Of several problems associated with theoretical explanations of the jokul­ hlaups which emerge from the outlet glacier Skeioararj okull of the ice c ap Vatnajokull i n southeast Iceland, the mechanism of flood ini ti atio n i s one that has h itherto defied explanation. We provide such an explanation based on a careful analysis of the classical Nye-Rothlisberger model; near the subglacial lake ...

Dam breaks of landslide dams are always accompanied by large numbers of casualties, a large loss of property, and negative influences on the downstream ecology and environment. This study uses the Jiadanwan landslide dam, created by the Wenchuan earthquake, as a case study example. Several laboratory experiments are carried out to analyse the dam-break mechanism of the landslide dam. The differ...

There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has traditionally been obtained through two alternative research approaches. The first approach is the data-based detection of changes i...

Simulation of free surface flow and sudden wave profile are recognized as the most challenging problem in computational hydraulics. Several Eulerian/Lagrangian approaches and models can be implemented for simulating such phenomena in which the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method (SPH) is categorized as a proper candidate. The incompressible SPH (ISPH) method hires a precise incompressible hy...

Abstract The simulation of Concrete Gravitational Dam burst floods is an important research content in the field disaster prevention and mitigation water conservancy projects. Due to extreme rainfall, earthquake, structure failure etc., concrete gravitational dam usually breaks a short time period. break flood will give risk downstream communities. Taking Kaliwa Philippines as example, based on...

flood is considered as a major threat among natural disasters in the world. this case becomes more important and has a higher risk in urban areas due to the existence of important uses. therefore, to reduce damages resulted from flood, this phenomenon must be managed and planned using structural and non-structural approaches. considering the development in iran has been carried out in high risk...

A new agricultural flood losses prediction method using digital elevation data combined with agricultural economic data is presented. The method is based on dynamically simulating the procedure of flood out. An example in Huangdunhu flood detention area, Jiangshu province of China has been given to describe how to use it to predict the incoming agricultural losses. Compared with prior methods, ...