Author(s): Kwang Seok Yoon; Jong-Kyu Lee
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Keywords: Levee breach; Flood wave velocity; Inundation; Hydraulic experiment
Abstract: To minimize the flood damages by inundation, it is necessary to develop non-structural measures as well as structural measures. The non-structural measures include the establishment of evacuation plans, the provision of information to the public by distribution of hazard maps which are drawn by analyzing the flooded area in the past and by conducting the numerical and experimental simulation. This study was carried out to provide the fundamental data for establishing the evacuation system against the flood inundation due to levee breach. Hydraulic experiments were conducted basically to investigate the floodwater behavior in floodplain. The relation of levee breach with the flood wave velocity, the maximum water depth in floodplain and free surface profiles are described in this paper.
Year: 2005