Failure of dams arranged in series or in complex

Natural Hazards

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 917-939

  Dewals, Benjamin ^a,b   Erpicum, Sébastien ^a   Detrembleur, Sylvain ^a   Archambeau, Pierre ^a   Pirotton, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breach parameters; Dam breaching; Dam break in cascade; Depth averaged flow modeling; Finite volume; Hazard analysis; Lumped model; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DAM FAILURE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOOD; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; PREDICTION; RESERVOIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79951725438     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9600-z     Document Type: Article

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