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

[en] The objective of this paper is to investigate the respective influence of various urban pattern characteristics on inundation flow. A set of 2,000 synthetic urban patterns were generated using an urban procedural model providing locations and shapes of streets and buildings over a square domain of 1 x 1 km². Steady two-dimensional hydraulic computations were performed over the 2,000 urban patterns with identical hydraulic boundary conditions. To run such a large amount of simulations, the computational efficiency of the hydraulic model was improved by using an anisotropic porosity model. This model computes on relatively coarse computational cells, but preserves information from the detailed topographic data through porosity parameters. Relationships between urban characteristics and the computed inundation water depths have been based on multiple linear regressions. Finally, a simple mechanistic model based on two district-scale porosity parameters, combining several urban characteristics, is shown to capture satisfactorily the influence of urban characteristics on inundation water depths. The findings of this study give guidelines for more flood-resilient urban planning.

Disciplines :

Civil engineering

Author, co-author :

Bruwier, Martin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering

Mustafa, Ahmed Mohamed El Saeid ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > LEMA (Local environment management and analysis)

Aliaga, Daniel G.; Purdue University - Purdue > Department of Computer Science

Archambeau, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > HECE (Hydraulics in Environnemental and Civil Engineering)

Erpicum, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Scientifiques attachés au Doyen (Sc.appliquées)

Nishida, Gen; Purdue University - Purdue > Department of Computer Science

Zhang, Xiao; Purdue University - Purdue > Department of Computer Science

Pirotton, Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > HECE (Hydraulics in Environnemental and Civil Engineering)

Teller, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire

Dewals, Benjamin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering

Language :

English

Title :

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

Publication date :

01 May 2018

Journal title :

Science of the Total Environment

ISSN :

0048-9697

eISSN :

1879-1026

Publisher :

Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume :

622–623

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Name of the research project :

FloodLand

Funders :

ARC grant for Concerted Research Actions, financed by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

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