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Urban Hydrological Modeling & Green Infrastructure Optimization

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  1. K. Macro, L. S. Matott, A. Rabideau, S. Hamed Ghodsi, and Z. Zhu*. “OSTRICH-SWMM: A New Multi-Objective Optimization Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning with SWMM”. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2019, 113: 42-47. (pdf)​

  2. M. Shahed Behrouz, Z. Zhu*, L. S. Matott, and A. Rabideau. “A new tool for automatic calibration of Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)”. Journal of Hydrology, 2020, 581:124436. (pdf)

  3. S. H. Ghodsi, Z. Zhu*, H. Gheith, A. Rabideau, M. N. Torres, and K. Meindl. “Modeling the Effectiveness of Rain Barrels, Cisterns, and Downspout Disconnections for Reducing Combined Sewer Overflows in a City-Scale Watershed.” Water Resources Management, 2021. (pdf)

  4. S. H. Ghodsi*, Z. Zahmatkesh, E. Goharian, R. Kerachian, and Z. Zhu. “Optimal Design of Low Impact Development Practices in Response to Climate Change”. Journal of Hydrology, 2020, 580:124266. (pdf)

  5. A. Roseboro, M. N. Torres*, Z. Zhu, and A. Rabideau. “The impacts of climate change and porous pavement on combined sewer overflows: A case study of the City of Buffalo, New York, USA”. Frontiers in Water, 2021. (pdf)

  6. M. N. Torres*, A. Rabideau, S. H. Ghodsi, Z. Zhu, and L. S. Matott. “Spatial design strategies and performance of porous pavements for reducing combined sewer overflows”. Journal of Hydrology, 2022. (pdf)

  7. M. N. Torres*, J. E. Fontecha, J. L. Walteros, Z. Zhu, Z. Ahmed, J. P. Rodríguez, and A. Rabideau. “City-scale optimal location planning of Green Infrastructure using piece-wise linear interpolation and exact optimization methods.” Journal of Hydrology, 2021. (pdf)

  8. M. N. Torres*, J. E. Fontecha, Z. Zhu, J. Walteros, and J. P. Rodríguez. “A participatory approach based on stochastic optimization for the spatial allocation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems for rainwater harvesting”. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2020, 123:104532. (pdf)

  9. L. Wang, Q. Hu*, Y. Wang, Z. Zhu, L. Li, Y. Liu, and T. Cui. “Using Copulas to evaluate rationality of rainfall spatial distribution in a design storm”. Water, 2018, 10(6), 758. (pdf)

  10. J. E. Fontecha, A. Nikolaev, J. L. Walteros*, and Z. Zhu. “Scientists Wanted? A Literature Review on Incentive Programs that Promote Pro-Environmental Consumer Behavior: Energy, Waste, and Water”. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022. (link)

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Urban Waterways

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  1. A. M. Saharia, Z. Zhu*, and J. F. Atkinson. “Compound flooding from lake seiche and river flow in a freshwater coastal river”. Journal of Hydrology, 2021. (pdf)

  2. A. M. Saharia, Z. Zhu*, N. Aich, M. Baalousha, and J. F. Atkinson. “Modeling the transport of titanium dioxide nanomaterials from combined sewer overflows in an urban river.” Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 696: 133904. (pdf)

  3. V. Vijayashanthar, J. Qiao, Z. Zhu*, P. Entwistle, and G. Yu. “Modeling Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Urban Waterways using Artificial Neural Networks”. ASCE-Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2018, 144(6): 05018003. (pdf)

  4. Z. Zhu*, V. Morales, M. García. “Impact of Combined Sewer Overflows on Urban River Hydrodynamic Modeling: A Case Study of the Chicago Waterway”. Urban Water Journal, 2017, 14(9): 984-989. (pdf)

  5. J. Quijano*, Z. Zhu, V. Morales, B. Landry, M. García. “Three-dimensional Model to Capture the Fate and Transport of Combined Sewer Overflow Discharges: A Case Study in the Chicago Area Waterway System”. Science of the Total Environment, 2017, 576: 362-373. (pdf)

  6. Z. Zhu*, N. Oberg, V. Morales, J. Quijano, B. Landry, M. García. “Integrated Urban Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling in Chicago, Illinois”. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2016, 77(3): 63-70. (pdf)

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Urban Water

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Rivers

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  1. H. Li*, Z. Tan, H. Ma, Z. Zhu, G. Abeshu, S. Zhu, S. Cohen, T. Zhou, D. Xu, and L. R. Leung. “A new large-scale suspended sediment model and its application over the United States”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2022. (pdf)

  2. G. Abeshu, H. Li*, Z. Zhu*, Z. Tan, and R. Leung. “Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous U.S.”. Earth System Science Data, 2022. (pdf)

  3. H. Khorasani, J. Xu, T. Nguyen, Z. Kralles, P. Westerhoff, N. Dai, and Z. Zhu*. “Contribution of Wastewater- Versus Non-Wastewater-Derived Sources to Haloacetonitriles Formation Potential in a Wastewater-Impacted River.” Science of the Total Environment, 2021. (pdf)

  4. D. Yin, L. Wang*, Z. Zhu, S. Clark, Y. Cao, J. Besek, and N. Dai. “Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and Cropland Change Affecting Water Quality: Evidence from Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing.” International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2021, 96:102272. (pdf)

  5. C. Liao, J. B. Xavier*, and Z. Zhu*. “Enhanced inference of ecological networks by parameterizing ensembles of population dynamics models constrained with prior knowledge.” BMC Ecology, 2020, 20:3. (pdf)

  6. Z. Zhu, D. T. Soong*, T. Garcia, M. Shahed Behrouz, S. E. Butler, E. A. Elizabeth, M. J. Diana, J. J. Duncker, and D. H. Wahl. “Using Reverse-time Egg Transport Analysis for Predicting Asian Carp Spawning Grounds in the Illinois River”. Ecological Modelling, 2018, 384(9): 53-62. (pdf)

  7. Z. Zhu*, J. LeRoy, B. Rhoads, and M. García. “HydroSedFoam: A New Parallelized Two-dimensional Hydrodynamic, Sediment Transport, and Bed Morphology Model”. Computers & Geosciences, 2018, 120(11): 32-39. (pdf)

  8. Z. Zhu*, D. Motta, P. R. Jackson, M. García. “Numerical Modeling of Simultaneous Tracer Release and Piscicide Treatment for Invasive Species Control in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago, Illinois”. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2017, 17(2): 211-229. (pdf)

  9. A. Goodwell, Z. Zhu, D. Dutta, J. Greenberg, P. Kumar*, M. García, B. Rhoads, R. Holmes, G. Parker, D. Berretta, R. Jacobson. “Assessment of Floodplain Vulnerability during Extreme Mississippi River Flood 2011”. Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48(5): 2619-2625. (pdf)

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Lakes

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  1. L. Li, J. Qiao, L. Wang, G. Yu, H. Li, C. Liao*, and Z. Zhu*. “Interpretable tree-based ensemble model for predicting beach water quality”. Water Research, 2022. (pdf)

  2. H. Khorasani and Z. Zhu*. “Phosphorus Retention in Lakes: A Critical Reassessment of Hypotheses and Static Models”. Journal of Hydrology, 2021. (pdf)

  3. L. Wang, Z. Zhu*, L. Sassoubre, G. Yu, C. Liao, Q. Hu, and Y. Wang. “Improving the Robustness of Beach Water Quality Modeling using an Ensemble Machine Learning Approach.” Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 765:142760. (pdf)

  4. Y. Hui*, J. F. Atkinson, Z. Zhu, D. Schlea, and T. Redder. “Invasive Dreissenid Mussel Effects on Phosphorus Dynamics in Lake Ontario: Insights from Integrated Hydrodynamic-Ecological Modeling.” Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2021. (pdf)

  5. Y. Hui, Z. Zhu*, J. F. Atkinson, and A. M. Saharia. “Impacts of Phosphorus Loading Temporal Pattern on Benthic Algae Growth in Lake Ontario.” Journal of Hydrology, 2021:126449. (pdf)

  6. Y. Hui*, D. Farnham, J. F. Atkinson, Z. Zhu, and Y. P. Feng. “Circulation in Lake Ontario: A Numerical and Physical Model Analysis.” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2021. (pdf)

  7. Y. Hui, Z. Zhu*, and J. F. Atkinson. “Mass Balance Analysis and Calculation of Wind Effects on Heat Fluxes and Water Temperature in a Large Lake”. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2018, 44: 1293-1305. (pdf)​

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Oil Spills

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  1. ​Y. Li, Z. Zhu*, D. Soong*, H. Khorasani, S. Wang, F. Fitzpatrick, and M. Garcia. “FluOil: A Novel Tool for Modeling the Transport of Oil-Particle Aggregates in Inland Waterways”. Frontiers in Water, 2022. (pdf)

  2. S. Wang*, Y. Yang, Z. Zhu, L. Jin, and S. Ou. “Riverine Deposition Pattern of Oil–Particle Aggregates Considering the Coagulation Effect.” Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 739:140371. (pdf)

  3. Z. Zhu*, D. Waterman, M. García. “Modeling the Transport of Oil-Particle Aggregates Resulting from an Oil Spill in a Freshwater Environment”. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2018, 18(4), 967-984. (pdf)

  4. F. A. Fitzpatrick*, M. Boufadel, R. Johnson, K. Lee, T. Graan, A. Bejarano, Z. Zhu, D. Waterman, D. Capone, E. Hayter, S. Hamilton, T. Dekker, M. H. García, and J. S. Hassan. “Oil-Particle Interactions and Submergence from Crude Oil Spills in Marine and Freshwater Environments – Review of the Science and Future Science Needs”. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1076, 2015. (pdf)

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