Second International Conference on River Flood Hydraulics Book

	List of Contributors
	Preface
	Practical experience in dealing with major flood incidents in South Africa	3
	Evaluating design characteristics for floods in Bangladesh	15
	Prediction of floods from a mountain river with glacierized and snow covered areas	27
	Properties of widespread, severe floods	37
	Optimising a conceptual catchment model in real time	49
	Flood forecasting for Beijiang River (PR China)	59
	An adaptive flood warning scheme for the river Nith at Dumfries	65
	Towards scenario-based real-time forecasting for flood-affected basins using a multimodel integrated system	77
	North West Regional Study of Bangladesh - experience of model calibration	95
	Application of computational models in defining flood/depth phases and cropping patterns on floodplains	107
	An application of 2-D mathematical modelling on the Brahmaputra River	117
	River bed aggradation through recurrent measures	131
	A coupled 2D model for interacting surface water and groundwater flows	145
	Coupling of 2D and 1D models and integration into geographic information systems (GIS)	155
	Bangladesh flood management model	167
	Use of a GIS in the modelling of flows on floodplains	177
	Policy analysis of river-dike improvement in the Netherlands	193
	Optimizing of the development of the standard of flood protection within flood plain basins	201
	A review of the hydraulic and environmental performance of river schemes in Northern Ireland	217
	Extended protection concepts of mountain streams - experiences on extreme floods	231
	Modelling the Lower River Severn	237
	Flood control in Hungary and piping failures at river levees	249
	The Yorkshire Humber estuary tidal defence strategy	265
	River flood protection in the Netherlands	275
	Mathematical model for reservoir sedimentation	289
	Sand waves in alluvial channels and their influence on sediment transport	301
	Numerical modelling of suspended sediment transport in compound channels	311
	Equilibrium scour in rivers with sandbeds	321
	Numerical simulation of rapidly varying flows in nonprismatic channels	337
	Energy conservation in open channel flow	347
	Parameter uncertainty in dam-break flood modelling	357
	Developments in three dimensional numerical modelling of river flows	371
	Comparisons between measured and numerically modelled unsteady flows in a compound channel using different representations of friction slope	383
	Computation of discharge and critical depth in compound channels	393
	An application of a new procedure for estimating discharges in meandering overbank flows to field data	405
	Modelling of flood hydraulics in compound channels	415
	Hydraulic resistance of river banks covered with trees and brushwood	427
	Impact of aquatic vegetation cutting	439
	Power law for velocity profiles in open-channel flood flows	449
	Large flow structures in meandering compound channels	459
	Management of fenland ditches for enhancement of wildlife habitats	473
	Rehabilitation of an urban river	483
	River maintenance evaluation	491
	A study on the environmental effects of 20 June 1990 flood in Trabzon and its neighbourhood, Turkey	501
	Environmentally led engineering: the Maidenhead Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation scheme	513
	Modelling morphological impact of a flood control dam	527
	An alternative approach for prediction of channel geometry in alluvium	537
	An assessment of the impacts of Dhaka city flood control project	553
	A risk methodology for determining an appropriate set-back distance for a flood embankment on the right bank of the Brahmaputra river	561
	Flood proofing potentials in Bangladesh flood management	579
	Floods management of large reservoirs: a case study of the operation of Mangla Dam in Pakistan during floods of 1992	595