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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2014.34.6.1753

Feasibility Calculation of FaSTMECH for 2D Velocity Distribution Simulation in Meandering Channel  

Son, Geunsoo (Dankook University)
You, Hojun (Dankook University)
Kim, Dongsu (Dankook University)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.34, no.6, 2014 , pp. 1753-1764 More about this Journal
Abstract
Numerical flow simulation models in the riverine environments have been widely utilized for analyzing flow dynamics in various degrees in researches and practical applications. However, most of the simulated results have been validated based on the data from indoor experimental models or very limited in-situ measurements. Therefore, it has been required to more accurately validate the performance of the numerical models in terms of the detailed field observations. In particular, it was also hard to validate the performances of the existing numerical models in the real meandered river channels that encompass more sophisticated flow and geometric structures. Recently, advancements of the modern flow measuring instrumentations such as acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) enabled us to efficiently acquire the detailed flow field in the broad range of river channels, thus that it became to be possible to accurately validate any numerical models with the field observations. In this study, based on the detailed flow measurements in a actual meandered river channel using ADCP, we validated FaSTMECH model in iRIC in terms of water surface elevation, which is relatively new but began to get highlighted in the research areas. As the validation site, a meandering channel in River Experiment Center of KICT was chosen, which has 6.5 m of width, 0.38m of flow depth, 1.54 m3/s of flow discharge, 0.61 m/s of mean flow velocity, and 1.2 of sinuosity. As results, whereas the FaSTMECH precisely simulated water surface elevation, simulated velocity field in the bend did not match well with ADCP dataset.
Keywords
Meandering river; FaSTMECH; ADCP; Flow validation;
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