Flood Inundation Modelling to Support Flood Risk Management

Flood Risk Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 234-257

  Pender, Gareth ^a   Néelz, Sylvain ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational grids; Digital Terrain Model (DTM); Discretization of the physical space; Flood Inundation Modelling to Support Flood Risk Management; Model parameterization and terrain geometry; One dimensional (1D) flow modelling; The challenges of urban inundation modelling; Two dimensional (2D) flow modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881654297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324846.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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