Numerical Approach to an Outflow Hydrograph of a Dambreak

Abstract

In this paper ouflow hydrographs of a dam breach were ob tained by means of a reservoir numerical flood routing algorithm which takes into count the variations in the width of the breach and the height of the dam; the obtained out flow hydrographs were considered for three different situations; finally these hydrographs were used as in put data in a wave propagation model of a river located down stream of the hydropower project La Parota, Gro., Mexico