Flood modelling and forecasting challenges in industry Workshop
Start Date
11.06.2020
End Date
11.06.2020
The ‘Flood modelling & forecasting challenges in industry’ workshop is part of the EPSRC-funded project SEAMLESS-WAVE and is supported by TWENTY65 and the IAHR. It will bring together practitioners and scholars in the field, aiming to identify and discuss timely issues in operational-scale flood modelling and forecasting.
The workshop will be to gain insights into felt industrial and practical needs, that require further addressing in academic research. The focus will be on the themes:
- improving operational-scale flood mapping and forecasting, and
- flood resilience metric production including human response components
The workshop will be facilitated by a series of invited talks by experts on subjects, which include hydraulic modelling and engineering, uncertainty quantification, flood-incident emergency response and management, and resilient engineering.
A direct outcome of the workshop will be an online document summarising the talks and capturing the ideas formed during a workshop’s breakout session. This document will then be used as a starting point to develop a multi-authored contribution for publication, while seeking the feedback from the workshop’s speakers.
The themes of the workshop are expected to interest researchers focused on flood model development, testing, application and validation for real-world applications, as well as those interested in flood resilience quantification at urban-scale.
We invite you to join us at this workshop if you are interested in broadening your views into those of end-users and practitioners of flood modelling tools and forecasting methods. Participants are expected to have friendly and constructive discussions with the speakers and with each other, by sharing their expertise, thoughts, comments, and insights from their field and/or expertise.
Location: The Diamond, The University of Sheffield
Fee & registration
£50 includes workshop attendance, lunch, refreshments and evening dinner at Cubana Restaurant. Please contact twenty65@sheffield.ac.uk if you are interested in attending.
Travel: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/mapsandtravel/index
Accommodation: Here is a short list of recommended hotels. You are also advised to check TripAdvisor
|
Time |
Title |
Speaker (45 mins) |
11 Jun |
Day 1: Operational flood mapping & forecasting |
|
|
9:30 |
Welcoming and workshop introduction |
Georges & Vanessa |
|
9:45 |
Eliminating grid alignment sensitivity in fixed grid solver & Comparison of turbulence models for 2D hydrodynamic modelling |
Bill Syme, BMT Group |
|
10:30 |
Expected title on: Calibration and parameterisation of flood models |
Henrik Madsen, DHI Group |
|
11:15 |
Coffee break |
|
|
11:30 |
Modelling challenges for strategic assessments |
Jon Wicks, JACOBS |
|
12:15 |
Awaiting title from: Innovyze on their aspects of flood modelling |
Julien Lhomme, Innovyze |
|
13:00 |
Lunch (on site) |
|
|
14:00 |
Convective scale data assimilation for flooding problems |
Onno Bokhove, University of Leeds |
|
14:45 |
Modelling river flood risk for the whole continental US |
Paul Bates, University of Bristol |
|
15:30 |
Breakout: what are the present/future challenges in flood modelling? |
Vanessa, Lindsay and Georges |
|
19:00 |
Event dinner: Tapas at Cubana |
|
12 Jun |
Day 2: Also spans talks on ‘Flood resilience metrics including people response dynamics’ |
|
|
9:00 |
Awaiting title from: the ‘Incident Management & Modelling’ section |
Environment Agency |
|
9:45 |
Awaiting title from: the ‘Flood Forecasting Center ’ |
Environment Agency |
|
10:30 |
Coffee break |
|
|
10:45 |
Awaiting title on: urban flood resilience metrics |
Lindsay Beevers, Heriot-Watt |
|
11:30 |
Awaiting title on: outcomes of the flood rise project |
Brett Sanders, California Irvine US |
|
12:15 |
Coffee break & lunch |
|
|
13:15 |
Awaiting title on: The Life safety model and flood risk to people |
Darren Lumbrosso, HR Wallingford |
|
14:00 |
Awaiting title on: psychosocial imp
| |
