Urban Flood Control through a Mathematical Cell Model

Abstract

This study models urban flood behavior by the flow cell scheme. The flow cell concept has origins in the Mekong River Delta Model (Zanobetti et al., 1970) and is historically used to simulate large rural floodplains. The flow cell concept was used to model the Pantanal Matogrossense, a large Brazilian marsh watershed of ecological importance (Mascarenhas and Miguez, 1993). That work is here adapted to model the diversity of drainage in the city of Joinville, Santa Catarina in southern Brazil.

Keywords:

• Urban drainage
• urban floods
• flood control
• mathematical modeling
• cell scheme