Forensic engineering analysis applied to flood control

Floods have various impacts, including loss of life and damage to property. Flood- management reservoirs can help mitigate floods, but their operation also worsen flood impacts. This paper presents a novel forensic engineering approach assess the role reservoir on control. Fourteen criteria are employed for assessing forecast-based prereleases water from storage reduce impact flooding. The proposed is applied assessment system performance during large 2019 in southwestern Iran (the Great Karun Basin). two main study areas sub-basins Dez. Results concerning key peak discharge reduction (PDR) volume (FVR)) show PDR criterion sub-basin multi-reservoir reached about 79% (where 100% theoretically best performance) under historic operations (actual operating conditions 2019), improved 8 19% if prerelease were made. FVR achieved 33% historical situation 20 59% scenarios, respectively. 26% scenario, with better could exceed 55% Dez system, whereas was as low 11% be raised between 15 25% operations. work’s assessments establish that by applying specialized approaches.