[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 …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling and risk analysis for floods due to failure of water control infrastructures

MS Altinakar, MZ McGrath, Y Ozeren… - Proceedings (CD-ROM) of …, 2008 - Citeseer
There are currently about 79,000 dams in the USA. Of these, about 14% are high-hazard
dams and 16% are classified as significant hazard dams. Their failure may cause loss-of-life …

Representation of linear terrain features in a 2D flood model with regular Cartesian mesh

M Altinakar, M McGrath, Y Ozeren… - World Environmental and …, 2009 - ascelibrary.org
Highly transient floods resulting from the failure of dams and levees can lead to loss of life
and property damage. Two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations that use modern shock …

[PDF][PDF] Two-Sided Cut-Cell Boundary Method for Simulating Linear Terrain features and 1D Stream Flows on a 2D Rectangular Mesh

MS Altinakar, MZ McGrath, Y Ozeren, E Miglio - Proc. of the 33rd …, 2009 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT A two-dimensional (2D) finite volume model that uses a first order upwinding
scheme to simulate dam break floods over a complex topography, represented by a digital …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] Risk and Vulnerability Studies for Water Infrastructures Using a GIS-Based Decision Support System with 2D Numerical Flood Modeling

MS Altinakar, M McGrath, E Fijolek, E Miglio - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2008 - Citeseer
Failure of water control structures such as dams and levees generally lead to highly dynamic
catastrophic floods that can cause loss-of-life and considerable damage to property and …

2D shallow water GPU parallelized scheme for high resolution real-field flood simulations

R Vacondio, F Aureli, P Mignosa… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In this paper a parallelization of a Shallow Water numerical scheme suitable for Graphics
Processor Unit (GPU) architectures under the NVIDIATM's Compute Unified Device …