1. A numerical exploration of transient decay mechanisms in water distribution systems -- 2. Mathematical modeling of hydraulic transients in simple systems -- 3. Modeling one and two-phase water hammer flows -- 4. Water hammer and hydrodynamics' instability -- 5. Hadraulic flow control in binary mixtures -- 6. An efficient accurate shock-capturing scheme for modeling water hammer flows -- 7. Applied hydraulic transients : automation and advanced control -- 8. Improved numerical modeling for perturbations in homogeneous and stratified flows -- 9. Computational model for water hammer disaster -- 10. Heat and mass transfer in binary mixtures : a computational approach.