US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Method and numerical three-dimensional model to simulate dam breach for homogeneous and zoned soil dams" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,721, issued on March 31.

"Method and numerical three-dimensional model to simulate dam breach for homogeneous and zoned soil dams" was invented by Zhengang Wang (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are method and a numerical three-dimensional dam breach model that calculate the dam break hydrograph for a homogeneous or zoned soil dam along with the visualized three-dimensional dam-breaching process and removed soil graph, wherein the failure mode can be overtopping failure, wind-generated wave overtopping failure, piping failure, or static liquefaction failure; wherein the dam can be breached at one location or mul...