Influence of urban forms on long-duration urban flooding: laboratory experiments and computational analysis

Urban flooding; Urban forms; Laboratory model; Numerical modelling; Flood risk; Flood risk management; Crues; Inondations urbaines; Gestion du risque d'inondation

Abstract :

[en] Water-sensitive urban design is an integral part of flood risk management. Based on computational modelling, we investigated the influence of various urban forms on flooding severity at the level of an urban block and for the case of long-duration urban flooding. The upstream flow depths, downstream discharge partition and flow exchange through the urban forms were examined. The results indicate that one urban characteristic has an overwhelming influence on the flow variables: the conveyance porosity in the main flow direction is by far more influential than the conveyance porosity in the normal direction or the number of streets. Such anisotropic effect was not pointed in recent similar studies, and it hints at practical guidelines for sustainable urban planning in practice. Moreover, the computational model was verified against laboratory observations, which constitute a novel valuable dataset for the validation of other urban flooding models.

Research Center/Unit :

UEE - Urban and Environmental Engineering - ULiège

Disciplines :

Civil engineering

Author, co-author :

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

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

Mignot, Emmanuel; INSA Lyon, France > LMFA

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

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

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

Language :

English

Title :

Influence of urban forms on long-duration urban flooding: laboratory experiments and computational analysis

Publication date :

2021

Journal title :

Journal of Hydrology

ISSN :

0022-1694

eISSN :

1879-2707

Publisher :

Elsevier, Netherlands

Volume :

603

Pages :

127034

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127034

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique

Available on ORBi :

since 02 October 2021

Statistics

Number of views

111 (10 by ULiège)

Number of downloads

99 (5 by ULiège)

More statistics

Scopus citations^®

Scopus citations^®
without self-citations

OpenCitations

OpenAlex citations

Bibliography

Arrault, A., Finaud-Guyot, P., Archambeau, P., Bruwier, M., Erpicum, S., Pirotton, M., Dewals, B., Hydrodynamics of long-duration urban floods: experiments and numerical modelling. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 16 (2016), 1413–1429.
Beg, M.N.A., Rubinato, M., Carvalho, R.F., Shucksmith, J.D., CFD Modelling of the Transport of Soluble Pollutants from Sewer Networks to Surface Flows during Urban Flood Events. Water, 12, 2020.
Bruwier, M., Maravat, C., Mustafa, A., Teller, J., Pirotton, M., Erpicum, S., Archambeau, P., Dewals, B., Influence of urban forms on surface flow in urban pluvial flooding. Journal of Hydrology, 582, 2020, 124493.
Bruwier, M., Mustafa, A., Aliaga, D.G., Archambeau, P., Erpicum, S., Nishida, G., Zhang, X., Pirotton, M., Teller, J., Dewals, B., Influence of urban pattern on inundation flow in floodplains of lowland rivers. Science of the Total Environment 622–623 (2018), 446–458.
Cea, L., Garrido, M., Puertas, J., Experimental validation of two-dimensional depth-averaged models for forecasting rainfall-runoff from precipitation data in urban areas. Journal of Hydrology 382 (2010), 88–102.
Chen, S., Garambois, P.-A., Finaud-Guyot, P., Dellinger, G., Mosé, R., Terfous, A., Ghenaim, A., Variance based sensitivity analysis of 1D and 2D hydraulic models: An experimental urban flood case. Environmental Modelling & Software 109 (2018), 167–181.
Chen, Y., Zhou, H., Zhang, H., Du, G., Zhou, J., Urban flood risk warning under rapid urbanization. Environmental Research 139 (2015), 3–10.
Dong, B., Xia, J., Zhou, M., Deng, S., Ahmadian, R., Falconer, R.A., Experimental and numerical model studies on flash flood inundation processes over a typical urban street. Advances in Water Resources, 147, 2021, 103824.
Dottori, F., Di Baldassarre, G., Todini, E., Detailed data is welcome, but with a pinch of salt: Accuracy, precision, and uncertainty in flood inundation modeling. Water Resources Research 49 (2013), 6079–6085.
Dottori, F., Figueiredo, R., Martina, M.L.V., Molinari, D., Scorzini, A.R., INSYDE: A synthetic, probabilistic flood damage model based on explicit cost analysis. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 16 (2016), 2577–2591.
El Kadi Abderrezzak, K., Lewicki, L., Paquier, A., Rivière, N., Travin, G., Division of critical flow at three-branch open-channel intersection. Journal of Hydraulic Research 49 (2011), 231–238.
El Kadi Abderrezzak, K., Paquier, A., Numerical and Experimental Study of Dividing Open-Channel Flows. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 135 (2009), 1111–1112.
El Kadi Abderrezzak, K., Paquier, A., Mignot, E., Modelling flash flood propagation in urban areas using a two-dimensional numerical model. Natural Hazards 50 (2009), 433–460.
Erpicum, S., Meile, T., Dewals, B.J., Pirotton, M., Schleiss, A.J., 2D numerical flow modeling in a macro-rough channel. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 61 (2009), 1227–1246.
Ferrari, A., Viero, D.P., Floodwater pathways in urban areas: A method to compute porosity fields for anisotropic subgrid models in differential form. Journal of Hydrology, 589, 2020, 125193.
Ferrari, A., Viero, D.P., Vacondio, R., Defina, A., Mignosa, P., Flood inundation modeling in urbanized areas: A mesh-independent porosity approach with anisotropic friction. Advances in Water Resources 125 (2019), 98–113.
Goseberg, N., Reduction of maximum tsunami run-up due to the interaction with beachfront development - application of single sinusoidal waves. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13 (2013), 2991–3010.
Guillen Ludena, S., Lopez, D., Mignot, E., Rivière, N., 2017. EXTREME FLOOD FLOW IN AN INCREASINGLY URBANIZED FLOODPLAIN: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH.
Guillén, N.F., Patalano, A., Garcia, C.M., Bertoni, J.C., Use of LSPIV in assessing urban flash flood vulnerability. Natural Hazards 87 (2017), 383–394.
Guo, K., Guan, M., Yu, D., Urban surface water flood modelling – a comprehensive review of current models and future challenges. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 2020 (2020), 1–27.
Herbich, J.B., Shulits, S., Large-scale roughness in open-channel flow, in. Proceedings Amercian Society Civil Engineers., 1964.
Huang, C.-J., Hsu, M.-H., Teng, W.-H., Wang, Y.-H., The Impact of Building Coverage in the Metropolitan Area on the Flow Calculation. Water 6 (2014), 2449–2466.
Isidoro, J.M.G.P., de Lima, J.L.M.P., Leandro, J., The study of rooftop connectivity on the rainfall-runoff process by means of a rainfall simulator and a physical model. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues 57 (2013), 177–191.
Kreibich, H., Thaler, T., Glade, T., Molinari, D., Preface: Damage of natural hazards: assessment and mitigation. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19 (2019), 551–554.
La Loggia, G., Puleo, V., Freni, G., 2020. Floodability: A New Paradigm for Designing Urban Drainage and Achieving Sustainable Urban Growth. Water Resources Management 34.
Le Coz, J., Jodeau, M., Hauet, A., Marchand, B., Le Boursicaud, R., Image-based velocity and discharge measurements in field and laboratory river engineering studies using the free FUDAA-LSPIV software. InProceedings International Conference Fluvial Hydraulics(RiverFlow), 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1961–1967.
Leandro, J., Schumann, A., Pfister, A., A step towards considering the spatial heterogeneity of urban key features in urban hydrology flood modelling. Journal of Hydrology 535 (2016), 356–365.
Legout, C., Darboux, F., Nédélec, Y., Hauet, A., Esteves, M., Renaux, B., Denis, H., Cordier, S., High spatial resolution mapping of surface velocities and depths for shallow overland flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37 (2012), 984–993.
Li, C.W., Zeng, C., Flow division at a channel crossing with subcritical or supercritical flow. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 62 (2010), 56–73.
Li, X., Erpicum, S., Bruwier, M., Mignot, E., Finaud-Guyot, P., Archambeau, P., Pirotton, M., Dewals, B., Technical note: Laboratory modelling of urban flooding: strengths and challenges of distorted scale models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 23 (2019), 1567–1580.
Li, X., Erpicum, S., Mignot, E., Archambeau, P., Rivière, N., Pirotton, M., Dewals, B., Numerical Insights Into the Effects of Model Geometric Distortion in Laboratory Experiments of Urban Flooding. Water Resources Research, 56, 2020, e2019WR026774.
Li, X., Kitsikoudis, V., Mignot, E., Archambeau, P., Pirotton, M., Dewals, B., Erpicum, S., Experimental and numerical study of the effect of model geometric distortion on laboratory modeling of urban flooding. Water Resources Research, 57, 2021, e2021WR029666.
Lin, J., He, X., Lu, S., Liu, D., He, P., Investigating the influence of three-dimensional building configuration on urban pluvial flooding using random forest algorithm. Environmental Research, 2020, 110438.
Löwe, R., Urich, C., Domingo, N.S., Mark, O., Deletic, A., Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., Assessment of urban pluvial flood risk and efficiency of adaptation options through simulations - A new generation of urban planning tools. Journal of Hydrology 550 (2017), 355–367.
Luo, H., Fytanidis, D.K., Schmidt, A.R., Garcia, M.H., Comparative 1D and 3D numerical investigation of open-channel junction flows and energy losses. Advances in Water Resources 117 (2018), 120–139.
Martins, R., Rubinato, M., Kesserwani, G., Leandro, J., Djordjevic, S., Shucksmith, J.D., On the Characteristics of Velocities Fields in the Vicinity of Manhole Inlet Grates During Flood Events. Water Resources Research 54 (2018), 6408–6422.
Mejia-Morales, M.A., Mignot, E., Paquier, A., Sigaud, D., Proust, S., Impact of the porosity of an urban block on the flood risk assessment: A laboratory experiment. Journal of Hydrology, 602, 2021, 126715.
Mignot, E., Camusson, L., Riviere, N., Measuring the flow intrusion towards building areas during urban floods: Impact of the obstacles located in the streets and on the facade. Journal of Hydrology, 583, 2020, 124607.
Mignot, E., Li, X., Dewals, B., Experimental modelling of urban flooding: A review. Journal of Hydrology 568 (2019), 334–342.
Mignot, E., Zeng, C., Dominguez, G., Li, C.-W., Rivière, N., Bazin, P.-H., Impact of topographic obstacles on the discharge distribution in open-channel bifurcations. Journal of Hydrology 494 (2013), 10–19.
Molinari, D., Scorzini, A.R., Arrighi, C., Carisi, F., Castelli, F., Domeneghetti, A., Gallazzi, A., Galliani, M., Grelot, F., Kellermann, P., Kreibich, H., Mohor, G.S., Mosimann, M., Natho, S., Richert, C., Schroeter, K., Thieken, A.H., Zischg, A.P., Ballio, F., Are flood damage models converging to “reality”? Lessons learnt from a blind test. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 20 (2020), 2997–3017.
Muis, S., Güneralp, B., Jongman, B., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Ward, P.J., Flood risk and adaptation strategies under climate change and urban expansion: A probabilistic analysis using global data. Science of The Total Environment 538 (2015), 445–457.
Mustafa, A., Bruwier, M., Archambeau, P., Erpicum, S., Pirotton, M., Dewals, B., Teller, J., Effects of spatial planning on future flood risks in urban environments. Journal of Environmental Management 225 (2018), 193–204.
Mustafa, A., Zhang, X.W., Aliaga, D.G., Bruwier, M., Nishida, G., Dewals, B., Erpicum, S., Archambeau, P., Pirotton, M., Teller, J., Procedural generation of flood-sensitive urban layouts. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 47 (2020), 889–911.
Muste, M., Fujita, I., Hauet, A., Large-scale particle image velocimetry for measurements in riverine environments. Water Resources Research, 44, 2008.
Muste, M., Hauet, A., Fujita, I., Legout, C., Ho, H.-C., Capabilities of Large-scale Particle Image Velocimetry to characterize shallow free-surface flows. Advances in Water Resources 70 (2014), 160–171.
Naves, J., Anta, J., Puertas, J., Regueiro-Picallo, M., SuÃ¡rez, J., Using a 2D shallow water model to assess Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) and Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques in a street-scale urban drainage physical model. Journal of Hydrology 575 (2019), 54–65.
Nkwunonwo, U.C., Whitworth, M., Baily, B., A review of the current status of flood modelling for urban flood risk management in the developing countries. Scientific African, 7, 2020, e00269.
Paquier, A., Bazin, P.H., EI Kadi Abderrezzak, K., Sensitivity of 2D hydrodynamic modelling of urban floods to the forcing inputs: lessons from two field cases. Urban Water Journal 17 (2020), 457–466.
Peltier, Y., Erpicum, S., Archambeau, P., Pirotton, M., Dewals, B., Experimental investigation of meandering jets in shallow reservoir. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 14, 2014.
Qin, Y., Urban Flooding Mitigation Techniques: A Systematic Review and Future Studies. Water, 12, 2020, 3579.
Rosenberger, L., Leandro, J., Pauleit, S., Erlwein, S., Sustainable stormwater management under the impact of climate change and urban densification. Journal of Hydrology, 596, 2021, 126137.
Rosenzweig, B.R., Herreros Cantis, P., Kim, Y., Cohn, A., Grove, K., Brock, J., Yesuf, J., Mistry, P., Welty, C., McPhearson, T., Sauer, J., Chang, H., The value of urban flood modeling. Earth's Future, 9, 2021, e2020EF001739.
Rubinato, M., Lee, S., Martins, R., Shucksmith, J.D., Surface to sewer flow exchange through circular inlets during urban flood conditions. Journal of Hydroinformatics 20 (2018), 564–576.
Soares-Frazão, S., Zech, Y., Dam-break flow through an idealised city. Journal of Hydraulic Research 46 (2008), 648–658.
Teng, J., Jakeman, A.J., Vaze, J., Croke, B.F.W., Dutta, D., Kim, S., Flood inundation modelling: A review of methods, recent advances and uncertainty analysis. Environmental Modelling & Software 90 (2017), 201–216.
Tesema, D., Abebe, B., A review of flood modeling methods for urban pluvial flood application. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2020.
Testa, G., Zuccala, D., Alcrudo, F., Mulet, J., Soares-Frazão, S., Flash flood flow experiment in a simplified urban district. Journal of Hydraulic Research 45 (2007), 37–44.
Tomiczek, T., Prasetyo, A., Mori, N., Yasuda, T., Kennedy, A., Physical modelling of tsunami onshore propagation, peak pressures, and shielding effects in an urban building array. Coastal Engineering 117 (2016), 97–112.
Varra, G., Pepe, V., Cimorelli, L., Della Morte, R., Cozzolino, L., 2019. On integral and differential porosity models for urban flooding simulation. Advances in Water Resources 136.
Velickovic, M., Zech, Y., Soares-Frazão, S., Steady-flow experiments in urban areas and anisotropic porosity model. Journal of Hydraulic Research 55 (2017), 85–100.
Yin, D., Chen, Y., Jia, H., Wang, Q., Chen, Z., Xu, C., Li, Q., Wang, W., Yang, Y., Fu, G., Chen, A.S., Sponge city practice in China: A review of construction, assessment, operational and maintenance. Journal of Cleaner Production, 280, 2021, 124963.
Yin, J., Ye, M., Yin, Z., Xu, S., A review of advances in urban flood risk analysis over China. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 29 (2015), 1063–1070.
Zhi, G., Liao, Z., Tian, W., Wu, J., Urban flood risk assessment and analysis with a 3D visualization method coupling the PP-PSO algorithm and building data. Journal of Environmental Management, 268, 2020, 110521.
Zhu, X., Lipeme Kouyi, G., An Analysis of LSPIV-Based Surface Velocity Measurement Techniques for Stormwater Detention Basin Management. Water Resources Research 55 (2019), 888–903.