A coarse-grid approach to representing building blockage effects in 2D urban flood modelling

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 426-427, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Chen, Albert S ^a   Evans, Barry ^a   Djordjević, Slobodan ^a   Savić, Dragan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building blockage effect; Building coverage ratio (BCR); Conveyance reduction factors (CRFs); Urban Inundation Model (UIM)

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; AVERAGE ELEVATION; BUILDING BLOCKAGE; COARSE GRID; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTING COST; COMPUTING HARDWARE; CONVEYANCE REDUCTION FACTORS (CRFS); COVERAGE RATIO; FINE GRIDS; FINE RESOLUTION; FLOOD MODELLING; FLOW DYNAMICS; HIGH QUALITY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; LIMITING FACTORS; REDUCTION FACTOR; TERRAIN DATA; TERRAIN MODEL; URBAN AREAS; URBAN FLOODS; URBAN INUNDATION MODEL (UIM);

ERRORS; LANDFORMS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BUILDING; COST; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; HARDWARE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERRAIN; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DRAINAGE;

EID: 84857191602     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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