Review of historical dam-break events and laboratory tests on real topography for the validation of numerical models

F Aureli, A Maranzoni, G Petaccia - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dam break inundation mapping is essential for risk management and mitigation, emergency
action planning, and potential consequences assessment. To quantify flood hazard …

Performances of the new HEC-RAS version 5 for 2-D hydrodynamic-based rainfall-runoff simulations at basin scale: Comparison with a state-of-the art model

P Costabile, C Costanzo, D Ferraro, F Macchione… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Hydrologic Engineering Centre-River Analysis System (HEC-RAS), developed by the
US Army Corps of Engineers, is one of the most known, analyzed and used model for flood …

Propagating dam breach parametric uncertainty in a river reach using the HEC-RAS software

V Bellos, VK Tsakiris, G Kopsiaftis, G Tsakiris - Hydrology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Dam break studies consist of two submodels:(a) the dam breach submodel which derives
the flood hydrograph and (b) the hydrodynamic submodel which, using the flood …

Copernicus user uptake: From data to applications

L Apicella, M De Martino, A Quarati - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The European Programme Copernicus, one of the principal sources of free and open Earth
Observation (EO) data, intends to sustain social and economic advancements to the …

Juvenile fish stranding induced by upstream gate operation: A risk assessment through eco-hydraulic modeling

P Espa, G Petaccia, L Servanzi, S Sibilla - Ecological Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapidly changing flows in regulated rivers can significantly impair freshwater biotas. At
present, this issue is mostly addressed by hydropeaking research. In contrast, only limited …

Hydrological and hydraulic flood hazard modeling in poorly gauged catchments: An analysis in Northern Italy

F Aureli, P Mignosa, F Prost, S Dazzi - Hydrology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flood hazard is assessed for a watershed with scarce hydrological data in the lower plain of
Northern Italy, where the current defense system is inadequate to protect a highly populated …

New formulation of the two-dimensional steep-slope shallow water equations. Part I: Theory and analysis

A Maranzoni, M Tomirotti - Advances in Water Resources, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) depth-averaged shallow water equations (SWE) are widely
used to model unsteady free surface flows, such as flooding processes, including those due …

[HTML][HTML] Historical comparison of the damage caused by the propagation of a dam break wave in a pre-alpine valley

R Bonomelli, G Farina, M Pilotti, D Molinari… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Valle Camonica basin and Lake Iseo in the Italian pre-alpine and
alpine region. Study focus This paper provides the first hydraulic reconstruction of the …

Experimental dataset and numerical simulation of floating bodies transport in open-channel flow

E Persi, G Petaccia, S Sibilla, P Brufau… - Journal of …, 2020 - iwaponline.com
Numerical models trying to faithfully represent the movement of floating bodies transport in
open-channel flow require experimental data for validation. In order to provide an adequate …

A one-way coupled hydrodynamic advection-diffusion model to simulate congested large wood transport

E Persi, G Petaccia, S Sibilla, R Bentivoglio, A Armanini - Hydrology, 2021 - mdpi.com
An advection-diffusion model is proposed to simulate large wood transport during high
flows. The mathematical model is derived from the wood mass balance, taking into …