Projet interreg IVb - Rapport d'activité intermédiaire pour le comité d'accompagnement

Report (2010)

Inondations en aval ... Impacts, risque et mesures de protection / gestion

Conference (2010, May 20)

Integrated flood risk analysis for assessing flood protection strategies

in Tagelsir, Gasmelseid (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies Theories and Applications (2010)

The present chapter describes an end-to-end methodology for assessing flood protection strategies, including the whole methodological process from hydrological statistics to detailed 2D hydraulic ... [more ▼]

The present chapter describes an end-to-end methodology for assessing flood protection strategies, including the whole methodological process from hydrological statistics to detailed 2D hydraulic modelling, damage calculation and flood risk evaluation. This risk-based approach serves as a component of a decision-support system (DSS) developed in Belgium for identifying cost-effective flood management strategies in the context of climate change. The DSS accounts for both hydraulic and socio-economic parameters to quantify the benefits (in terms of avoided risk) and the cost of each strategy. Besides reviewing fundamentals of flood risk assessment, including the inundation model and main concepts related to flood risk, a consistent methodology for micro-scale flood risk analysis is presented in detail, combining complementary sources of GIS information such as high resolution and high accuracy land use database as well as socio-economic datasets. Finally a case study on a main tributary of river Meuse in Belgium is described. [less ▲]

Flood Protection Design Based on Micro-scale Risk Modelling

Poster (2010, April 22)

Caractérisation micro-échelle du risque d’inondation : modélisation hydraulique détaillée et impacts socio-économiques

in Risque d'Inondation en Ile de France, 100 ans après les crues de 1910 (2010, March)

Considered flood protections for river Ourthe and their expected impact on flood risk

Conference (2009, October 06)

Planning flood risk reducing measures based on combined hydraulic and socio-economic impact modelling at a micro-scale

in Christodoulou, S. E. (Ed.) Proc. 7th Int. Conf. on Water Resources Conservancy and Risk Reduction Under Climatic Uncertainty (2009, June)

Risk management is currently shifting from the full protection against flooding towards the management of the consequences of flooding. To reduce these consequences, micro-scale analysis is compelled. In ... [more ▼]

Risk management is currently shifting from the full protection against flooding towards the management of the consequences of flooding. To reduce these consequences, micro-scale analysis is compelled. In addition to the hydraulic modelling of the inundation flow, nearby land use and vulnerability of elements-at-risk are taken into consideration. This new approach requests an interdisciplinary collaboration of scientists from hydraulic and social science, as is the case for this paper. The research teams have developed a methodology to evaluate socio-economic consequences of flooding based on the analysis at the micro-scale of the flood characteristics, the exposure and the vulnerability of elements-at-risk and the adaptive capacity of society. The hydrodynamic simulations are conducted by means of 2D flow modelling run on a highly accurate Digital Surface Model - DSM with a resolution of 2 by 2 meters. The two-dimensional modelling provides high resolution flood maps detailing the distribution of water depth and flow velocity field in the floodplains, which constitute key inputs for the subsequent flood risk analysis. The methodology will be illustrated for a case study along River Ourthe, which is the main tributary of River Meuse in Belgium, for selecting and designing flood protection measure. The geographic data in this area are available at a resolution consistent with the conducted micro-scale risk analysis. They include data on social vulnerability coming from the most recent socio-economic national survey (NIS). [less ▲]

Social Flood Impacts in Urban Areas: Integration of Detailed Flow Modelling and Social Analysis

in Proc. 33rd IAHR Congress: Water Engineering for a Sustainable Environment (2009)

Dam Break Flow Modelling and Geographical Distribution of the Roughness Coefficient

in Proc. 33rd IAHR Congress: Water Engineering for a Sustainable Environment (pp. 2429-2436) (2009)

Dam break flow modelling is a major field of research. In order to enable risk analysis in the downstream valleys of dams, 2D numerical simulations are of prime interest. These are based on the ... [more ▼]

Dam break flow modelling is a major field of research. In order to enable risk analysis in the downstream valleys of dams, 2D numerical simulations are of prime interest. These are based on the conservative set of shallow water equations. Beyond their numerical implementation, the challenge of the computation relies on the ability to handle very huge sets of high-precision data, in order to get the highest possible accuracy, whereas the computational time must remain realistic for simulations carried out on real valleys topography. In this paper, a simulation on about 2 500 000 cells is presented. Particularly, the results are compared and discussed regarding especially the exploitation of landuse data for the roughness. Beyond the examples of validation, the relevance of the developed methodology appears to be essential in the framework of risk analysis. [less ▲]

Effect of climate change on flood risk along river Ourthe

Conference (2008, November 12)