About

Bruno Brunone, with 40 as a total years research experience in research, received a M.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’. He is a Professor, founder and Director of the Water Engineering Laboratory (WEL) of the University of Perugia (http://welabpg.com). He is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management; MDPI Journal of Marine Science and Engineering and Water; he has been the chair of CCWI2013 and WDSA2014 Int. Confs, promoter and chair of the series of the Italian Confs on pipe systems (eleven editions, since 2003). His present research concerns: transient test-based techniques for the analysis of pipe system performance throughout the urban environment (fault/leak detection); devices for pressure wave generation and their use in real pipe systems; modelling of transients in pressurized pipe systems: unsteady friction simulation, viscoelastic effects in polymeric pipes; management of groundwater and lakes by atmospheric global datasets. Bruno Brunone received the following awards: IAHR Fellowship (2025); “Leak detection in a real transmission main through transient tests: deeds and misdeeds”: Water Resources Research, AGU: 2021 Editors’ Choice Award; Outstanding Reviewer for the ASCE J. Pipeline Syst. Eng. Pract. (2022); J. C. Stevens Award by the Environmental and Water Resources Inst. (EWRI) (2018); Sustainability Award for the Portable Pressure Wave Maker (PPWM) device by H2O Bologna International Water Exhibition (2016); Accademia Pontaniana Award, Napoli (1983). He has been invited as keynote lecturer in several Int. Conferences (most recent: 2023: 40th IAHR World Congress (Special Session on Transients), Wien, Austria; 2021: IAHR online short course on ‘Transient Flows: from Theory to Practice’; 2020: 7th Int. Conf. on “Civil Engineering (ICCE2020)”, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China; 2019: 7th ICAMEM2019 Int. Conference, Hammamet, Tunisia; 2019: 10th Global Leakage Summit, London, UK). Bruno Brunone carries out consultancy activities for many water supply companies (recent projects: Acea ATO 2 SpA; AcegasApsAmga, Padova; Società Metropolitana Acque Torino (SMAT) SpA, Torino; Novareti SpA, Trento; Gruppo CAP, Milano; AMAP, Palermo; Metropolitana Milanese SpA, Milano; Commissario Straordinario Sicurezza del Sistema Idrico del Gran Sasso). With over 360 scientific publications, including 150+ in indexed journals, Bruno Brunone is a highly cited researcher.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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His main research interests concern the modelling of transients in pressurized flows and transient test-based techniques for fault detection in pipe systems, with particular attention to the experimental aspects.

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