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Plesinski, Karol (2018). Numerical 2D Simulation of Morphological Phenomena of a Block Ramp in Poniczanka stream: Polish Carpathians. Daniel Bung, Blake Tullis, 7th IAHR International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures, Aachen, Germany, 15-18 May. doi: 10.15142/T31M17 (978-0-692-13277-7).
Abstract
Description of flow in streams is a very complex problem. Physical analyses of this phenomenon provide a quantitative description of water flow, allowing creating mathematical models having practical meaning. Fast development of programs has improved their practical implementations, so the results of analyses and solutions of flow problems in both open channels and pipes, obtained through numerical modelling, can be applied in practical solutions. Numerical models are often very useful in studies covering a wide range of analyzed parameters. However one must understand that the similarity between a real river and its model could only be partially verified. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the selected boulder block ramp hydraulic structure on Poniczanka stream on sediment transport, using the numerical model CCHE2D, assuming several situations, depending on the type of the river bed (erodible, non-erodible, rocky) and kind of rock blocks used for hydraulic structure construction. The obtained results were compared with the Hjulström graph, which is a classic approach for the identification of fluvial processes in the river channel (erosion, sedimentation, transport). In addition to these two methods, field observations were carried out which included the determination of changes in the horizontal and vertical changes of the riverbed morphology of the examined section river reach. The obtained results allowed determining the compatibility of these three methods for evaluation of sediment transport rate of river bed material in the analyzed sections of Poniczanka stream which are engineered with boulder block ramp hydraulic structures (BBR).
Numerical 2D Simulation of Morphological Phenomena of a Block Ramp in Poniczanka stream: Polish Carpathians
Description of flow in streams is a very complex problem. Physical analyses of this phenomenon provide a quantitative description of water flow, allowing creating mathematical models having practical meaning. Fast development of programs has improved their practical implementations, so the results of analyses and solutions of flow problems in both open channels and pipes, obtained through numerical modelling, can be applied in practical solutions. Numerical models are often very useful in studies covering a wide range of analyzed parameters. However one must understand that the similarity between a real river and its model could only be partially verified. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the selected boulder block ramp hydraulic structure on Poniczanka stream on sediment transport, using the numerical model CCHE2D, assuming several situations, depending on the type of the river bed (erodible, non-erodible, rocky) and kind of rock blocks used for hydraulic structure construction. The obtained results were compared with the Hjulström graph, which is a classic approach for the identification of fluvial processes in the river channel (erosion, sedimentation, transport). In addition to these two methods, field observations were carried out which included the determination of changes in the horizontal and vertical changes of the riverbed morphology of the examined section river reach. The obtained results allowed determining the compatibility of these three methods for evaluation of sediment transport rate of river bed material in the analyzed sections of Poniczanka stream which are engineered with boulder block ramp hydraulic structures (BBR).