Building Resilience: Analyzing Beira’s Drainage Network and Flood Management: The impact of failure mechanisms on flooding in informal settlements

This research analyses and evaluates the performance of the drainage system in Beira, Mozambique. It considers its formation, maintenance, failure modes and connections, to recommend improvements on its performance. The research identifies six primary failure modes - vegetation overgrowth, human interference, waste accumulation, sedimentation,...

Groundwater drainage in New Orleans

The goal of this study was to get a better understanding of the current groundwater drainage in New Orleans, Louisiana. An analysis was conducted on the interactions between groundwater drainage and different water infrastructure systems like: the sanitary sewer system, the storm water drainage system, and the drinking water system. Due to the...

Grip on wet interfaces: an experimental study on the role of drainage

Drainage of fluid from wet adhesive-substrate interfaces is often mentioned to be an important mechanism in obtaining strong grip. It has been hypothesized that micropatterned adhesives – that contain features (e.g., pillars) separated by channels on their surface – have a better drainage capability compared to unpatterned adhesives....

Assessing and modeling the hydrological performance of DIT sewers: A case study at Kuiperstraat and H.A.J.M. Schaepmanstraat, Gouda, Netherlands

Gouda deals with land subsidence and groundwater problems. A solution to these challenges is the application of Drainage-Infiltration-Transport (DIT) sewers, on which research is lacking. This thesis provides provides infiltration and drainage capacity values on DIT sewers and helps to understand the governing processes.

Factors influencing sediment load to gully pots: Environmental and gully pot specific factors

Phenomena like urbanization and climate change will increase flooding problems, making it clear that more research and investments are needed in sewer systems to improve urban flood prevention. This research was done to determine factors influencing the sediment load to gully pots. It was assumed that in the measurement period, the retaining...

Flood Management Campeche

The focus of this research is to provide solutions to the city of Campeche to decrease the<br/>inundation risks generated by a hurricane with an occurrence of once in <br/>fifty years. Campeche<br/>is a city located at the Gulf of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. The rapid growth of the<br/>city is one of the reasons it is having troubles with...