EUPALINOS – Laboratory of Urban Water Distribution Networks

EUPALINOS is a laboratory of urban water distribution networks (UWDN), focused on scientific and industrial research pertaining to the sustainable management of UWDN. EUPALINOS is coordinated by Dr. Symeon Christodoulou and has been the host of several nationally and internationally funded research projects. Examples of such projects relate to sustainability, risk-of-failure assessment and management, waterloss management, neurofuzzy systems and artificial agents in the management of UWDN, waterflow and path routing in piping networks, waterloss sensor development and sensor placement optimization, automatic meter reading, temporal-spatial analysis and GIS.

The total budget of the projects managed by EUPALINOS since 2004 is approximately 1.0 million euro. Currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar, a postdoc, two research associates, one PhD student and a number of graduate students are actively involved in various UWDN-related projects in the lab, with research work from the current and past research groups of EUPALINOS already published in several journals and conference proceedings, an edited proceedings book (Springer), two book chapters and two water-related special issues of high-impact scientific journals.