Optimal selection of numerical models for flood embankment pore pressure and temperature data

Abstract

This article presents a method of the stability assessment of the experimental flood embankment used in the ISMOP project. Simultaneous conduction of numerical modeling using Itasca Flac 2D 7.0 software and real performed flood experiments allows for a detailed analysis of the state of flood embankment stability. The aim of the article is a presentation of similarity assessment between numerical models and a real performed flooding experiment using an aggregate moving window and L1-norm. By evaluating these similarity measures, numerical models with greater resemblance to real data from a flood embankment are chosen. On this basis, the embankment stability state is evaluated. In addition, the purpose of this article is also to present the results of the performed tests between those gathered in the database numerical models and a real flooding experiment from a full-size earthen flood embankment with built-in sensors built in Czernichow, Poland.