Advances in Flood Inundation Modelling
Event details
| Date | 13.03.2012 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Gareth Pender, Heriot Watt University, UK |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The seminar will present flood inundation modelling research undertaken by super work package 1 of the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC). The FRMRC is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research project funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Environment Agency. The presentation will provide an overview of each of Super Work Package 1’s technical work packages, covering: • Hydrodynamic modelling to support enhanced flood risk management. • Inundation modelling to support uncertainty analysis. • Rapid flood spreading. • Guidance on uncertainty estimation in fluvial flood management. A detailed discussion will follow on those aspects of the research led by Heriot Watt University. Firstly, the theory and implementation of rapid flood spreading will be discussed. Here simplified equations are used to provide extremely computationally efficient predictions of flood inundation extent and flood hazard. Such, techniques are useful for national scale flood hazard prediction and uncertainty analysis. Secondly, the outcomes of a benchmarking exercise for two-dimensional flood inundation models will be presented. To facilitate this, a set of benchmark test cases have been developed. These are designed to differentiate between the performance characteristics of the wide range of commercially available two-dimensional flood inundation models. Conclusions will be drawn on the suitability of different model types for practical application.
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- General public
- Free
Contact
- Prof. D. Andrew Barry, ECOL