The focus of the Urban floods and hydrodynamics group is on the development of fast models to predict urban pluvial floods to ultimately make real time urban pluvial flooding prediction possible. Moreover, the group focuses on the development of novel methods to utilize ubiquitous image data, e.g. from social media images and surveillance systems, to better understand urban flood behaviour and support flood risk management. Other research topics of the current group research portfolio is related to the development of novel urban stormwater management solutions (ranging from grey to blue-green infrastructure) to improve the performance of the urban drainage systems and simultaneously contribute to tackling challenges (such as urban heat) posed by climate change and increased urbanisation scenarios.
