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Hydraulic modelling

  • Stuart Lane(author)
Chapter of: The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research(pp. 487–492)
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Title Hydraulic modelling
ContributorStuart Lane(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0418.30
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0418/chapters/10.11647/obp.0418.30
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightStuart N. Lane;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2025-02-25
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Hydraulic modelling draws from the basic physical equations that describe the conservation of mass and momentum to describe how water moves across rivers and floodplains. It is a routine component of flood and water resource management now delivered through standard pieces of software. There are key steps in a hydraulic modelling project that need to be followed to guarantee reliable results. Hydraulic modelling to predict flood inundation and sediment transport, as well as links between the two; to predict the availability of river habitat under different flow magnitudes; and to understand how pollution is dispersed in rivers and streams. Commonly overlooked, hydraulic modelling involves ethical issues as it is a form of surveillance science whose results can have major implications for the users of rivers and floodplains.

Page rangepp. 487–492
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Stuart Lane

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Professor of Geomorphology at University of Lausanne
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6077-6076

Stuart N. Lane is Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Lausanne. He is a geographer and civil engineer by training who has held posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Durham in the U.K. and Lausanne in Switzerland. His work has sought to bring a geographical perspective to contemporary environmental concerns such as flooding and pollution. The primary focus of his current work is the environments created by disappearing glaciers in terms of ice, water, sediment and ecosystems and the consequences of these changes for environmental management. An important thread through his most recent research criticizes the current alignment of geography as a discipline with the ever more neo-liberal academy; and then argues for the rediscovery of a more scientific geographical science better able to cope with the crises the world is experiencing today.

References
  1. This edited volume addresses many of the issues associated with hydraulic modelling in more detail:
  2. Braun, A., Chapter 39, this volume. ‘(Critical) Satellite remote sensing’.
  3. Bates, P.D., S.N. Lane, and R.I. Ferguson. 2005. Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics (Wiley-Blackwell). https://doi.org/10.1002/0470015195.ch1
  4. Ingham, D.B. and L. Ma. 2005. ‘Fundamental equations for CFD in river flow simulations’, in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics, ed. by P.D. Bates, S.N. Lane, and R.I. Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 19–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470015195.ch1
  5. Kasvi, E., Chapter 45, this volume. ‘Uncrewed airborne vehicle surveys (drones)’.
  6. Krueger, T., Chapter 26, this volume. ‘Environmental modelling’.
  7. Landstrom, C., S.J. Whatmore, and S.N. Lane. 2011. ‘Virtual engineering: computer simulation modelling for UK flood risk management’, Science Studies, 24, pp. 3–22. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.55261
  8. Lane, S.N., R.J. Hardy, R.I. Ferguson, and D.R. Parsons. 2005. ‘A framework for model verification and validation of CFD schemes in natural open channel flows’, in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics, ed. by P.D. Bates, S.N. Lane, and R.I. Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 429–60. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470015195.ch1
  9. Lane, S.N. 2012. ‘Making mathematical models perform in geographical space(s)’, in Handbook of Geographical Knowledge, ed. by J. Agnew and D. Livingstone (Sage Publications). https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446201091
  10. Lane, S.N. 2014. ‘Acting, predicting and intervening in a socio-hydrological world’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, pp. 927–52. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-927-2014
  11. Leclerc, M. 2005. ‘Ecohydraulics: a new interdisciplinary frontier for CFD’, in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics, ed. by P.D. Bates, Lane, S.N. and R.I. Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 429–60. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470015195.ch1
  12. Legleiter, C. and P. Kinzel. 2024. ‘A framework to facilitate development and testing of image-based river velocimetry algorithms’, in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49, 1361-1382. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5772
  13. Melsen, L., Chapter 31, this volume. ‘Hydrological modelling’.
  14. Porter, J. and D. Demeritt. 2012. ‘Flood-risk management, mapping, and planning: the institutional politics of decision support in England’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 44, pp. 2359–2378. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44660
  15. Wright, N.G. 2005. ‘Introduction to numerical methods for fluid flow’, in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics, ed. by P.D. Bates, S.N. Lane, and R.I. Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 147–68. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470015195.ch1

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