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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1567-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1567-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Technical note
| 
18 Mar 2019
Technical note |
| 18 Mar 2019
| 18 Mar 2019
Technical note: Laboratory modelling of urban flooding: strengths and challenges of distorted scale models
Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE),
University of Liège (ULiège), 4000, Liège, Belgium
Sébastien Erpicum
Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE),
University of Liège (ULiège), 4000, Liège, Belgium
Martin Bruwier
Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE),
University of Liège (ULiège), 4000, Liège, Belgium
Emmanuel Mignot
LMFA, CNRS-Université de Lyon, INSA de Lyon, 69100, Lyon,
France
Pascal Finaud-Guyot
ICube laboratory (UMR 7357), Fluid mechanics team, ENGEES,
67084, Strasbourg, France
Pierre Archambeau
Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE),
University of Liège (ULiège), 4000, Liège, Belgium
Michel Pirotton
Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE),
University of Liège (ULiège), 4000, Liège, Belgium
Benjamin Dewals
Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE),
University of Liège (ULiège), 4000, Liège, Belgium
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Short summary
With a growing urban flood risk worldwide, flood risk management tools need to be validated against reference data. Field and remote-sensing observations provide valuable data on inundation extent and depth but virtually no information on flow velocity. Laboratory scale models have the potential to deliver complementary data, provided that the model scaling is performed carefully. In this paper, we reanalyse existing laboratory data to discuss challenges related to the scaling of urban floods.
With a growing urban flood risk worldwide, flood risk management tools need to be validated...
