Optimal river cross section for both flood control and aquatic habitat in gravel beds

2020 ◽  
pp. 805-813
Author(s):  
Youichi Yasuda ◽  
Pietro Beretta Piccoli
Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 884
Author(s):  
Rawaa Shaheed ◽  
Abdolmajid Mohammadian ◽  
Xiaohui Yan

River bends are one of the common elements in most natural rivers, and secondary flow is one of the most important flow features in the bends. The secondary flow is perpendicular to the main flow and has a helical path moving towards the outer bank at the upper part of the river cross-section, and towards the inner bank at the lower part of the river cross-section. The secondary flow causes a redistribution in the main flow. Accordingly, this redistribution and sediment transport by the secondary flow may lead to the formation of a typical pattern of river bend profile. It is important to study and understand the flow pattern in order to predict the profile and the position of the bend in the river. However, there are a lack of comprehensive reviews on the advances in numerical modeling of bend secondary flow in the literature. Therefore, this study comprehensively reviews the fundamentals of secondary flow, the governing equations and boundary conditions for numerical simulations, and previous numerical studies on river bend flows. Most importantly, it reviews various numerical simulation strategies and performance of various turbulence models in simulating the flow in river bends and concludes that the main problem is finding the appropriate model for each case of turbulent flow. The present review summarizes the recent advances in numerical modeling of secondary flow and points out the key challenges, which can provide useful information for future studies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Asril Zevri

Abstract: Belawan River Basin is one of the watershed, which currently change the land use because of the increasing population and industrial development. Rainfall with high intensity can cause rapid runoff, causing flood around the plains of the river cross section. The purpose of this research is to determine the flood water level of Belawan Watershed and flood discharge return period. Scope of activity in this research is analyzing daily rainfall Belawan watershed with the flood-discharge return period. Scope of activity in this research is analyzing maximum daily rainfall Belawan Watershed, and simulating flood water level with HECRAS. The result of the study shows that the potency of Belawan watershed flood water level is caused by flood discharge at 25 to 100 years especially in the middle to downstream of river cross section that is between 0.7 m and 3.3 m. Keywords: Flood Discharge, Flood Level, Belawan Watershed, Software HECRAS. Abstrak: Daerah Aliran Sungai Belawan adalah salah satu DAS yang pada saat ini mengalami perubahan tata guna lahan seiring bertambahnya jumlah penduduk dan perkembangan industri. Curah hujan yang tinggi dapat mengakibatkan limpasan sehingga menimbulkan tinggi muka air banjir di sekitar dataran penampang sungai. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mensimulasi tinggi muka air banjir DAS Belawan dengan debit banjir periode kala ulangnya. Lingkup kegiatan dalam penelitian ini yaitu menganalisa curah hujan harian maksimum rata-rata DAS Belawan dan menganalisa debit banjir kala ulang 2 sampai dengan 100 tahun, mensimulasi tinggi muka air banjir dengan HECRAS. Hasil studi menunjukan potensi tinggi muka air banjir DAS Belawan terjadi akibat debit banjir periode kala ulang 25 sampai dengan 100 tahun khususnya  di bagian tengah sampai hilir penampang sungai yaitu berkisar antara 0.7 m sampai dengan 3.3 m. Kata kunci: Debit banjir, Tinggi Banjir, DAS Belawan, Software HECRAS.


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sudarmanto ,

Placement of the weir in the river Batang Gadis will cause population anxiety in the village Pulungan which located upstream weir as far as 3 km, due to a weir can cause water surface profile of the river getting higher and ultimately to increase the pool of flooding in residential areas.Assuming modeling of river a uniform flow, river cross-section has a rectangular shape with width 50 m and 40 m, the roughness Manning 0.0025, the profile of water flow floods that occurred in 2 yaears, 25 years, and 100 years before and after the existing weir can be calculated by numerical integration methods.  From the calculation, the length of the water behind the weir is 1.4 km upstream towards the weir, which means that the depth of the water level rises to as far as 1.4 km and after that the depth of water before and after there the weir is same. Because the village Pulungan located 3 km to the upstream, the weir did not affect the increase in the flood waters in the village Pulungan. At 2 years flood discharge does not cause inundation in the village Pulungan, but the flood discharge 25 years and 100 years has led to inundation in the village Pulungan with the depth of each pool 0.971 m and 1.675 m. Keywords: uniform flow, numerical integration, inundation, flood discharge.


2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Farina ◽  
S. Alvisi ◽  
M. Franchini

This paper presents a procedure for estimating discharge in a river cross-section based on the combined use of dimensionless isovels and point velocity measurements. Specifically, taking the Biot–Savart law on the magnetic field induced by an electric current in a wire as their basis as already done by other researchers, the authors propose a new formulation of the relationship characterizing the effect of the wetted perimeter on the range of velocities in a cross-section in order to take explicit account of roughness, expressed by means of Manning's coefficient. Once appropriately nondimensionalized, the isoeffect contours can be read as dimensionless isovels. Assuming in situ velocity measurements are available, discharge at a cross-section can be computed using two different methods. The proposed procedure was applied to six case studies characterized by river cross-sections which differed greatly from one another. The results show that the two methods proposed for estimating discharge lead to equivalent outcomes, and in all the cases the procedure as a whole enables a sufficiently accurate estimation of discharge, even when it is based on a limited number of velocity measurements or on the measurement of maximum surface-water velocity alone.


1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek G. Goring ◽  
Jeremy M. Walsh ◽  
Peter Rutschmann ◽  
Jürg Trösch

Author(s):  
Kareem Abd Ali Kareem ◽  
Hayder A.K. AL-Thamiry

Galal Badrah River is one of Iraqi-Iranian border crossing rivers. This river is usually seasonally flooded during any time started from January to May. Its maximum discharge is 2200 m3/s which was recorded during 1985. During floods, banks of this river at many locations need protection against scour problem during floods. A small dam was constructed on this river in 2010 for the purposes of flood control and storage of water.  The weir of the dam has a design discharge of 1250 m3/s. Sediments started to accumulate in the reservoir of the dam that reduce its design capacity to 10% during 2017. The flow of Galal Badrah River was simulated by using HEC-RAS 5.0.3 models. were used to simulate by using. Two hydrographs were used at upstream side of the river, one with a maximum discharge of 1250 m3/s and the other is of 2200 m3/s. A normal flow depth is used as a downstream boundary condition. Results of the simulation showed that the velocities to be higher than allowable velocity of scouring. The protection of Galal Badrah river by stack boulders is suggested to be used to avoid the scour at the river bank. The protection will increase Manning’s roughness coefficient from 0.028 to 0.10. The percentage of reduction in velocities after the river protection for the discharges of 1250 and 2200 m3/s were found to be 65.23% and 60.55%, respectively. The reduction in velocity caused increase in the river water levels. As a result, a flood embankment is required to be constructed on the right bank of the river with a height ranges from 2.5 to 5.6 m depending on the water depth at river cross section.


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Zygmunt Miatkowski ◽  
Karolina Smarzyńska

AbstractThe goal of the paper was to determine surface water resources of an agricultural watershed representative for the areas of intensive crop production in the Kujawy region. This area is characterised by the lowest average annual precipitation in Poland and high water demands related to the intensive crop production.Hydrological studies were carried out in 2007–2011 in the upper Zgłowiączka River watershed located in the eastern part of the analysed region. Over 90% of the study area is used as an arable land.Water velocity in the river bed and water level were measured at the outlet of the watershed in the river cross-section Samszyce.The upper Zgłowiączka River has a snow-rainfall hydrological regime, strongly modified by anthropogenic activities related to the intensive crop production and installation of subsurface drainage system. The study period was characterised by very large temporal variability of hydrological conditions. The mean annual outflow coefficient amounted to 18% and varied highly in time: from 3% in the average years to 62% in the abnormally wet 2011. Average discharge (SSQ) in the Samszyce river cross-section was equal to 0.25 m3·s−1, and the mean unit outflow – to 3.2 dm3·s−1·km−2. The results of the study show that disposable surface water resources of the Kujawy region are very small, especially in the summer half-year. Thus, their utilization as a potential source of water for crop irrigation can be taken into account only, if water excesses will be retained within the watershed and used in conjunction with groundwater resources.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2785-2788
Author(s):  
Shuai Sun

Fluvial greenway connectivity has multiple dimensions, so it is the complex ecosystems of nature. The longitudinal connectivity of fluvial greenway is directly related to the natural flow of water, and is sensible and cognizable. The lateral Connectivity of fluvial greenway is closely linked to the Flood Pulse Concept and river cross-section design. The vertical connectivity of fluvial greenway refers to the vertical materials and energy circulation performance and the biocoenosis relevancy in the cross section of the river. They constitute the complicated continuum system of fluvial greenway.


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