In the companion paper, Seidou et al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR11">2011</CitationRef>, submitted) have shown that when adequate meteorological data are available to calibrate rainfall-runoff models, using a non-stationary GEV model with the simulated flows can provide a better description of flood peaks distributions than directly using...</citationref>

The global financial and economic crisis is felt in almost all the companies that operate on the European financial and insurance markets. The European insurance and re-insurance industry would register a significant decrease of the investments and a redu

In this study, a multiphase three-dimensional numerical model using the volume of fluid method is applied to investigate tsunami-like bores propagating over dry and wet flume beds and their interaction with a structural model. Physical results from a set of laboratory experiments conducted at...

The increase of financial crisis in 2008 helped to bring the recession in developed countries and the reduction of acceleration in the economies of emerging countries. Moreover, the degree of vulner-ability in emerging countries has increased through their dependence of external financing....

On March 11, 2011, a large earthquake that occurred offshore the north-east coast of Japan generated a large tsunami which devastated extensive areas of the Tohoku coastline. Despite Japan being considered a country well prepared for these types of disasters, large casualties were recorded, with...

Coastal and bank erosion along the St. Lawrence River Waterway in Quebec, Canada, represents a hazard to local communities living along the river banks, as well as to the local fauna habitat. The purpose of this study is to assess the potential impact of the waves generated by long...

A 3-D large eddy simulation model that was first transformed to smoothed particle hydrodynamics (LES-SPH)-based model was employed to study breaking tsunami waves in this paper. LES-SPH is a gridless (or mesh-free), purely Lagrangian particle approach which is capable of tracking the free...

For over three decades, emergency planners have used numerical models to predict breaching in earthfill dams due to extreme events such as overtopping. However, current models neglect the role of the unsaturated zone present within the downstream face of an earthfill dam. This leads to an...