Developments of a flood inundation model based on the cellular automata approach: Testing different methods to improve model performance

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 266-280

  Dottori, F ^a   Todini, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular automata model; Flood propagation; Inundation modelling; Local time step; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELS; CONSTANT TIME; FLOOD PROPAGATION; INUNDATION MODELLING; LOCAL TIME STEP; LOCAL TIME STEPS; LOCAL-ADAPTIVE; LOSS OF ACCURACY; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL-BASED; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; RUNTIMES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRAULIC MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DISCHARGE; FLOOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 79955132054     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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