Dam Break Modelling, Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Mitigation

In this thesis a range of modelling techniques is explored to deal effectively with flood risk management. In particular, attention is paid to floods caused by failure of hydraulic structures such as dams and dikes. The methods considered here are applied for simulating dam and dike failure events, flood water routing in downstream areas, and flood risk reduction, providing a unified framework for addressing a variety of flood related events. Numerical, statistical and constraint based methods are applied to the problem of breach modelling and flood water mitigation