Water provide- and drainage structures and combined water channel structures are networks whose excessive dynamic is set and/or stricken by client conduct on ingesting water at the one hand and via weather stipulations, specifically rainfall, nevertheless. in line with their dimension, water networks encompass hundreds and hundreds or hundreds of thousands of process parts. additionally, kinds of judgements (continuous and discrete) need to be taken within the water administration. The networks need to be optimized by way of topology and operation by way of focusing on various standards. standards may possibly for instance be monetary, social or ecological ones and will compete with one another.

The improvement of complicated version structures and their use for deriving optimum judgements in water administration is occurring at a quick speed. Simulation and optimization tools originating in Operations learn were used for numerous a long time; frequently with very restricted direct cooperation with utilized mathematics. 

The study offered the following goals at bridging this hole, thereby starting up area for synergies and innovation. it's at once appropriate for appropriate functional difficulties and has been performed in cooperation with software and dumping businesses, infrastructure companies and making plans places of work. an in depth and direct connection to the perform of water administration has been validated by way of concerning application-oriented information from the sector of civil engineering. at the mathematical part all valuable disciplines have been concerned, together with mixed-integer optimization, multi-objective and facility place optimization, numerics for cross-linked dynamic transportation platforms and optimization in addition to keep watch over of hybrid systems. 

Most of the offered learn has been supported by means of the joint undertaking „Discret-continuous optimization of dynamic water structures“ of the federal ministry of schooling and examine (BMBF).