Impact of Different Design Rainfall Pattern Peak Factors on Urban Flooding

Abstract

In order to investigate the influence of different design rainfall peaks on urban flooding characteristics based on the MIKE hydrodynamic model, the inundation process scenarios were extrapolated for different recurrence periods and three single- and double-peak rainfall types in Zhoukou city as an example, and the equivalent values of total inundation and inundation area were compared and analysed. The results show that bimodal rainfall has a higher risk of inundation than unimodal rainfall for the same rainfall ephemeris and return period. For unimodal rainfall, when the return period is less than 20 years, the more advanced the rainfall peak, the more severe the design rainfall inundation. When the return period is greater than 20 years, the further back the rainfall peak, the more severe the inundation of the design rainfall. The difference between the risk of inundation due to single- and double-peaked rainfall decreases as the return period increases.

Keywords

• urban flooding
• MIKE model
• single- and double-peaked rain pattern