In response to climatic change, the size and number of moraine-dammed supraglacial and
proglacial lake systems have increased dramatically in recent decades. Given an …

Infrastructure embankment failures due to flooding have been recorded in many countries.
The consequences of flood-induced embankment failures have mainly been limited to …

A large number of embankment structures, including dams, levees, dikes, and barriers, have
been built by humans or formed naturally along rivers, lakes, and coastal lines around the …

Dikes along rivers protect a valley and its people and property from floods. Recent dike
failures due to overtopping highlight the need to understand this damage process. Its …

Hydraulic engineering of dams and their appurtenant structures counts among the essential
tasks to successfully design safe water-retaining reservoirs for hydroelectric power …

Abstract Evaluation of breach flood of landslide or artificial dams is usually performed by
combining the hydraulic modeling of the breach flow and geotechnical analysis of the …

Modeling of flooding events resulting from bank overflooding and levee breaching is of
relevant social and environmental interest. Two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic models …

Due to increased flood discharges during the past years, overtopping of dikes and earthen
embankments has caused large damages to the surrounding infrastructure and the …

Levee failure due to overtopping during floods is a common phenomena. An experimental
study was conducted in the hydraulics laboratory, University of South Carolina, to develop …

Accurate predictions of breach characteristics are necessary to reliably estimate the outflow
hydrograph and the resulting inundation close to fluvial dikes. Laboratory experiments on …