Urban Water: II

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Stefano Mambretti currently serves as Associate Professor of Hydraulics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2012 he served as a visiting professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil. He graduated in Civil Engineering at the Politecnico in 1991 (winning the Noseda prize as best graduate in Hydraulics that year) and was awarded a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering in 1995. In 1997 he was appointed as Vice Chief of Public Works in an important municipality in 1999 he became Assistant Professor in Hydraulics and in 2003 he was appointed Associate Professor. Stefano also worked as a private consultant for a number of projects in urban infrastructures in Djibouti Kuwait Algeria Tanzania Iraq gaining renowned expertise mainly in the field of waterhammer. Dr. Mambretti is the author or co-author of numerous publications (peer-reviewed scientific papers key-note lectures conference papers books and technical reports) in the areas of water phenomena as urban infrastructures (sewer and water distribution systems) fluid dynamics and rheology of debris and hyper-concentrated flows water resources use and management using both advanced laboratory and field observation techniques and mathematical simulation models. He is the co-editor of the WIT Press book Dam-Break Problems Solutions and Case Studies published in 2009 and sole editor of the WIT Press books Landslides and Flood Risk Assessment and Management published 2011 and Tsunami: From Fundamentals to Damage Mitigation published 2013. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia graduated at the University of Litoral Argentina. He received his PhD at Southampton University England in 1968 and worked at MIT USA and the Central Electricity Research Laboratories UK as well as the University of Princeton USA. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia was appointed Lecturer at the University of Southampton UK in 1969 and a senior lecturer in 1976 before becoming a Reader in Computational Engineering. In 1979 he became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Irvine. He is now Chairman of Computational Mechanics and Director of Wessex Institute of Technology. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia has written over 250 scientific papers is author or co-author of 13 books and editor or co-editor of over 80 other books. He is an internationally well known specialist in numerical methods finite and boundary elements and in the computer solution of engineering problems. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia is the Editor or co-editor of five scientific journals and has carried out a great deal of consultancy work for the engineering industry as well as having participated in many international projects and conferences.