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Water savings and urban storm water management: Evaluation of the potentiality of rainwater harvesting systems from the building to the city scale by Carollo, Matteo, Butera, Ilaria, Revelli, Roberto

“…The main potential benefits of rainwater harvesting, namely water saving and storm water management, are easily evaluable at a building scale when well-known…”
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Water savings and urban storm water management: Evaluation of the potentiality of rainwater harvesting systems from the building to the city scale by Matteo Carollo, Ilaria Butera, Roberto Revelli

“…The main potential benefits of rainwater harvesting, namely water saving and storm water management, are easily evaluable at a building scale when well-known…”
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Output power and power losses estimation for an overshot water wheel by Quaranta, Emanuele, Revelli, Roberto

“…Thanks to a new sensibility to renewable energy and to local and smart electricity production, traditional water wheels are regarded again as a clean and…”
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Reduction of the hyporheic zone volume due to the stream-aquifer interaction by Boano, Fulvio, Revelli, Roberto, Ridolfi, Luca

“…Pore water in stream sediments is continuously exchanged with the surface water from the overlying stream. This exchange of water and solutes that occurs…”
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Sinuosity-driven hyporheic exchange in meandering rivers by Boano, Fulvio, Camporeale, Carlo, Revelli, Roberto, Ridolfi, Luca

“…A model for the evaluation of the intra‐meander hyporheic exchange fluxes is presented. The method relies on a physically‐based morphodynamic model to predict…”
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Intra-meander hyporheic flow in alluvial rivers by Revelli, Roberto, Boano, Fulvio, Camporeale, Carlo, Ridolfi, Luca

“…Several geomorphological fluvial features are able to induce hyporheic exchange between the rivers and the alluvial sediments. However, while the small‐scale…”
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Ecohydrology of street trees: design and irrigation requirements for sustainable water use by Vico, Giulia, Revelli, Roberto, Porporato, Amilcare

“…ABSTRACT Whereas the beneficial effects of urban vegetation have long been recognized, growing conditions in urban environments, especially for street trees,…”
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Functional Analysis of Piedmont (Italy) Ancient Water Mills Aimed at Their Recovery or Reconversion by Franco, Walter, Ferraresi, Carlo, Revelli, Roberto

“…Since ancient times and for hundreds of years, grain mills, hammers, sawmills, spinning mills, and hemp rollers have been powered by water wheels. In the…”
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Gravity water wheels as a micro hydropower energy source: A review based on historic data, design methods, efficiencies and modern optimizations by Quaranta, Emanuele, Revelli, Roberto

“…Nowadays, due to the need for clean energy and sustainable electricity production, hydropower plays a central role in satisfying the energy demand…”
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Source identification in river pollution problems: A geostatistical approach by Boano, F, Revelli, R, Ridolfi, L

“…The geostatistical method, formulated in the groundwater field, has been applied to identify contaminant sources in river pollution problems. The problem…”
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Performance Optimization of Overshot Water Wheels at High Rotational Speeds for Hydropower Applications by Quaranta, Emanuele, Revelli, Roberto

“…AbstractOvershot water wheels are hydropower converters generally employed for head differences up to 6 m and maximum flow rates of 150−200  L/s per meter…”
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Performance characteristics, power losses and mechanical power estimation for a breastshot water wheel by Quaranta, Emanuele, Revelli, Roberto

“…Breastshot water wheels were in widespread use in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth century for the production of energy; although they represent an economic,…”
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Generalized collocation method for linear and nonlinear convection-diffusion models by Revelli, Roberto, Ridolfi, Luca

“…The generalized collocation method has proved to be a simple and useful numerical approach for the simulation of a number of one- and two-dimensional nonlinear…”
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Hydraulic Behavior and Performance of Breastshot Water Wheels for Different Numbers of Blades by Quaranta, Emanuele, Revelli, Roberto

“…AbstractThanks to their efficiency and simplicity of contruction, breastshot water wheels represent an attractive low head hydropower converter. In this work,…”
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Ecohydrological model for the quantification of ecosystem services provided by urban street trees by Revelli, Roberto, Porporato, Amilcare

“…Urban green spaces have been recognized as an important source of ecosystem services, whose quantification requires the determination of quantities related to…”
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A dynamical systems framework for crop models: Toward optimal fertilization and irrigation strategies under climatic variability by Pelak, Norman, Revelli, Roberto, Porporato, Amilcare

“…•Crop models are not typically examined in a dynamical systems framework.•A simple crop model to explore this framework is proposed.•Results highlight the…”
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Optimal design process of crossflow Banki turbines: Literature review and novel expeditious equations by Quaranta, Emanuele, Perrier, Jean Pierre, Revelli, Roberto

“…The Banki turbine is a crossflow turbine suitable for sites with heads below 200 m and flow rates below 10 m3/s, with maximum efficiency around 80%. Its…”
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A Scoring Matrix Method for Integrated Evaluation of Water-Related Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Parks by Rosini, Caterina, Revelli, Roberto

“…Increasing urbanization, landscape conversion, and resource consumption represent the most important, visible and irreversible human-induced actions on Earth…”
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CFD simulations to optimize the blade design of water wheels by Quaranta, Emanuele, Revelli, Roberto

“…At low head sites and at low discharges, water wheels can be considered among the most convenient hydropower converters to install. The aim of this work is to…”
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The Very Low Head Turbine for hydropower generation in existing hydraulic infrastructures: State of the art and future challenges by Quaranta, Emanuele, Bahreini, Amir, Riasi, Alireza, Revelli, Roberto

“…•The Very Low Head Turbine (VLHT) can be used below 4.5 m head and up to 30 m3/s of flow.•The VLHT efficiency, design, ecological behavior and practical…”
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