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Apr 26, 2012
Representation of Linear Terrain Features in a 2D Flood Model with Regular Cartesian Mesh
Authors: Mustafa Altinakar [email protected], Marcus McGrath [email protected], Yavuz Ozeren [email protected], and Edie Miglio [email protected] (visiting scientist at NCCHE during 2007)Author Affiliations
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers
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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-capturing schemes are particularly suited to simulate these mixed-regime floods for flood mapping, consequence analysis and emergency management planning. The Digital Elevation Models (DEM) are often used as a regular computational mesh. Unfortunately, linear terrain features, such as road and railroad embankments and dikes, which may influence flood patterns, are not adequately captured in DEMs. This study describes a two-sided cut-cell boundary method for representing linear terrain features on a regular Cartesian mesh. The proposed method is briefly described and some test simulations are presented.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Analysis (by type)
- Dam failures
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Engineering fundamentals
- Failures (by type)
- Floods
- Geography
- Geomatics
- Linear functions
- Man-made disasters
- Mathematical functions
- Mathematics
- Models (by type)
- Numerical models
- Terrain
- Terrain models
- Two-dimensional analysis
- Two-dimensional models
- Water and water resources
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NCCHE, The University of Mississippi. Carrier Hall, Room 102, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848. E-mail: [email protected]
NCCHE, The University of Mississippi. Carrier Hall, Room 102, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848. E-mail: [email protected]
NCCHE, The University of Mississippi. Carrier Hall, Room 102, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848. E-mail: [email protected]
MOX, Dept. of Mathematics "F. Brioschi", Politecnico di Milano. Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] (visiting scientist at NCCHE during 2007)
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