A Prototype-Model for the scientific simulation of the Jure Landslide, Sindhupalchowk, Central-North, Nepal. The triggered material initially consisted largely of rock and soil. Upon impacting the Sunkosi river, this large landslide generated about 3 km long, several tens of meters high, landslide dammed reservoir upstream of the impact in Sunkosi. This landslide is one of the most destructive natural catastrophic events in the recent history of the Himalayan nation, Nepal.

Scientists and researchers from Kathmandu University, in collaboration with the University of Bonn and other European Universities and Research Institutes, are working on the scientific simulation of the model pertaining to this event with a physics-based two-phase mass flow model that appropriately takes into account both the material constituents, the solid particles and the viscous fluid, and the interaction of the catastrophically sliding mass with the mountain topography, settlement, forest, highway and the river. The research also includes the creation and dynamics of the landslide dammed lake, instantaneous lateral spreading, super-elevation on the opposite mountain flank, and the possible scenario of the breaching of the dammed reservoir and its devastating consequences in the downstream as the dambreak induced rapid hyperconcentrated flow cascades downslope, akin to the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood, and particle transport in the steep Himalayan torrents.