MIKE FLOOD Urban Flood Modelling Step by Step
MIKE FLOOD Urban Flood Modelling Step by Step
MIKE FLOOD Urban Flood Modelling Step by Step
MIKE FLOOD
Modelling of Urban Flooding
Step-by-step training guide
1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 3
1.1 Background........................................................................................................................ 3
1.2 Objective ........................................................................................................................... 4
1 INTRODUCTION
This Step-by-step training guide focuses on urban flooding in the city
of Bangkok, Thailand. A typical picture of flooding in the city after a
minor heavy rain event in Bangkok can be seen in Figure 1.1.
Figure 1.1 The Nontaburi area in Bangkok after a minor heavy rain event
on 27 April 2002.
1.1 Background
Bangkok has a very high level of economical activities and the most
important national offices are situated in Bangkok. When heavy
rainfall occurs in Bangkok, some of the consequences are: heavy
traffic jams, water logging, blackouts, and big economical losses due
to property damage. Improved understanding and analysis of the
flooding conditions in the city centre of Bangkok will help the city
administration manage and mitigate flooding and associated damage.
The urban inundation maps produced by the model are ideal for
visualizing and understanding historical flood events. Subsequently
MIKE FLOOD may be applied to identify the most efficient and cost
effective ways for reducing the stress from flooding.
1.2 Objective
The objective of this step-by-step training guide is to make the user
familiar with the MIKE FLOOD user interface. I.e. after going through
this guide the user should be able to configure and run MIKE FLOOD
simulations.
The files used in this step-by-step training guide can be found in your
MIKE Zero installation folder. If you have chosen the default
installation folder, you should look in:
C:\Program Files\DHI\MIKEZero\Examples\MIKE_FLOOD\Urban
Hence, you do not need to generate all the MIKE FLOOD input
parameters yourself. All the MIKE FLOOD input parameter files
needed to start a simulation are included.
4 MIKE FLOOD
Figure 2.1. The first menu - when you open MIKE FLOOD.
Select File | Open | File and open the predefined MIKE FLOOD
model setup. It is located in:
C:\Program Files\DHI\MIKEZero\Examples\MIKE_FLOOD\Urban\mflood\MIKEFLOOD.couple
This file contains a MIKE FLOOD model setup, which covers a small
part of Bangkok, Thailand. After opening the MIKE FLOOD coupling
file the menu changes to the MIKE FLOOD main menu. See Figure
2.2.
From the MIKE FLOOD main menu you have access to four sub-
menus. For the urban simulation you only work with the menus
Definition and Urban Link Options. These two menus are
explained below.
The upper menu field next to Edit MIKE 21 input, specifies the
MIKE 21 data used for the overland flow simulation. In order to
edit/inspect the MIKE 21 data simply click Edit MIKE 21 input.
Add a tick mark next to the line Edit MIKE URBAN and it is now
possible to add the data for MOUSE or MIKE URBAN. Note, that a
MIKE URBAN data file can only be added if you have MIKE
URBAN installed on you computer. Also, note that all the software:
MIKE FLOOD, MIKE 21, MIKE URBAN, MOUSE must be from
the same DHI software release!
After adding the MIKE 21 and the MIKE URBAN / MOUSE data
the layout of the data will be displayed in the horizontal plot on the
menu.
6 MIKE FLOOD
Figure 2.3 Adding files to the project and the horizontal plot of the MIKE 21
and the pipe network from MIKE URBAN / MOUSE.
Open the menu with the option for the horizontal plot by right
clicking on the plot. Select Add/Remove Images and specify the
file type and load the file by clicking on the selection next to the file
type, see Figure 2.4. Set the size of the image by selecting Edit next
to the field with the filename. Specify the coordinates for the lower left
corner together with the pixel length and height the total size of the
image will then be computed automatically see Figure 2.5.
8 MIKE FLOOD
Figure 2.7 The MIKE FLOOD model with a background image from down
town Bangkok.
2.3 Linking the MIKE 21 with the MIKE URBAN / MOUSE model
In order to generate the links between the MIKE 21 and the MIKE
URBAN / MOUSE models right click on the horizontal plot and
select Link node to MIKE 21 see figure 2.8.
The nodes can now be linked between the two models in the following
ways:
Note, at present the automatically link only works for nodes e.g. link
types M21 to inlet and M21 to outlet.
J K
760 563
761 563
10 MIKE FLOOD
Figure 2.10 Linking of a node to multiple grids in MIKE 21 i.e. the two red
cells.
2.4 Defining the link types between MIKE 21 and URBAN / MOUSE
In the menu Urban Link Options the connection type and parameters
are set for each connection between the MIKE URBAN / MOUSE and
the MIKE 21 models.
Each line specifies one connection point between the models. The
number in the list corresponds to the number on the Definition
menu.
12 MIKE FLOOD
4 RESULT PRESENTATION
The results from the simulations can be presented in MIKE View or
inside the MIKE Zero results presentation. For the results presentation
of the MIKE 21 overland flow results in the DFS2 file format - pls.
refer to the MIKE Zero manual.
In MIKE View the results from the MIKE URBAN / MOUSE and the
MIKE 21 simulation can be viewed simultaneously. First load the
MIKE URBAN / MOUSE result file in this case urban.prf then
choose File and select Add DSF2 file. Browse to the results
directory and add the file overland.dfs2.
Figure 4.1 Adding the MIKE 21 result file to an existing MOUSE result file
inside MIKE View.
In order to e.g. see the max. flooding for the urban simulation open
the Options menu and select to plot the Link Water Level and
Maximum see Figure 4.2.
Figure 4.2 Setting of the parameters for plotting the maximum flooding during
the MIKE FLOOD URBAN simulation.
14 MIKE FLOOD
In order to see the max flooding from the MIKE 21 simulation load the
dfs2 file generated from the inundation calculation (see section 2.5).
The resulting plot of the maximum flooding can be seen in Figure 4.3.
Figure 4.3 Maximum Flooding during the MIKE FLOOD URBAN simulation.