Reference

• U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (1960). "Floods resulting from suddenly breached dams: Conditions of minimum resistance." Paper: 2-237, report 1.
• U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (1961). "Floods resulting from suddenly breached dams: Conditions of maximum resistance." Paper: 2-374, report 2.

Domain

• rectangular flume with sloping bed elevation
• flume length = 121.9 m
• flume width = 1.2 m
• bed slope = 0.0015
• dam location at 61 m

Initial Conditions

• pooled water upstream of dam (left) with 0.3048 m at x = 61 m (dam face)
• no water downstream of the dam
• Friction defined by Manning's n = 0.009

Boundary Conditions

• no flow boundaries
• dam removed at t = 0 s

Run Files

The mesh (*.3dm), boundary condition (*.bc), and hotstart (*.hot) file can be downloaded from https://github.com/erdc/AdH-V-V-input-files.

• ERDC-dambreak.3dm
• ERDC-dambreak.bc
• ERDC-dambreak.hot

Results

• Comparison to flume experiment at the locations in the previous image
• Depth comparison to measured data over time