Numerical Simulation of Relatively Wide, Shallow Channels with Erodible Banks
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 131, Issue 7
Abstract
A two-dimensional numerical model was developed to simulate relatively wide, shallow rivers with an erodible bed and banks composed of well-sorted, sandy materials. A moving boundary-fitted coordinate system was used to calculate water flow, bed change, and bank erosion. The cubic interpolated pseudoparticle method was used to calculate flow, which introduced little numerical diffusion. The sediment-transport equation for the streamline and transverse transport was used to estimate bed and bank evolution over time, while considering the secondary flow. Bank erosion was simulated when the gradient in the cross-sectional direction of the banks was steeper than the submerged angle of repose because of bed erosion near the banks. The numerical model reproduced the features of central bars well, such as bar growth, channel widening due to divergence of the flow around the bars, scour holes at the lee of the bars, and the increase of bar size with time. These features were in accordance with the observations for laboratory experiments. It also reproduced the features of braided rivers, such as the generation of new channels and abandonment of old channels, the bifurcation and confluence of channels, and the lateral migration of the channels. The model showed that the sediment discharge rate fluctuated with time, one of the dynamic features observed in braided channels.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 131 • Issue 7 • July 2005
Pages: 565 - 575
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Received: Aug 26, 2002
Accepted: Dec 7, 2004
Published online: Jul 1, 2005
Published in print: Jul 2005
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