Avalanche Defence Schemes

Andrew J. Hogg () and Tomas Jóhannesson ()
Additional contact information
Andrew J. Hogg: University of Bristol, School of Mathematics
Tomas Jóhannesson: Icelandic Meteorological Office

A chapter in UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics, 2016, pp 53-58 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Snow avalanches are hazardous. They flow rapidly down mountain gulleys, destroying homes, built infrastructure and leading to fatalities. One way of mitigating against the hazards they pose is to build large structures in their flow tracks to deflect, retard and arrest the motion. This article describes some of the research that underpins modern guidelines of how to design these structures. It reports mathematical models that capture the transformation in the state of the flowing avalanche as it interacts with large-scale obstacles and the predictions that can be used to optimise engineering designs.

Keywords: Froude Number; Deflector Angle; Dense Core; Flow Depth; Shallow Water Equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-25454-8_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319254548

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25454-8_7

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().