[PDF][PDF] 2D modeling of big bay dam failure in mississippi: Comparison with Field Data and 1D Model Results

MS Altinakar, MZ McGrath, VP Ramalingam, H Omari - River Flow, 2010 - academia.edu
The failure of 17.4 m-high Big Bay Dam in southern Mississippi, USA, on March 12, 2004,
resulted in a catastrophic flood that damaged 104 homes or businesses, of which 48 were …

A mass‐conservative staggered immersed boundary model for solving the shallow water equations on complex geometries

A Canestrelli, A Spruyt, B Jagers… - … Methods in Fluids, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, an approach is proposed for solving the 3D shallow water equations with
embedded boundaries that are not aligned with the underlying horizontal Cartesian grid. A …

[PDF][PDF] New generation modeling and decision support tools for studying impacts of dam failures

MS Altinakar, EE Matheu, MZ McGrath - … of State Dam Safety Officials Dam …, 2009 - Citeseer
Dams and levees are one of the eighteen Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource sectors
identified by the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. Failure of dams could lead to highly …

Parallelized two-dimensional dam-break flood analysis with dynamic data structures

MS Altinakar, MZ McGrath - World Environmental and Water …, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
Numerical solution of shallow water equations using an explicit scheme are generally
implemented using array type data structures. The computation is performed by sweeping …

[PDF][PDF] An Enhanced Two-Dimensional Numerical Model for Simulating Floods Due to Dam and Levee Break/Breaching

MS Altinakar, MZ McGrath, VP Ramalingam… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - academia.edu
Failure of dams and levees may lead to catastrophic floods that would cause loss-oflife and
damage to urban and rural areas and may have serious consequences for the regional …

[PDF][PDF] Representation of dam-breach geometry on a regular 2-D mesh using quadtree local mesh refinement

M McGrath, MS Altinakar, E Miglio - Proceedings of the International …, 2010 - core.ac.uk
A 2D first order upwinding finite-volume scheme is used on a regular orthogonal mesh in a
numerical model to simulate dam break and dam breach flow from a reservoir. The …

City, climate change and floods. A contribution to the urban resilience study

LF Dias - Comprehensive Flood Risk Management: Research for …, 2012 - books.google.com
According to the most recent climate change scenarios, regarding greenhouse gases
anthropogenic emissions, the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events will …

[PDF][PDF] REPRESENTATION OF DAM-BREACH GEOMETRY ON A REGULAR 2-D MESH USING QUADTREE LOCAL MESH REFINEMENT

MS Altinakar, MZ McGrath, E Miglio - International Conference on …, 2010 - researchgate.net
A 2D first order upwinding finite-volume scheme is used on a regular orthogonal mesh in a
numerical model to simulate dam break and dam breach flow from a reservoir. The …