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Mud Flow— Slow and Fast

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Geomorphological Fluid Mechanics

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Heavy and persistent rainfalls in mountainous areas can loosen the hillslope and induce mud flows which can move stones, boulders and even trees, with destructive power on their path. In China where 70% of the land surface is covered by mountains, debris flows due to landslides or rainfalls affect over 18.6% of the nation. Over 10,000 debris flow ravines have been identified; hundreds of lives are lost every year [1]. While accurate assessment is still pending, mud flows caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 have incurred devastating floods in Central America. In Honduras alone more than 6000 people perished. Half of the nation’s infrastructures were damaged.

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  1. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    C. C. Mei

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    K.-F. Liu

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8667, Ishikawa, Japan

    M. Yuhi

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Mei, C.C., Liu, KF., Yuhi, M. (2001). Mud Flow— Slow and Fast. In: Balmforth, N.J., Provenzale, A. (eds) Geomorphological Fluid Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 582. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45670-8_22

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