FLIRE Project

The urban water research group of the EWRE section has recently started working on Floods and Fire risk assessment and management (FLIRE) project

The urban water research group of the EWRE section under the supervision of Professor Cedo Maksimovic and Dr Ana Mijic has recently started working on Floods and Fire risk assessment and management (FLIRE) project. 

FLIRE is a demonstration project aiming to develop an integrated Decision Support System (DSS) for both flash flood and forest fire risk assessment and management.  The DSS tool will be designed by using state of the art tools, technologies and methods, taking into account prevention, adaptation and interaction issues. The final model will be available online to key stakeholders and relevant authorities (local and national) for the combined, effective and efficient management of flood and fire risks. 

EWRE team works on the urban flood modelling, which focuses on the efficient coupling of a surface flow model with a sewer flow model for the simulation and forecasting of flooding in the urbanised part of the study area (Rafina river basin, Greece). The expected outcome of this action is the development of a customised urban flood model of the area that may be implemented in cases where significant changes in land use, top soil infiltration and surface pathways morphology occur due to forest fires. The new urban model will be simplified for better management of computational time. More information about the FLIRE project can be found at www.flire.eu.