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5 Citations
1,743 Views
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21 September 2023

The existing flood stochastic simulation methods are mostly applied to the stochastic simulation of flood intensity characteristics, with less consideration for the randomness of the flood hydrograph shape and its correlation with intensity character...

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  • Open Access
1,232 Views
18 Pages

9 February 2025

Flood disasters pose one of the greatest threats to humanity. Effectively addressing this challenge requires improving the accuracy of flood simulation. Taking Xunhe watershed in Shandong Province as the study area, the Random Forest model was utiliz...

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  • Open Access
3,092 Views
15 Pages

An Extended Flood Characteristic Simulation Considering Natural Dependency Structures

  • Marco Albert Öttl,
  • Felix Simon,
  • Jens Bender,
  • Christoph Mudersbach and
  • Jürgen Stamm

6 December 2023

The design of a river-basin-specific flood hydrograph generator based on gauge records enables the generation of synthetic flood hydrographs for the dimensioning of hydraulic structures. Based on selected flow time series, flood waves can be describe...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,675 Views
18 Pages

FloodSim: Flood Simulation and Visualization Framework Using Position-Based Fluids

  • I. Alihan Hadimlioglu,
  • Scott A. King and
  • Michael J. Starek

Flood modeling and analysis has been a vital research area to reduce damages caused by flooding and to make urban environments resilient against such occurrences. This work focuses on building a framework to simulate and visualize flooding in 3D usin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,026 Views
21 Pages

30 April 2025

Identifying socio-spatial inequalities in flood resilience is crucial for effective disaster risk management. This study integrates flood susceptibility simulations and Weibo activity data to construct a flood susceptibility index and incorporates so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,149 Views
32 Pages

Helicopter Rescue for Flood Disaster: Scheduling, Simulation, and Evaluation

  • Yuanbo Xue,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Yongliang Tian,
  • Hu Liu and
  • Xiyu Wang

14 December 2022

Frequent severe floods have caused great losses to urban safety and the economy, which raises high requirements for the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency rescue. Due to the flood characteristics, flood rescue requires a more rapid responder a...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,040 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2023

The uneven distribution of meteorological stations in small and medium-sized watersheds in China and the lack of measured hydrological data have led to difficulty in flood simulation and low accuracy in flood forecasting. Traditional hydrological mod...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,295 Views
16 Pages

11 December 2023

Flood disasters are considered to be one of the ten natural disasters that threaten the survival of mankind. They occur frequently and have a serious impact on the national economy. For quicker response to the sudden flood, in this paper, the relevan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,276 Views
12 Pages

Flood Scenario Simulation, Based on the Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Model in the Puyang River Catchment

  • Hua Zhong,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Ting Ma,
  • Xinlong Qi,
  • Xuying Wang,
  • Hualing Shang,
  • Simin Qu and
  • Weihua Fang

27 November 2022

The topography of the Puyang River catchment is complex and includes hills and plains. The Zhuji basin in the middle reaches a densely populated area facing serious flooding issues, due to the upstream flooding and downstream backwater. To address th...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,862 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2022

Floods are one of the main natural disaster threats to the safety of people’s lives and property. Flood hazards intensify as the global risk of flooding increases. The control of flood disasters on the basin scale has always been an urgent prob...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,705 Views
23 Pages

Flash Flood Simulation for Hilly Reservoirs Considering Upstream Reservoirs—A Case Study of Moushan Reservoir

  • Huaqing Zhao,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Yuxuan Zhang,
  • Ranhang Zhao,
  • Zhen Qi and
  • Haodong Zhang

12 June 2024

With the advancement of society and the impact of various factors such as climate change, surface conditions, and human activities, there has been a significant increase in the frequency of extreme rainfall events, leading to substantial losses from...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,831 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2024

Watershed hydrological modeling methods are currently the predominant approach for flood forecasting. Digital elevation model (DEM) data, a critical input variable, significantly influence the accuracy of flood simulations, primarily due to their res...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,020 Views
16 Pages

Simulation of Flood-Control Reservoirs: Comparing Fully 2D and 0D–1D Models

  • Susanna Dazzi,
  • Riccardo Verbeni,
  • Paolo Mignosa and
  • Renato Vacondio

26 October 2024

Flood-control reservoirs are often used as a structural measure to mitigate fluvial floods, and numerical models are a fundamental tool for assessing their effectiveness. This work aims to analyze the suitability of fully 2D shallow-water models to s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,634 Views
18 Pages

Thematic Fragmentation and Convergence in Urban Flood Simulation Research: A 45-Year Bibliometric Mapping

  • Ahmad Gamal,
  • Mohammad Raditia Pradana,
  • Bambang Hari Wibisono,
  • Prananda Navitas and
  • Jagannath Aryal

Urban flooding presents a growing challenge amid rapid urbanization, climate variability, and fragmented governance. Although simulation and risk assessment tools have advanced considerably, their integration into urban planning remains limited. This...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,270 Views
25 Pages

Revisiting Flood Hazard Assessment Practices under a Hybrid Stochastic Simulation Framework

  • Andreas Efstratiadis,
  • Panagiotis Dimas,
  • George Pouliasis,
  • Ioannis Tsoukalas,
  • Panagiotis Kossieris,
  • Vasilis Bellos,
  • Georgia-Konstantina Sakki,
  • Christos Makropoulos and
  • Spyridon Michas

2 February 2022

We propose a novel probabilistic approach to flood hazard assessment, aiming to address the major shortcomings of everyday deterministic engineering practices in a computationally efficient manner. In this context, the principal sources of uncertaint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,110 Views
24 Pages

Sentinel-1 Spatiotemporal Simulation Using Convolutional LSTM for Flood Mapping

  • Noel Ivan Ulloa,
  • Sang-Ho Yun,
  • Shou-Hao Chiang and
  • Ryoichi Furuta

6 January 2022

The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has been widely applied for flooding mapping based on change detection approaches. However, errors in the mapping result are expected since not all land-cover changes are flood-induced, and those changes are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,262 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic visual simulation of flood risk is crucial for scientific and intelligent emergency management of flood disasters, in which data quality, availability, visualization, and interoperability are important. Here, a seamless integration of a spati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,798 Views
20 Pages

Risk Simulation of Urban Rainstorm Flood Disasters Considering Crowd Activities

  • Jing Huang,
  • Tiantian Pang,
  • Zhenzhen Liu,
  • Zhiqiang Wang and
  • Huimin Wang

8 August 2023

Social activities have a significant impact on the rainstorm flood disaster risk. It is crucial to explore the dynamic changes of urban rainstorm flood disaster risk caused by crowd activities. In this study, a risk simulation method of urban rainsto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,962 Views
20 Pages

Flood has become a major hazard globally, and in Bhutan, with its steep terrain and erratic rainfall, it has caused significant economic damage in recent years. Given these challenges, there is a lack of accurate flood prediction and management strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,436 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2023

With the acceleration of urbanization in a river basin, the changes in the underlying surface structure of the basin are more and more intense, which causes frequent floods. This article aims to analyze the applicability of the HEC-HMS model in flood...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,635 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2024

Due to the complexity of terrain and climate in the mountain–plain transition zone, it is difficult to simulate and forecast the flow discharge of river basins accurately. The poor regularity of the river thus leads to uncertain flood control s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,361 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2019

Interactive flood simulations models are computer models that are usable for practitioners during work sessions, allowing demand-driven flood simulations together with domain experts. It is assumed among developers of such models that these interacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,718 Views
17 Pages

Extreme rainstorms are difficult to predict and often result in catchment-scale rainfall flooding, leading to substantial economic losses globally. Enhancing the numerical computational efficiency of flood models is essential for improving flood fore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,271 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2020

It is of great challenge to accurately predict flash floods for small to medium catchments (SMC) in mountainous areas, for which parameter calibration strategies are crucial for model performance. This study investigates the influence of calibration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,347 Views
20 Pages

16 October 2019

The main objectives of the present work are to investigate the hydraulic characteristics of the dam discharge flow and its impact downstream. Building information modeling technology is adopted to generate the terrain entity and hydraulic structures....

  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
27 Pages

Floods are among the most catastrophic natural disasters, causing severe impact on human lives and ecosystems. The proposed methodology integrates Geographic Information Systems, 2D hydraulic modeling, and deep learning techniques to develop a comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,168 Views
22 Pages

15 September 2022

Monsoon-related extreme flood events are experienced regularly across India, bringing costly damage, disruption and death to local communities. This study provides a route towards estimating the likely magnitude of extreme floods (e.g., the 1-in-100-...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,302 Views
22 Pages

28 September 2023

The Xin’anjiang hydrological model (XHM) is the practical tool for runoff simulation and flood forecasting in most regions in China, but it still presents some challenges when applied to Northwest China, where the river runoff mostly comes from...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,022 Views
16 Pages

18 September 2023

Hourly scale hydrological modeling holds pivotal significance for flood-related research, as watershed floods often occur within a few hours of intense rainfall. Although the SWAT model’s hourly simulation has found application in a few watersh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,461 Views
24 Pages

Dynamic Assessment of the Flood Risk at Basin Scale under Simulation of Land-Use Scenarios and Spatialization Technology of Factor

  • Jun Liu,
  • Jiyan Wang,
  • Junnan Xiong,
  • Weiming Cheng,
  • Xingjie Cui,
  • Wen He,
  • Yufeng He,
  • Yu Duan,
  • Gang Yang and
  • Nan Wang

15 November 2021

Climate change, population increase, and urban expansion have increased the risk of flooding. Therefore, accurately identifying future changing patterns in the flood risk is essential. For this purpose, this study elaborated a new framework for a bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,138 Views
16 Pages

Adequacy of Near Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Products in Driving Flood Discharge Simulation in the Fuji River Basin, Japan

  • Li Zhou,
  • Mohamed Rasmy,
  • Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,
  • Toshio Koike,
  • Hemakanth Selvarajah and
  • Tianqi Ao

25 January 2021

Flood management is an important topic worldwide. Precipitation is the most crucial factor in reducing flood-related risks and damages. However, its adequate quality and sufficient quantity are not met in many parts of the world. Currently, near real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,187 Views
28 Pages

20 May 2020

One-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling approaches are useful for flood simulations; however, most studies often neglect intermediate discharges due to difficulties in obtaining the associated data. Herein, we produced the XAJ-H1DM model by coupling th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
23 Pages

5 February 2026

Flood simulation in small- and medium-sized catchments is hindered by data scarcity and strong hydroclimatic heterogeneity. Distributed models with pedotransfer functions offer new opportunities, yet their parameter sensitivity and regional applicabi...

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  • Open Access
1,223 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2025

(1) Background: Aiming at low-accuracy and unclear parameter differentiation of snowmelt ice melting, rainstorm and mixed flood simulation in Northwest Chinese arid inland river basins, this study aimed to improve complex flood simulation ability and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,549 Views
21 Pages

Rainfall Pattern Construction Method Based on DTW-HCA and Urban Flood Simulation: A Case Study of Nanchang City, China

  • Yuze Wu,
  • Ming Tang,
  • Zuhao Zhou,
  • Junying Chu,
  • Yanlin Zeng,
  • Mingjin Zhan and
  • Wenbin Xu

23 December 2023

Due to the different design standards of urban drainage and water conservancy facilities, numerous coordination and linkage issues arise when confronting extreme rainfall. In this paper, three clustering methods were used to cluster rainfall events,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,110 Views
21 Pages

The need for decision support after a flooding casualty requires the development of fast and accurate progressive flooding simulation procedures. Here, a new quasi-static technique is presented, proposing a differential algebraic formulation capable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,117 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2019

An accurate analysis of the entire flooding process is critical to assess the damaged stability when a ship encounters distressed accidents such as collision, stranding, or grounding. Among many factors affecting the flooding process and damaged stab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,510 Views
19 Pages

2 January 2023

The potential risk of flood or waterlogging in irrigation districts has increased due to global climate change and intensive human activities. This paper employed a waterlogging process simulation model for flat irrigation districts in the paddy fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,034 Views
20 Pages

6 September 2023

Gas flooding and foam flooding are potential technologies for tertiary oil recovery in fractured-vuggy reservoirs. The development and mechanism research of fractured-vuggy reservoirs is difficult due to the complex structures and the strong heteroge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,249 Views
16 Pages

2 May 2018

Computing speed is a significant issue of large-scale flood simulations for real-time response to disaster prevention and mitigation. Even today, most of the large-scale flood simulations are generally run on supercomputers due to the massive amounts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,976 Views
19 Pages

16 May 2018

For urban watersheds, the storm sewer network provides indispensable data for flood modeling but often needs to be simplified to balance the conflict between the large amount of data and current computing power. The sensitivity of a flood simulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
11,688 Views
25 Pages

Simulating Flash Floods at Hourly Time-Step Using the SWAT Model

  • Laurie Boithias,
  • Sabine Sauvage,
  • Anneli Lenica,
  • Hélène Roux,
  • Karim C. Abbaspour,
  • Kévin Larnier,
  • Denis Dartus and
  • José Miguel Sánchez-Pérez

28 November 2017

Flash floods are natural phenomena with environmental, social and economic impacts. To date, few numerical models are able to simulate hydrological processes at catchment scale at a reasonable time scale to describe flash events with accurate details...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,595 Views
20 Pages

Flood Simulations in Mid-Latitude Agricultural Land Using Regional Current and Future Extreme Weathers

  • Nobuaki Kimura,
  • Hirohide Kiri,
  • Sachie Kanada,
  • Iwao Kitagawa,
  • Ikuo Yoshinaga and
  • Hidenori Aiki

19 November 2019

Recent extreme weather events like the August 2016 flood disaster have significantly affected farmland in mid-latitude regions like the Tokachi River (TR) watershed, the most productive farmland in Japan. The August 2016 flood disaster was caused by...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,339 Views
15 Pages

25 January 2023

Extreme hydro-meteorological phenomena have become more frequent in recent years compared to the year 2000 in Europe, including Romania. Flooding occurs from heavy rainfalls favored by natural and anthropogenic factors such as the valley’s flat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,782 Views
23 Pages

19 April 2021

The particles, water and oil three-phase flow behaviors at the pore scale is significant to clarify the dynamic mechanism in the particle flooding process. In this work, a newly developed direct numerical simulation techniques, i.e., VOF-FDM-DEM meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,637 Views
26 Pages

9 December 2024

In recent years, fracturing-flooding technology has achieved a series of successful practices in the development of low-permeability oil reservoirs. However, research on the dynamic behavior of fracturing-flooding remains limited. In this paper, a du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,977 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Flood Intrusion Process under Malfunction of Flood Retaining Facilities in Complex Subway Stations

  • Zhiyu Lin,
  • Shengbin Hu,
  • Tianzhong Zhou,
  • Youxin Zhong,
  • Ye Zhu,
  • Lei Shi and
  • Hang Lin

In recent years, heavy rain and waterlogging accidents in subway stations have occurred many times around the world. With the comprehensive development trend of underground space, the accidents caused by flood flow intruding complex subway stations a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,545 Views
21 Pages

Urban Flood Detection Using TerraSAR-X and SAR Simulated Reflectivity Maps

  • Shadi Sadat Baghermanesh,
  • Shabnam Jabari and
  • Heather McGrath

5 December 2022

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is a vital tool for flood mapping due to its capability to acquire images day and night in almost any weather and to penetrate through cloud cover. In rural areas, SAR backscatter intensity can be used to detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,187 Views
22 Pages

A Web GIS Platform to Modeling, Simulate and Analyze Flood Events: The RiverCure Portal

  • Alberto Rodrigues da Silva,
  • Jacinto Estima,
  • Jorge Marques,
  • Ivo Gamito,
  • Alexandre Serra,
  • Leonardo Moura,
  • Ana Margarida Ricardo,
  • Luís Mendes and
  • Rui M. L. Ferreira

Flood events are becoming more severe, causing significant problems to human communities, including physical, psychological, and material damage. For both flood forecasting in emergency response situations and flood mapping, georeferencing and data c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,505 Views
19 Pages

1 October 2020

It is well acknowledged that due to the polymer component, the oil–water relative permeability curve in polymer flooding is different from the curve in waterflooding. As the viscoelastic properties and the trapping number are presented for modi...

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