Evaluation of approaches to calculate debris-flow parameters for hazard assessment

Engineering Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 152-163

  Hürlimann, Marcel ^a   Rickenmann, Dieter ^b,c   Medina, Vicente ^a   Bateman, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Hazard assessment; Pyrenees; Runout

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COLLOIDS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEBRIS; FLOW SIMULATION; FORECASTING; FRICTION; KETONES; LAND USE; LANTHANUM; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; RHEOLOGY; RISK PERCEPTION; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VELOCITY;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CALCULATED VALUES; DEBRIS FLOW; DEBRIS FLOWS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLOW PARAMETERS; FLOW RESISTANCE LAWS; FLOW ROUTING; FLUID RHEOLOGIES; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENTS; HAZARD MAPS; INPUT PARAMETERS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITIES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PREDICTION METHODS; PYRENEES; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RISK ZONING; RUNOUT; RUNOUT DISTANCES; SIMULATION RESULTS; TWO TYPES;

HAZARDS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEBRIS FLOW; FLOW VELOCITY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAP; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 56049127913     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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