Building treatments for urban flood inundation models and implications for predictive skill and modeling efficiency

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-64

  Schubert, Jochen E ^a,b   Sanders, Brett F ^a,b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Building outlines; Dam break; Mesh generation; Porosity; Unstructured grid; Urban flood inundation modeling

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; BUILDING GEOMETRY; BUILDING METHODS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; DAM-BREAKS; EXECUTION TIME; FINE GRIDS; FLOOD FLOW; FLOOD RISK REDUCTION; INTENSITY PREDICTION; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; MODELING OBJECTIVES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL FLOW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SET-UP TIME; TIME CONSTRAINTS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; URBAN AREAS; URBAN FLOODS; URBAN LANDSCAPE; VELOCITY FIELD;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; MESH GENERATION; POROSITY; STREAM FLOW; VELOCITY;

BUILDINGS;

DAM FAILURE; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POROSITY; UNSTEADY FLOW; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860629874     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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