Print Email Facebook Twitter Safety against flooding: Activity Report 2008-2009 Title Safety against flooding: Activity Report 2008-2009 Author Mosselman, E. Luxemburg, W. Solomatine, D. Zwanenburg, C. Vrouwenvelder, T. Date 2009-06-01 Abstract This document reports the progress of Delft Cluster project CT04.30 "Safety against flooding" till June 2009. Fundamental knowledge from the project has resulted in a large number of scientific publications, PhD theses and MSc theses. Work package A 1 in particular has resulted in high-profile scientific publications, immediately awarded with high scores on the citation index. Furthermore, the project has provided education and training as scientists and practising engineers to a large group of PhD and MSc students. Research knowledge from the project has been implemented in models, such as Delft3D, and has enhanced the expertise of staff of Delft Cluster institutes. For instance, Jos Dijkman has been appointed, as the only foreigner, in an American review commission under the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council, charged with the review of all post-Katrina studies by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce. Applied knowledge from the project has been used and disseminated in various ways. Optical glass fibre cables from work package A 1 provided the spinoff of a method to monitor groundwater upwelling at the toe of inner dike slopes. Consultancies (DHV, HKV) now routinely apply morphological models of work package A2 to P KB Room for the River measures. Work package A3 has established the probability of occurrence of super storm surges with greater accuracy by reconstructing storm-surge levels from the last 10,000 years using novel deposit dating methods. Findings from work package B are to be incorporated in guidelines for flood defence design and evaluation, thus affecting the evaluations for the "Hydraulische Randvoorwaarden". The system behaviour identified and analyzed in work package C turns out to be so important for the overall safety of dike rings, that it will inevitably lead to the need of adopting a new safety philosophy on a short term. Knowledge from work package A 1 has been implemented in the hydrology curriculum of Delft University of Technology. Knowledge from work package A2 has been included in the PAO course on Room for the River. Subject safety against floodingfloodsdelft3dmorphologicalInteragency Performance Evaluation TaskforceKatrinasuper storm surgesnovel deposit dating methodsflood defencehydraulische randvoorwaardenhydrologyCT04.30veiligheid tegen overstromingenCT04.30.00Delft Cluster To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2b7c0be4-f0a2-450a-a293-4120fff50f4c Publisher Delft Cluster Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2009 Mosselman, E.; Luxemburg, W.; Solomatine, D.; Zwanenburg, C.; Vrouwenvelder, T. Files PDF DC_SafetyFlooding_Activit ... 8-2009.pdf 1.39 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2b7c0be4-f0a2-450a-a293-4120fff50f4c/datastream/OBJ/view