Flood risk in urban areas: Modelling, management and adaptation to climate change. A review

L Cea, P Costabile - Hydrology, 2022 - mdpi.com
The modelling and management of flood risk in urban areas are increasingly recognized as
global challenges. The complexity of these issues is a consequence of the existence of …

Urban surface water flood modelling–a comprehensive review of current models and future challenges

K Guo, M Guan, D Yu - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Urbanisation is an irreversible trend as a result of social and economic development. Urban
areas, with high concentration of population, key infrastructure, and businesses, are …

Impacts of building configurations on urban stormwater management at a block scale using XGBoost

S Zhou, Z Liu, M Wang, W Gan, Z Zhao, Z Wu - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban pluvial flooding has become a threatening hazard to ecosystem and human lives in
recent years. Identifying its driving factors is essential for stormwater management. A …

Experimental modelling of urban flooding: A review

E Mignot, X Li, B Dewals - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
We review the 45 available studies of urban flooding based on laboratory experiments. We
distinguish between the studies focusing on the flow in (i) a single street intersection,(ii) …

Is local flood hazard assessment in urban areas significantly influenced by the physical complexity of the hydrodynamic inundation model?

P Costabile, C Costanzo, G De Lorenzo… - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Flood hazard in urban areas is usually assessed by the estimations of parameters like flood
extent, water depths, flow velocities and other related quantities. These hydrodynamic …

A rapid flood inundation model for hazard mapping based on least squares support vector machine regression

M Bermúdez, L Cea, J Puertas - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐dimensional shallow water models are widely used tools for flood inundation mapping.
However, even if High Performance Computing techniques have greatly decreased the …

Influence of urban forms on surface flow in urban pluvial flooding

M Bruwier, C Maravat, A Mustafa, J Teller, M Pirotton… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a systematic analysis of the influence of nine urban characteristics
(distance between buildings, mean building size, building coverage, etc.) on surface flow in …

[HTML][HTML] Pluvial flooding: High-resolution stochastic hazard mapping in urban areas by using fast-processing DEM-based algorithms

L Mediero, E Soriano, P Oria, S Bagli, A Castellarin… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change and rapid expansion of urban areas are expected to increase pluvial flood
hazard and risk in the near future, and particularly so in large developed areas and cities …

Influence of urban pattern on inundation flow in floodplains of lowland rivers

M Bruwier, A Mustafa, DG Aliaga, P Archambeau… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to investigate the respective influence of various urban pattern
characteristics on inundation flow. A set of 2000 synthetic urban patterns were generated …

Flood inundation modeling in urbanized areas: A mesh-independent porosity approach with anisotropic friction

A Ferrari, DP Viero, R Vacondio, A Defina… - Advances in water …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present work, a porosity-based numerical scheme for the Shallow Water Equations is
presented. With the aim of accounting for the presence of storage areas, such as gardens …