Analysis of dam break and flood wave channeling of a pumped storage project at the "reservoir" location YHS Sfikias Bravas

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Duration: September 2024–November 2024

Budget: €25 000

Commissioned by: Public Power Corporation

Project director: A. Efstratiadis

The purpose of the research project is to provide scientific consultant services to DEI AE, which relate to the analysis of dam break phenomena and flood wave routing, for the pumped storage system under study at the location "Bravas" (about 0.6 km southeast of the Sfikia hydroelectric project). The construction of a dam is planned at the location in question, in order to form the upper reservoir of the system, while the artificial lake of Sfikia will be used as the lower reservoir. The construction of a production-pumping station on the SE bank of the reservoir (next to the "Bravas" site) is also planned, as well as the construction of an underground water transport system, which will connect the upper reservoir with the production-pumping station. The research object includes the modeling of the break of the dam (it concerns the main dam but also the smaller neck dam, in the SE), the hydrodynamic simulation of the passage of the flood wave, and the investigation of the effects they will cause on the existing lower reservoir of Sfikia, the flood wave and the materials that will be carried away by the collapse of the dam. The deliverable of the project will be the technical study and the required accompanying plans.