Flash flood routing modeling for levee-breaks and overbank flows due to typhoon events in a complicated river system |
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| Authors: | Wen-Cheng Liu Chung-Yi Wu |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Civil and Disaster Prevention Engineering, National United University, Miao-Li, 36003, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | There has been a yearly increase in precipitation in Taiwan, consistent with trends seen across the world. In the summer and
fall, typhoons or tropical cyclones with torrential rainfall frequently occur as a result of Taiwan’s subtropical climate.
Flash floods may cause a levee-break and/or the overtopping of banks at narrow neck locations in a river system, which may
in turn produce inundation in urban areas. Therefore, a model that predicts flash floods is of vital importance for river
management. The present study is based on a flash flood routing model, which incorporates levee-break and overbank functions
to calculate the discharge hydrographs in the complicated Danshuei River system of northern Taiwan. The numerical model was
calibrated and verified against observed water stages using three typhoon events. The results indicate reasonable agreement
between the model simulations and the observed data. The model was then used to calculate the levee-break and overbank flow
hydrographs due to Typhoon Talim (2005) and Typhoon Nari (2001), respectively. The simulated results indicate that several
parameters significantly affect the flow hydrograph during a levee-break and should be carefully monitored when levee-break
events occur in the river system. The simulated water stages at several stations are consistent with observed data from Typhoon
Nari. The simulated overbank flow results quantitatively agree with reported information. The data also confirm that most
of the overbank events occurred at the upper reaches of the Keelung River, consistent with the low levee height protection. |
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