Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends
Environmental Hydraulics (EH) is the scientific study of environmental water flows and their related transport and transformation processes in natural water systems. This review provides some remarks about the historical development of EH throughout three different paradigms or ages, namely, the Pub...
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| description | Environmental Hydraulics (EH) is the scientific study of environmental water flows and their related transport and transformation processes in natural water systems. This review provides some remarks about the historical development of EH throughout three different paradigms or ages, namely, the Public Health Age, the Water Quality Age, and finally the Integrated Environmental Hydraulics Age. We further evaluate how EH research has changed in the last 20 years through a bibliometric analysis of the proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (ISEH) and Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFMC) journal articles conducted using Citespace and Leximancer. Authors and affiliations are analyzed to identify patterns of collaboration, followed by an analysis of the temporal evolution of the EFMC impact index as well as its highly-cited articles. Finally, the major EH topics are identified with a comparison between the topics extracted from the two different sources. As the EH field is becoming rapidly global, some topics were confirmed to have attracted more interest in EH such as Flow Condition, Numerical Modelling, Experimental Measurements. It is hoped that our findings could provide a reference for students, academics, and policy-makers related to EH. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5e35fed1b0d4405c95fc0361e97061452023-11-21T14:44:55ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412021-04-01138102110.3390/w13081021Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research TrendsXianglai Zeng0Carlo Gualtieri1Haifei Liu2Dongdong Shao3State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaDepartment of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ItalyState Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaEnvironmental Hydraulics (EH) is the scientific study of environmental water flows and their related transport and transformation processes in natural water systems. This review provides some remarks about the historical development of EH throughout three different paradigms or ages, namely, the Public Health Age, the Water Quality Age, and finally the Integrated Environmental Hydraulics Age. We further evaluate how EH research has changed in the last 20 years through a bibliometric analysis of the proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (ISEH) and Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFMC) journal articles conducted using Citespace and Leximancer. Authors and affiliations are analyzed to identify patterns of collaboration, followed by an analysis of the temporal evolution of the EFMC impact index as well as its highly-cited articles. Finally, the major EH topics are identified with a comparison between the topics extracted from the two different sources. As the EH field is becoming rapidly global, some topics were confirmed to have attracted more interest in EH such as Flow Condition, Numerical Modelling, Experimental Measurements. It is hoped that our findings could provide a reference for students, academics, and policy-makers related to EH.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/8/1021Environmental Hydraulics (EH)historical developmentbibliometric analysisresearch topicsCitespaceLeximancer |
| spellingShingle | Xianglai Zeng Carlo Gualtieri Haifei Liu Dongdong Shao Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends Water Environmental Hydraulics (EH) historical development bibliometric analysis research topics Citespace Leximancer |
| title | Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends |
| title_full | Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends |
| title_fullStr | Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends |
| title_short | Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends |
| title_sort | environmental hydraulics in the new millennium historical evolution and recent research trends |
| topic | Environmental Hydraulics (EH) historical development bibliometric analysis research topics Citespace Leximancer |
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