How much physical complexity is needed to model flood inundation?

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2264-2282

  Neal, Jeffrey ^a   Villanueva, Ignacio ^b   Wright, Nigel ^c   Willis, Thomas ^c   Fewtrell, Timothy ^d   Bates, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Ofiteco Ltd   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Flood inundation; Hydraulic modelling; Physical complexity; Simple models

Indexed keywords

ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT AGENCY; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FLOOD HAZARDS; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; FUTURE MODELS; INERTIA MODEL; PHYSICAL COMPLEXITY; SHALLOW WATER WAVES; SIMULATION TIME; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; TEST CASE; THREE MODELS; TIME-STEPPING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS;

BENCHMARKING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FLOOD CONTROL;

BENCHMARKING; COMPLEXITY; FLOOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WATER WAVE;

EID: 84861397993     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8339     Document Type: Article

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