Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering

Entropy theory has wide applications to a range of problems in the fields of environmental and water engineering including river hydraulic geometry fluvial hydraulics water monitoring network design river flow forecasting floods and droughts river network analysis infiltration soil moisture sediment transport surface water and groundwater quality modeling ecosystems modeling water distribution networks environmental and water resources management and parameter estimation. Such applications have used several different entropy formulations such as Shannon Tsallis Rényi Burg Kolmogorov Kapur configurational and relative entropies which can be derived in time space or frequency domains. More recently entropy-based concepts have been coupled with other theories including copula and wavelets to study various issues associated with environmental and water resources systems. Recent studies indicate the enormous scope and potential of entropy theory in advancing research in the fields of environmental and water engineering including establishing and explaining physical connections between theory and reality.The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for compiling important recent and current research on the applications of entropy theory in environmental and water engineering. The contributions to this Special Issue have addressed many aspects associated with entropy theory applications and have shown the enormous scope and potential of entropy theory in advancing research in the fields of environmental and water engineering.