Leonardo Mancusi

Ricerca Sistema Energetico | RSE · Environment Research Unit

Mapping the delineation of areas that are flooded due to water control infrastructure failure is a critical issue. Practical difficulties often present challenges to the accurate and effective analysis of dam-break hazard areas. Such studies are expensive, lengthy, and require large volumes of incoming data and refined technical skills. The creatio...

The urban water system (UWS) is a highly energy-consuming sector and its efficiency is important for an integrated planning of smart cities towards decarbonisation and in order to ensure in general its sustainability over time due to the risk of having a lack of such resources because climate change and demographic growth may strongly affect the wa...

In hydrological modelling, the challenge is to identify an optimal strategy to exploit tools and available observations in order to enhance model reliability. The increasing availability of data promotes the use of new calibration techniques able to make use of additional information on river basins. In the present study, a lumped hydrological mode...

The increasing number of floods and the severity of their consequences, which is caused by phenomena, such as climate change and uncontrolled urbanization, create a growing need to develop operational procedures and tools for accurate and timely flood mapping and management. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), with its day, night, and cloud-penetrating...

The European ‘Floods Directive’ 2007/60/EC focuses on the development of flood risk maps and management plans on the basis of the most appropriate and advanced tools. This pushed a paradigm shift for moving to sustainable development through processes of stakeholder engagement to improve the efficiency and transparency of decision processes. In thi...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116309728 (valid unitl 02 August 2017) The EU Flood Directive 2007/60 requires the assessment and delineation of flood risk maps. The latter should provide the required knowledge for the development of flood risk management plans (FRMPs), that should deal with all features of risk management:...

Flood damage assessments supply crucial information to support authorities, local entities, and the stakeholders involved in decision-making regarding flood risk management in their compliance with the Floods Directive (2007/60/EC). Specifically, the estimation of economic flood damage provides objective results and rational procedure in so that re...

Sviluppo di un algoritmo genetico per la calibrazione di modelli idrologici fisicamente basati

Analisi delle disponibilità idriche future nello schema idrico Jonico - Sinni

We developed a tool: FloodRisk, a QGIS plugin that provides the assessment of flood consequences, in terms of loss of life and direct economic damages

An analysis of global statistics shows a substantial increase in flood damage over the past few decades. Moreover, it is expected that flood risk will continue to rise due to the combined effect of increasing numbers of people and economic assets in risk-prone areas and the effects of climate change. In order to mitigate the impact of natural hazar...

Efficient decision-making regarding flood risk reduction has become a priority for authorities and stakeholders in many European countries. Risk analysis methods and techniques are a useful tool for evaluating costs and benefits of possible interventions. Within this context, a methodology to estimate flood consequences was developed in this paper...

Risk analysis has become a priority for authorities and stakeholders in many European countries, with the aim of reducing flooding risk by considering the priority and benefits of possible interventions. Within this context, a flood risk analysis model was developed in this study that is based on GIS, and integrated with a model that assesses the d...

Despite human is an increasingly significant component of the hydrologic cycle in many river basins, most hydrologic models are still developed to accurately reproduce the natural processes and ignore the effect of human activities on the watershed response. This results in non-stationary model forecast errors and poor predicting performance every...

Abstract— A two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic model for river flood inundation prediction is presented. This model named FLORA-2D (FLOod and Roughness Analysis) solves the shallow-water equations at each node of a regular mesh covering the channel and floodplain. Its special feature is the ability to consider the flow resistance due to vegetation as a...

Abstract— A two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic model for river flood inundation prediction is presented. This model named FLORA-2D (FLOod and Roughness Analysis) solves the shallow-water equations at each node of a regular mesh covering the channel and floodplain. Its special feature is the ability to consider the flow resistance due to vegetation as a...

This paper details the technical contribution to the theme of flood risk analysis as consequence of a dam failure. According to the numerical problem proposed for the workshop, the analysis consists of the evaluation of the dam break and its consequences. The simulation includes two scenarios of dam breach: the scenario 1 that represents the case o...

Nel presente lavoro è descritto un modello idrologico a parametri concentrati ideato per migliorare i sistemi di previsione per la produzione idroelettrica. Particolare enfasi è data alla struttura del modello e alla metodologia di calibrazione adottata. In particolare, viene presentato un approccio mirato a scomporre le fasi di calibrazione in fun...