TY - GEN
T1 - Numerical simulations of a dam overflowing. Case study
T2 - 6th International Conference on High Performance Computer Applications, ISUM 2015
AU - Areu-Rangel, Omar S.
AU - Tolentino, Dante
AU - Mendoza-Sanchez, Itza
AU - Alvarado-Rodríguez, Carlos E.
AU - Klapp, Jaime
AU - Bonasia, Rosanna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Dam safety is an issue that affects directly or indirectly all society sectors. Up to now, Mexico does not have a proper federal or state legislation to evaluate dam safety, thus it is difficult to assign liability when total or partial dam failure occurs or to prevent failure by programming cost-effective dam supervision. Dam safety risk analysis by means of numerical simulations has the objective of evaluating the occurrence probability of a phenomenon, or group of phenomena, that affects dam safety. This work is focused on obtaining the overflow probability of the dam “La Esperanza” located in Hidalgo, Mexico. With this purpose, first, a statistical hydrologic analysis using daily maximum rains was conducted to obtain dam inflow as a function of rainfall duration and return periods. Second, different inflow scenarios were simulated to obtain their associated maximum hydraulic head values using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method. Finally, simulation results of maximum hydraulic head reached by water particles were used to calculate the overflow probability. We have obtained a high overflow probability for the “La Esperanza” dam warranting more studies, for this and other dams with similar conditions, given that the hazard potential to populated downstream areas is high.
AB - Dam safety is an issue that affects directly or indirectly all society sectors. Up to now, Mexico does not have a proper federal or state legislation to evaluate dam safety, thus it is difficult to assign liability when total or partial dam failure occurs or to prevent failure by programming cost-effective dam supervision. Dam safety risk analysis by means of numerical simulations has the objective of evaluating the occurrence probability of a phenomenon, or group of phenomena, that affects dam safety. This work is focused on obtaining the overflow probability of the dam “La Esperanza” located in Hidalgo, Mexico. With this purpose, first, a statistical hydrologic analysis using daily maximum rains was conducted to obtain dam inflow as a function of rainfall duration and return periods. Second, different inflow scenarios were simulated to obtain their associated maximum hydraulic head values using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method. Finally, simulation results of maximum hydraulic head reached by water particles were used to calculate the overflow probability. We have obtained a high overflow probability for the “La Esperanza” dam warranting more studies, for this and other dams with similar conditions, given that the hazard potential to populated downstream areas is high.
KW - Collapse
KW - Hydrodynamics
KW - Simulations
KW - Turbulence
KW - Winds
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84964068584&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-32243-8_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-32243-8_20
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
SN - 9783319322421
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 285
EP - 295
BT - High Performance Computer Applications - 6th International Conference, ISUM 2015, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Gitler, Isidoro
A2 - Klapp, Jaime
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 9 March 2015 through 13 March 2015
ER -