Editorial: Special Issue of 22nd Iranian Conference on Hydraulics

During almost a decade of publication, the Journal of Hydraulic Structures (JHS) has tried to fulfill its mission of expanding engineering knowledge in related specialized fields, acting as a bridge between academic experts and executive engineers. For this purpose, in addition to receiving, reviewing and publishing high quality scientific articles that contain the latest scientific achievements in the specialized field of the journal, from now on it will try to play its role in expanding the frontiers of knowledge by publishing the selected articles of prestigious specialized conferences. This is because due to the high speed of scientific advances on the one hand, and the relatively lengthy process of writing, submitting, reviewing and publishing articles in scientific journals on the other hand, many developments in scientific fields are exposed to interested people with a relatively long delay in specialized publications, while such articles are usually presented at a faster rate in specialized conferences and meetings. Therefore, it would be good to publish a selection of the premier articles presented in prestigious conferences in JHS to facilitate publicizing the latest scientific achievements in the field.
Based on this idea, the Journal of Hydraulic Structures, through an agreement with the 22^nd Iranian Conference on Hydraulics (Nov. 2023), which is one of the most prestigious national conferences in this field, agreed that the selected articles of this conference, which were peer-reviewed by the reviewers board of the conference, be published in the form of a special issue. The present collection, which was selected by the conference as the premier articles, is made available outside of the usual reviewing process of the journal and under the responsibility of the conference jury. We hope that it would be of interest to the JHS’s readers.