Floods are a major challenge to societies nationally and globally, and cause massive economic damages every year. With an expected increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme precipitation, these challenges will likely increase. In this thesis the aim is to simulate historic floods and use existing methods/values to estimate the flood cost based on different levels of detail.
Suggested tasks:
- International literature review of flood cost estimation
- Setup and calibration of hydraulic models (2D) for historic flood simulations
- Extraction of flood parameters (velocity, etc.) for flooded buildings and infrastructure
- Estimation of flood costs based on values obtained in the literature review
- One estimation with only water-covered area, one including velocity (and perhaps other parameters identified in the literature review)
- Comparison of estimated costs vs. observed costs for the historic floods with the different methods
