Two-dimensional hydraulic modelling technology has advanced significantly in recent years, providing powerful and flexible tools that are now routinely used for a wide variety of flood risk assessments. Assessing the downstream impacts of catastrophic dam failure represents an extreme test for the accuracy and stability of hydraulic models. Catastrophic dam failure can present an extreme risk to downstream infrastructure and public safety. Hence, it is important to have confidence in the estimated magnitude of potential impacts to design suitable, costeffective mitigation measures. The highly visual output of two-dimensional models adds credibility to their results. However, validation data for extreme hydraulic conditions is rarely available, resulting in uncertainty in the accuracy of model predictions and in the risks associated with dam failure. By validating numerical model results against analytical solutions for cases of simple geometry and also against realworld data, an improved level of confidence can be obtained in the accuracy of the model representation of these extreme hydraulic conditions. In this paper, we assessed the capability of the TUFLOW hydraulic modelling software package to accurately simulate an idealised dam break scenario by comparing the model results to analytical solutions. We also compared the model results for coastal inundation by a tsunami to real-world data from the 2004 Banda Ache (Indonesia) tsunami. The results showed that the HPC solver version of TUFLOW correctly captures the dam break flood fronts and the flood wave propagation and TUFLOW HPC is well suited for dam break flood modelling.
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