One-Dimensional Particle Tracking with Streamline Preserving Junctions for Flows in Channel Networks
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 144, Issue 2
Abstract
A pseudo-three-dimensional particle tracking model of drifter paths has been developed to study the movement of scalars through a complex network of tidal channels and junctions. To better simulate dispersion caused by bifurcation and merging at junctions, a localized model is proposed in which particles move along potential flow streamlines through junctions. The model is applied to the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta in the California Central Valley, and the approach reproduces the observed ultimate fate of the endangered native fish Delta smelt more accurately than a model that fully randomizes particle positions at junctions. The new model also reproduces the very large dispersion that has been previously inferred from Delta-wide heat balances; this large dispersion appears to be associated with flow splits at junctions. Overall, the streamline-following model is likely to be more accurate for long-term planning and management simulations of such complex estuaries than more commonly used cross-sectionally averaged Lagrangian transport equation solvers, which randomize concentration distributions of scalars at junctions, and thereby do not reproduce the increased dispersion mechanisms.
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Acknowledgments
Initial funding for this work was provided by the CALFED science program. Later support for VKS was provided by the Singapore Stanford Partnership; Stanford University through a Leavell Fellowship for the Sustainable Built Environment; and by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. The authors are grateful to Dr. Eli Ateljevich at DWR for his assistance with using the DSM2 suite of models. The authors also acknowledge the constructive feedback of two anonymous reviewers; an anonymous associate editor; and Chief Editor, Thanos Papanicolaou, for greatly improving the quality of the manuscript.
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Received: Sep 8, 2016
Accepted: Jul 11, 2017
Published online: Nov 29, 2017
Published in print: Feb 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Apr 29, 2018
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