Modeling using the HR BREACH Model: Uncertainty Analysis & Presentation Scenarios

Mr. William Niyonzima

Burundi

Hydrological Modelling of Wetlands in Nile River Basin Using Gis Based Techniques

Mr. Getnet Dubale Betrie

Ethiopia

Integrated Sediment Transport Modelling Using OpenMI (SWAT and SOBEK-RE) for the Blue Nile River Basin

MSc graduation year 2007 (entered IHE in 2005)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Mr. Didier Haguma

Rwanda

Development of a hydrologic model of Kagera River basin using remote sensing data

Mr. J.C.W. Ediriweera

Sri Lanka

A GIS-based framework for urban flood modelling and disaster management

Mr. Jin Wei

China

Towards a Demonstrator of Flash Flood Warning System

Mr. Nguyen, K.T.P.

Vietnam

Flood Hazard Modeling in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Mr. Dragan Tutulić

Serbia and Montenegro

Flood plain modelling with 1D and 2D models - A Case Study of St. Maarten N.A.

Ms. Rahel Tessema

Ethiopia

Agricultural drought assessment for Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia using SWAT

Mr. Cheng Peng

China

A Conceptual Model for the lower reach of Yellow River

Mr. B.B. Dhant

Nepal

Modelling Effects of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Discharges on Receiving Environment

Ms. Dong Wu

China

Evaluation of the Flow Regime in the Lower Yellow River Delta, China

Mr. Hidayat

Indonesia

Application of Data-Driven Techniques in Semi-Distributed Hydrological Modelling

Mr. Huang Wei

China

Lugu Lake Ecological Impact Assessment Using Habitat model

Mr. Nagendra Kayastha

Nepal

Comparison of novel approaches to uncertainty analysis of hydrological models

Ms. Li Yujie

China

Water Quality modeling to deal with the environmental management of Lugu Hu in China

Mr. Ma Hui

China

Assessing the Ecological Environment around the Yellow River Delta Area by RS and GIS

Ms. Abrehet Mohammed Omer

Ethiopia

Remote Modelling and Knowledge Dissemination Across Internet

Mr. José A. Simmonds Sheppard

Panama

Hydrodynamic Modeling of Shalow Lakes: The Case Study of Edko lake

Ms. Flora Umuhire

Rwanda

Modelling tile drainage for agriculture, nature and water quality in Pike river watershed using SWAT model. Quebec – CANADA Project.

Mr. Wang, Li

China

Modelling of Cohesive Sediment Transport in the Maasmond Area

Ms. Xu Mengxi

China

Processing and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Images for Water Quality Monitoring Based on Computational Intelligence

Ms. Zhu Xuang

China

3D Graphics and Virtual Reality Applications in Decision Support System

Mr. Arlex Sanchez Torres

Colombia

Towards a demonstrator of an urban drainage decision support system

MSc graduation year 2006 (entered IHE in 2004)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Mrs. Ani Sofini

Indonesia

Sediment Yield Assessment for Land Management using Hydrological Models and Bayesian Network

Mr. Abraha Adugna Ashenafi

Ethiopia

Flood modelling and forecasting for Awash river basin in Ethiopia

Mr. Chen Changjun

China

Novel methods for uncertainty analysis of hydrologic models

Mr. Alfonso Segura Leonardo

Colombia

Use of hydroinformatics technology for real time water quality management and operation of distribution networks. Case study of Villavicencio, Colombia

Mrs. Nor Azimah Binti Abdul Aziz

Malaysia

1D-2D Coupling Urban Flooding Model using radar data in Bangkok City

Mr. Ahmad Fikri Bin Abdullah

Malaysia

WebGIS Flood Information System

Mr. Chitranjan Kaushik

India

Urban Flood Modelling- A comparative Study for 1D and 2D models

Mr. Chiang Po

Taiwan of China

Novel Approaches in Optimization of Wastewater Systems Rehabilitation

Mr. Kenneth Muniina

Uganda

A hydrodynamic characterization/ modelling of a reservoir: Case study Yongdam Reservoir in South Korea

Mr. Wang Li

China

Dynamic Analysis of Water Resources Distribution in the Heihe River

Mrs. Zhao Yang

China

Missing Data Infilling for Rijnland Area

Mrs. Nayeema Nazneen Naz

Bangladesh

Urban Flood Warning System with wireless technology: Case Study of Dhaka City – Bangladesh

Mr. Mohammad Farhad Hossain Sarker

Bangladesh

Morphodynamic Equilibrium in a Discharge Dominated Alluvial Estuary

Mr. Shishir Koirala

Nepal

Water Conflicts and Resolution

Mr. Quinhua Ye

Bangladesh

Modelling of Cohesive Sediment Transportation, Deposition and Resuspension in the Haringvliet Mouth

Mr. Akthar

China

Flood Forecasting for Bangladesh with Satellite Data

MSc graduation year 2005 (entered IHE in 2003)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Li Hong

China

Harmful Algal Bloom prediction –
a case study for Western Xiamen Bay, China.

Gerald Corzo

Colombia

Rule-Based Committees of Data-Driven Models for Hydrological Forecasting

Solomon Seyoum

Ethiopia

A generic software tool for OpenMI-compliant
Ensemble Kalman Filtering

Elona Abazi

Albania

Modelling floods in wide rivers using Sobek 1D2D
“a case study for the Elbe river”

BASHAR (Kazi Emran)

Bangladesh

"Floodplain Modelling in Bangladesh by SOBEK 1D2D Coupling System"

Emmanuel Tumwesigye

Uganda

Towards a new Business Model in Hydroinformatics: The Case of Urban Drainage Systems.

Ketama Mamo

Ethiopia

A Demonstrator of a Mass-Customised Advice-Serving System

Fernando W.A.Y.S

Sri Lanka

Modelling Of Flood Wave Propagation Using Inverse Modelling

MSc graduation year 2004 (entered IHE in 2002)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Umboro Lasminto

Flood Modelling and Forecasting in the Surabaya River

Md. Manjurul Alam

Combined Data Mining and Numerical Modelling for Hydro-Morphological Analysis-Application to Bhola Island in Bangladesh

Wang Fei

Modelling Compound Channels with Sobek

Joseph Marie Tchouani Nana

Graded Sediment Transport Modelling

Javier Rodriquez Uthurburu

Evaluation of Physically based and evolutionary data mining approaches for modeling resistance due to vegetation in SOBEK 1D-2D.

Sajia Zaman

Modelling Sediment Transport Rate within Submerged Vegetated Channel - a Data-Driven Approach.

Evgeni Tsivtsivadze

Support Vector Machines: Implementation, Optimisation and Application in Hydroinformatics

Mahesh MASKEY

Nepal

Instance Based Learning in Hydrological Modelling

MSc graduation year 2003 (entered IHE in 2001)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Sun Yangbo

Heihe River Basin Water Resources Decision Support System

Wang Chunqing

Land Cover Classification From Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Computational Intelligence With Application to Heihe River Basin

Sisay

Real-Time Decision Support System for Flood Management

Liu Huawu

Drought Analysis and Drought Early Warning for the Heihe River Basin in China

Jervis

Graded Sediment Transport Modelling

Khan

Remote Sensing And Advanced Data Mining Techniques for Prediction of Bank Erosion and Understanding the Inter Tidal Phenomenon

Ayub Ali

Application of Advanced Numerical Modelling for Understanding of Complex Morphological Behaviour in Meghna Estuary

MSc graduation year 2002 (entered IHE in 2000)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Belay Melkamu Geleta

Ethiopia

Physically-based hydrological modelling and uncertainty analysis due to Digital Elevation Models in rainfall-runoff modelling

Craig Mackay

New Zealand

Extension of the SOBEK Rainfall Runoff Model

Do Duc Ding

Viet Nam

Optimal Reservoir Control for the Dong Nai River Basin

Khada Nanda Dulal

Nepal

Application of Data-driven Techniques in Hydrological Modelling

Le Hoang Anh

Viet Nam

Decision Support System for Irrigation Management in Vietnam

Matthew R.J. Turner

Australia

Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling of Suspended Sediment

Mokaisin Mutazz

Palestine

Complementing conceptual rainfall runoff modelling with ANNS

Phan Thi Huong

Viet Nam

24-Hours in advance forecasting of water level and discharge on the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the Netherlands

D. L. Shrestha

Nepal

Application of Bayesian Networks in Hydroinformatics

MSc graduation year 2001 (entered IHE in 1999)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Y. Xue

China

Application of machine learning techniques to flood forecasting in the upper reach of the Huai river

J. Zeng

China

Hydrodynamic modelling and optimal flood control for the middle reach of the Huai river basin

C. Zhu

China

Application of ANNs to rainfall-runoff modelling in the upper reach of the Huai river basin

H. Zuo

China

Decision support system architectures for flood control management in the Huai river basin

L. Zhao

China

Web-based environmental supporting community of practice

K. Belbase

Nepal

Distributed rainfall-runoff modelling using a digital terrain model

Y. Abdel Latif

Palestine

Water distribution modelling with intermittent supply: sensitivity analysis and performance evaluation for Bani-Suhila City, Palestine

L. Wang

China

Artificial neural networks and model trees for reconstruction of missing data and runoff forecasting - applications to catchments in Salland, The Netherlands.

M. Kamal

Bangladesh

Determination of target water levels for the safety of hydraulic structures

H. Shaakeel

Bangladesh

Exploratory analysis of tidal current in the Maas channel

W. Barreto

Venezuela

Applications of data mining technologies to studies on morphological processes

E.H. Fernandez

Colombia

Modelling of Cauca River Using SOBEK

K. Kato

Japan

Pre-processing of cross-sectional data from GIS for the 1-D hydrodynamic river model SOBEK

V.H. Bojkov

Bulgaria

Runoff modelling with genetic programming and artificial neural networks

D. Fuhrman

USA

Data assimilation and error prediction using local models

N. Kansal

India

Application of artificial neural networks for carrying out scoping studies in urban pollution management projects

H. Chibuye

Zimbabwe

Integrated modelling tools for Cork urban water system

V. Yzocupe
(entered IHE in 1989)

Peru

2-D hydrodynamic modelling in Paracas Bay, Peru

MSc graduation year 2000 (entered IHE in 1998)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Weeratunga

Sri Lanka

Uncertainty in modelling of water distribution networks for demand management and leakage control

C. Rojas Pupo

Cuba

Application of Data Mining Techniques and Chaos Theory for Surge Water Level Predictions

Mulugeta Tefera

Ethiopia

Application of Internet technologies in distance learning and remote modelling

Wu

China

Leakage Risk Assessment of Pipe Network

Yu

China

Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Chaotic system

Y. Morales

Investigation of Data Mining techniques in a context of Reservoir Operation

Chen

China

Cellular automata for ecological modelling

Kazi

Bangladesh

Effect of spatial grain size variations on morphology of straight alluvial channel

J. Alfonso Ordas

Cuba

Java based user interfase for a control module for morphological model

Emad El-Gammal

Egypt

Decision Support System for The European River Flood Occurrence and Total Risk Assessment System (to be finalised)

B. Bhattacharya

India

Machine Learning in Real Time Control of Regional Water Systems

MSc graduation year 1999 (entered IHE in 1997)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Alfonso Fleites

Cuba

Remote modelling using Delft 3D

Amr El Safty

Egypt

Application of Data driven Methods for flood forecasting

Bunchingiv Bazartseren

Mongolia

Use of artificial neural networks and fuzzy adaptive systems in controlling polders water level in the Netherlands

Maxwell Dickson

Zimbabwe

Using GIS and Internet technologies for solving water resources management problems in Zimbabwe

Ririn Erinawati

Indonesia

Development of two dimensional finite element and finite volume-based code for groundwater flow modelling

R Gopakumar

India

Seabed recognition using artificial neural networks

Huang Yan

China

Application of data driven methods for flood forecasting

Dyah Indriana Kusumastuti

Indonesia

Application of data driven modelling techniques to rainfall-runoff in natural catchment

Shreedhar Maskey

Nepal

Informatic tools in eco-hydraulics

Petronella Apiyo Ogut

Kenya

An integrated water management model for urban areas

S. M. Mahbubur Rahman

Bangladesh

Analysis and prediction of chaotic timeseries

Ahmed H.A. Daoud

Egypt

Sediment Transport Modeling for Dredging Management at Port Said

MSc graduation year 1998 (entered IHE in 1996)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Abebe Andualem Jemberie

Ethiopia

Application of fuzzy logic for knowledge representation in hydroinformatics

Mohamed Ahmed

Egypt

Informatic tools for the hazard assessment of dam failure

Dilip Kumar Gautam

Nepal

Regressive neural networks for the modelling of time series

Chaitanya Kalia

India

Analysis and visualisation of three dimensional flow simulation: An approach with measurement comparison

Thai Gia Khanh

Vietnam

Sensitivity analysis of South China Sea model

Jamal Samedov

Turkmenistan

A Lagrangian-Eulerian approach to two-dimensional numerical modelling

Rezar Shehu

Albania

Different strategies in automatic calibration of rainfall-runoff models

Slavco Velickov

Macedonia

The use of Internet technologies for hydroinformatics

Oswaldo Proano Santos

Ecuador

Evaluation of overflows from a sewer system computational model using auto-regressive neural networks

Zea – ul - Hoque

Bangladesh

An environmental impact assessment system for small–scale water resource development in Bangladesh

MSc graduation year 1997 (entered IHE in 1995)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Yonas Dibike

Ethiopia

Use of artificial neural networks in model approximation

K Sharma

Nepal

Integration tool for groundwater modelling: use of object and visual component programming

A R Perrino

Italy

Non-linear principal component analysis technique using neural networks: learning dependencies in data series

M M G S Fernando

Sri Lanka

The influence of different boundary conditions for Kalman filtering in hydrodynamic models

Shawkat Ali

Bangladesh

Applications of self organising feature maps for the analysis of hydrological and ecological data sets

S Fernandez Concepcion

Cuba

Evaluation of Tcl and Tk toolkit through the development of a graphical user interface for a genetic algorithm

Lee, Hangoo

Korea

Optimal reservoir operation for flood control using a hybrid modelling approach

MSc graduation year 1996 (entered IHE in 1994)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Constantinescu

Romania

Calibration of hydrodynamic numerical models using global optimisation techniques

Simic

Croatia

A decision support system for environmental assessment

Sanchez

Peru

Neural network modelling of total horizontal force on vertical breakwaters

Shen

China

Model and parameter analysis techniques

Roa

Philippines

Quality control support module for hydrological-hydrometeorological data

MSc graduation year 1995 (entered IHE in 1993)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Tan, Tien Ser

Singapore

Development of a real-time optimal control system for drainage using an object-oriented approach

Canizares Torre

Spain

Data assimilation and parameter estimation in a 2D advection-dispersion model

Wilson

New Zealand

A classifier system for the control of an urban drainage network

Hoang Thi Minh Hong

Vietnam

Hydraulic resistance of flexible roughness

Masood-Ul-Hassan

Bangladesh

Real-time control of hydraulic structures: predictive control using artificial neural networks

Nada

Egypt

Wades: modelling system for water distribution networks

Avila Torres

Venezuela

Optimising the Apure river basin reservoir system using a multi-model approach

MSc graduation year 1994 (entered IHE in 1992)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Banijamali

Iran

A finite difference model for simulation of short wave behaviour

Bogale

Ethiopia

Design and implementation of a modelling system for water distribution network: An object oriented approach

El-Serafy

Egypt

Two dimensional vertical modelling of salt intrusion in partially mixed estuaries

Mansour

Egypt

Improvement of cavitation and fluid-structure interaction modelling in water hammer computations

Vodslon

Czech Republic

Validation of the one-dimensional modelling system SOBEK

Wu

China

Automatic model calibration by simulating evolution

MSc graduation year 1993 (entered IHE in 1991)

Name

Country

MSc thesis title

Garcia, H M

Cuba

Optimal real-time control of unsteady combined sewer flow

Ingeduld, P

Czech Republic

Elements of object-oriented simulators

Marazzi, M L

Argentina

Coupling a GIS with a 1-D hydrodynamic river model

Metelka, T

Czech Republic

Particle image velocimetry

Rasul, A Z E

Bangladesh

Neural network application in hydraulic structure operation for optimal flood management

Savioli, J

Argentina

Flow simulation with cellular automata