SWASHES: a compilation of shallow water analytic solutions for hydraulic and environmental studies

O Delestre, C Lucas, PA Ksinant… - … Methods in Fluids, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous codes are being developed to solve shallow water equations. Because these are
used in hydraulic and environmental studies, their capability to simulate flow dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Review of historical dam-break events and laboratory tests on real topography for the validation of numerical models

F Aureli, A Maranzoni, G Petaccia - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dam break inundation mapping is essential for risk management and mitigation, emergency
action planning, and potential consequences assessment. To quantify flood hazard …

A simple and efficient unstructured finite volume scheme for solving the shallow water equations in overland flow applications

L Cea, E Bladé - Water resources research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the decoupled hydrological discretization (DHD) scheme for solving the
shallow water equations in hydrological applications involving surface runoff in rural and …

The GeoClaw software for depth-averaged flows with adaptive refinement

MJ Berger, DL George, RJ LeVeque… - Advances in Water …, 2011 - Elsevier
Many geophysical flow or wave propagation problems can be modeled with two-
dimensional depth-averaged equations, of which the shallow water equations are the …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution 2D shallow water modelling of dam failure floods for emergency action plans

A Ferrari, R Vacondio, P Mignosa - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a procedure based on high-resolution shallow water modelling for
assessing dam-failure hypothetical scenarios that can be useful for designing emergency …

Two-dimensional, high-resolution modeling of urban dam-break flooding: A case study of Baldwin Hills, California

HA Gallegos, JE Schubert, BF Sanders - Advances in water resources, 2009 - Elsevier
Modeling of dam-break flooding in an urban residential area in southern California is
presented. Modeling is performed using BreZo, an unstructured grid, Godunov-type, finite …

Enhancing river model set-up for 2-D dynamic flood modelling

P Costabile, F Macchione - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Flood hazard mapping is a topic of increasing interest involving several aspects in which a
series of progress steps have occurred in recent years. Among these, a valuable advance …

Earthen embankment breaching

ASCE/EWRI Task Committee on Dam … - Journal of hydraulic …, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
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 …

Experimental validation of two-dimensional depth-averaged models for forecasting rainfall–runoff from precipitation data in urban areas

L Cea, M Garrido, J Puertas - Journal of Hydrology, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents an experimental validation of two widely used numerical models in
urban flood inundation studies, the two-dimensional dynamic and diffusive wave models …

Analysis and dynamic modeling of a moraine failure and glacier lake outburst flood at Ventisquero Negro, Patagonian Andes (Argentina)

R Worni, M Stoffel, C Huggel, C Volz, A Casteller… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Although moraine dams are inherently prone to failure because of their often weak structure,
loose internal composition and lack of an engineered spillway, the understanding of dam …