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Experimental and Numerical Study of the Effect of Model Geometric Distortion on Laboratory Modeling of Urban Flooding

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WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
卷 57, 期 10, 页码 -

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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021WR029666

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experimental hydraulics; model scaling; urban flooding; distortion effect; numerical modeling

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  1. Fonds pour la formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et l'Agriculture (FRIA, Belgium)
  2. Fonds Speciaux de la Recherche (FSR) of the University of Liege
  3. French National Research Agency (ANR) [ANR-18-CE01-0020]
  4. Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS [R.8003.18]

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This study systematically assessed the influence of geometric distortion on upscaled flow depths and discharge partition in laboratory studies of urban flooding, finding that the distortion ratio affects these parameters, with the effects stabilizing asymptotically for ratios above 5. The research provides valuable insights for offsetting bias induced by geometric distortion in practical laboratory studies of urban flooding.
Laboratory studies of urban flooding often use geometrically distorted scale models due to the multi-scale nature of these specific flows. The possible bias induced by geometric distortion has never been thoroughly investigated with dedicated laboratory experiments. In this study, we combine experimental and computational modeling to systematically assess the influence of the distortion ratio, that is, the ratio of horizontal to vertical scale factors, on upscaled flow depths and discharge partition between streets. Three flow configurations were considered: a street junction, a street bifurcation, and a small synthetic urban district. When the distortion ratio is varied up to a value of about 5, the upscaled flow depths at the model inlets decrease monotonously and the flow discharge in the branch that conveys the largest portion of the flow is greatly enhanced. For equal flow depths at the model outlets and depending on the configuration, the distortion effect induces a variation of the upstream flow depth approximately from similar to 4% to similar to 17% and a change in outlet discharge partition up to 24 percentage points. For a distortion ratio above 5, both upscaled upstream flow depths and outlet discharge partition tend to stabilize asymptotically. Our study indicates the direction and magnitude of the bias induced by geometric distortion for a broad range of flow cases, which is valuable for offsetting these effects in practical laboratory studies of urban flooding.

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