Streamline-Based Method for Reconstruction of Complex Braided River Bathymetry
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Volume 26, Issue 5
Abstract
Reconstruction of complex braided river bathymetry is important for supporting hydrodynamic simulation and understanding river morphological processes. To our knowledge, existing methods generate and interpolate channel-fitted coordinate lines using the measured cross-sectional data to reconstruct river bathymetry. Nevertheless, in these methods, the generation of channel-fitted lines obeys the law of splines or a set of equations without considering the laws of river dynamics. Moreover, it is difficult to interpolate bathymetry using the channel-fitted lines when dealing with complex braided rivers. This paper introduced a novel method to fill the gap. Briefly, in the introduced method, an initial bathymetry is interpolated and a velocity field is calculated using a set of simplified two-dimensional (2D) shallow-water equations. Then, streamlines are generated using the velocity field data, and the elevations of the nodes on the streamlines are interpolated using the measured cross-sectional data. Finally, the bathymetry of the domain is interpolated using the streamlines and the measured elevation points or contour lines at the sandbars and floodplains. For demonstration purpose, the introduced method was applied to a section in the middle reaches of the Yellow River (China) with many branches and sandbars. The reconstructed bathymetry of the domain was investigated in terms of their geometrical shape and hydrodynamic performance (including inundation area and water level). When compared with the measured water level, the hydrodynamic results of the reconstructed bathymetry showed acceptable accuracy. In addition, because the channel-fitted method is widely applied to interpolate the river bathymetry, we compare the channel-fitted method with the introduced method in discussion section.
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Data Availability Statement
Some data regarding water edge and velocity field are available at https://github.com/lairuixun/generating_streamlines. A Fortran code, which generates streamlines based on velocity field, streamline function, and numerically solved by Runge–Kutta method, was made available. The nodes of streamlines were transformed into shapefile data format for interpolation.
Acknowledgments
This work was partially funded and supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51809108 and 51679102) and Special Foundation for Public-interest Institutes of China (HKY-JBYW-2020-01).
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