Experiments on Urban Flooding Caused by a Levee Breach

Breached levees often cause extensive flood damage to urban and residential areas; there has been considerable interest in the numerical modeling of flooding of urban areas in recent years. However, comprehensive data that describe the complex flow field in residential areas are not available for validating the numerical models or for determining the extent of such damage. To fill this gap, results are presented of experiments on a scale model used as a test setup that examined the flow field in an urban area attributable to flooding caused by a levee breach.