Hydrodynamic Simulation of Flood Due to Hypothetical Momentary Mosul Dam Failure

Abstract

f Engineering Sciences Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences Hydrodynamic Simulation of Flood Due to Hypothetical Momentary Mosul Dam Failure A B S T R A C T Flood wave simulation due to hypothetical momentary failure of Mosul Dam was carried out by applying the (IBER) hydrodynamic model for the dam storage scenarios (300, 310, 320, 330 and 335) meter above sea level after testing the validity and calibration the model to identify areas that will be inundated between dam site and south Mosul City. Flood waves simulation maps representing borders, water levels and depths were drawn. The inundated areas for between dam site and north Mosul city were determined for the mentioned storage scenarios are (69.14, 114.76, 158.2, 202.5 and 245.6) km2 respectively. The minimum and maximum percentage of the inundated area within Mosul City was also calculated to be (25.6-54.6) % respectively out of the total city area. The maximum flood wave discharges at the failed dam breach and at Mosul City due to the worst dam storage scenario (335) m a.s.l are (781132 and 337138) m3 /s respectively. While the elapsed travel time for maximum discharge reaching Mosul City is (4.18) hours from the initiation of dam failure. The maximum flood depth within Mosul City is (36.7) m occurred after (4.68) hours. Finally, the routing percentage occurred in the maximum flooding discharge (attenuation) between dam site and Mosul City for storage scenario (335) meters is 56.8% while the lag time was (4.03) hours.