Shallow Water Modeling

Dear Colleagues,

Climatic changes occurring in the world lead to more and more frequent extreme hydrological events, often associated to floods, debris flow, and landslides. Public administrations and land owners need reliable tools to predict water depths, mean velocities, and solid transport occurring during the forecasted events.

Shallow water modeling (SWM) is one of the main pillars available today to support the evaluation of the associated hydraulic risk. Recent advances in computer methods and computational hardware allow the inclusion of SWM in the standard management tools of public authorities and private managers of both urban and not-urban areas. SWM can also be a tool for the building information modeling (BIM) approach recently adopted for the design of civil infrastructures.

In the more general effort to model natural processes and to prevent pollution, SWM can link many physical processes occurring overground and below its surface, such as heat transfer or chemical and biological transformations. SWM can also be easily coupled to 1D vertical models like the infiltration process leading to the rainfall–runoff transformation, or the multiphase vertical transfer occurring in lakes, lagoons and other natural water bodies, as well as to models for the study of river hydraulics, morphodynamics, and sediment transport.

Prof. Dr. Tullio Tucciarelli
Prof. Dr. Francesco Macchione
Prof. Dr. Carlo Gualtieri
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Rosatti
Dr. Silvia Barbetta
Guest Editors

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