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This paper presents a study of the monitorization of the conveyance system of the collective water network in the framework of the Lis Valley Water Management Operational Group, aiming the improvement of water management by the Water Users’ Association. The methodology considered the measurement of water allocation to main canals, its distribution throughout the conveyance system, and the on-farm irrigation demand. This paper presents the results of Canal 2, for 2019 and 2020 irrigation seasons. This canal supplies an area of 410 ha, is gravity-fed from Lis river, on the Arrabalde weir, in Leiria, and has a pumping recharge during the irrigation peak period. A water balance of supply and irrigation demand was carried out at 10-day period, to evaluate the performance of the distribution water management. The analyzed system reveals the specificity of the drainage water reuse, which leads to a more flexible management of water allocated by gravity-fed, and rational of pumping supply, in order to adjust it to irrigation demand, through energy consumption. Results point to actions that prioritize consolidating the improvement management of water resources, like the implementation of optimal operational plans to adjust the water demand with distribution, accompanied with the improvement of the on-farm irrigation systems.

International audience; The drag reduction method using polymer additives is a common strategy to minimize friction losses when carrying fluids (water, oil, or slurries) in pipes over long distances. Previous studies showed that the interactions between the polymer and turbulent structures of the flow tend to modify the streamwise velocity profile close to the walls by adding a so-called elastic sublayer between the classical viscous and log layers. The gain in linear head losses can reach up to 80% depending on the roughness of the walls and the concentration of polymers. The application of this technique to sewers and the subsequent gain in discharge capacity motivated this work to quantitatively measure the drag reduction in classical open-channel flows. Three measurement campaigns were performed in a dedicated long flume for several water discharges and several polymer concentrations: backwater curves over smooth and rough channel walls (including velocity and turbulent shear-stress profiles) and flows around emerging obstacles. The addition of polymers, even in limited concentrations, allowed a high friction decrease with the typical Darcy-Weisbach coefficient reduced by factors of 2 and 1.5, respectively, in smooth and rough walls configurations without obstacles, but without strong modifications of the nondimensional velocity profiles. In contrast, when adding emerging obstacles, the flow was unaffected by the inclusion of polymers, in agreement with the prediction of the literature. The drag reduction method by addition of small concentrations of polymers thus appears to be a promising technique to increase flow conveyance in open-channel flows.

In this work, surface/interface effects for pull-in voltage and viscous fluid velocity effects on dimensionless natural frequency (DNF) of fluid-conveying multi walled piezoelectric nanoresonator (FC-MWPENS) based on cylindrical nanoshell is investigated using the Gurtin–Murdoch surface/interface theory. The nano-sensor is embedded in viscoelastic foundation, nonlinear van der Waals and electrostatic forces. Hamilton’s principle is used for deriving of the governing equations and boundary conditions and also the assumed mode method is used for changing the partial differential equations into ordinary differential equation. The influences of the surface/interface effect such as Lame’s constants, residual stress, piezoelectric constants and mass density are considered for analysis of dimensionless natural frequency respect to viscous fluid velocity and pull-in voltage of FC-MWPENS.

As it is known, vegetation is an important component of aquatic ecosystems. Because of the variety of species and, thus, of the characteristics of the vegetation elements (form, size, stiffness, etc.), it is difficult to develop a widely applicable method to predict mean flow and flow resistance. Despite the intense activity research, much work has to be done in understanding hydrodynamics in vegetated channels. This is important to analyse many physical processes involved in the ecosystem at different spatial and time scales. In this paper, attention is restricted to flexible vegetation. After a brief description of results obtained in previous experimental works conducted in a rectangular laboratory flume at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale, dei Materiali – University of Palermo (Italy), the data are used to investigate how stems' concentration and flow submergence affect the mean flow and flow conveyance characteristics in vegetated channels. The results indicate that both these parameters affect the flow profile and flow conveyance characteristics, but flow submergence especially influences the dominant mechanism of momentum exchange between the vegetation layer and the layer above it.

The 1999 jokulhlaup at Solheimajokull was the first major flood to be routed through the proglacial system in over 600 years. This study reconstructed the flood using hydrodynamic, sediment transport and morphodynamic numerical modelling informed by field surveys, aerial photograph and digital elevation model analysis. Total modelled sediment transport was 469 800 m3 (+/- 20%). Maximum erosion of 8.2 m occurred along the ice margin. Modelled net landscape change was –86 400 m3 (+/- 40%) resulting from –275 400 m3 (+/- 20%) proglacial erosion and 194 400 m3 (+/- 20%) proglacial deposition. Peak erosion rate and peak deposition rate were 650 m3 s-1 (+/- 20%) and 595 m3 s-1 (+/- 20%), respectively, and coincided with peak discharge of water at 1.5 h after flood initiation. The pattern of bed elevation change during the rising limb suggested widespread activation of the bed, whereas more organisation, perhaps primitive bedform development, occurred during the falling limb. Contrary to simplistic conceptual models, deposition occurred on the rising stage and erosion occurred on the falling limb. Comparison of the morphodynamic results with a hydrodynamic simulation illustrated effects of sediment transport and bed elevation change on flow conveyance. The morphodynamic model advanced flood arrival and peak discharge timings by 100% and 19%, respectively. However, peak flow depth and peak flow velocity were not significantly affected. We suggest that morphodynamic processes not only increase flow mass and momentum but that they also introduce a feedback process whereby flood conveyance becomes more efficient via erosion of minor bed protrusions and deposition that infills or subdues minor bed hollows. A major implication of this study is that reconstructions of outburst floods that ignore sediment transport, such as those used in interpretation of long-term hydrological record and flood risk assessments, may need considerable refinement. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

In-stream and riparian vegetation may significantly affect flow and sediment transport in vegetated channels. A hydraulic model has been developed in this paper to compute the flow discharge in channels with rigid and flexible vegetation under emergent and submerged conditions. An empirical formula has also been presented to determine the bed-load discharge in vegetated channels. The model has been tested against experimental and field data available in the literature. The computed flow discharge and bed-load transport rate agree well with the measured data.

Grass swales, originally used for erosion control in agricultural settings, are now widely employed in urban environments as an effective best management practice for controlling pollutants in stormwater runoff. In particular, vegetated swales are quite successful in removing heavy metal concentrations when the depth of flow is small relative to grass height. However, guidance materials currently available for design of vegetated channels focus on larger depths of flow (large flow conveyance/erosion control), and for such conditions the hydraulic resistance exerted by the vegetation can be significantly different than that observed when the depth of flow is small (remediation). Utilizing a series of laboratory channels, small-flow retardance curves have been developed in the present work for Bluegrass, Centipede, and Zoysia grass species. These “small-flow” curves extend the well-known Stillwater n versus VR diagram by approximately 1 order of magnitude, to smaller values of VR . Experimental results shou...

A low-lying part of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, is exposed to flood risk from the Sava River. The biggest flood to data, with catastrophic consequences, occurred on 26 November 1964. To protect Zagreb from the Sava River floods, a flood control system was built and set in operation at the end of 1978. The Sava River's flood response changed over time as a result of this constructed system, as well as other anthropogenic and natural influences. The series of maximum annual Sava River stages and discharges measured at the Zagreb gauging station from 1926 to 2004 were analysed. Hydrological methods were used in order to assess Zagreb safety from the Sava River floods in the new conditions. This paper detects changes in high water occurrence in the Sava River near Zagreb. Long-term stages and linear trends in discharges were examined. A simple technique for the conversion of stages to actual river channel morphology conditions was used. The technique presented in this paper enabled the recalculation of flood probabilities. It is stressed that for a complete understanding of floods, an examination should include the study of parameters of both maximum stages and maximum discharges.

최근 급속한 도시화로 인한 유역 내 불투수 면적의 증가는 자연유역에 비해 짧은 도달시간과 높은 첨두 홍수량을 유발하여 도시홍수 피해의 원인이 되고 있다. 따라서 홍수피해를 저감시키고자 구조물적 또는 비구조물적 홍수방어 대책들을 마련하여 시행하고 있다. 본 연구의 대상유역인 굴포천 유역은 유역 내의 유출 특성이 아닌 하류의 한강 외수위 조건에 의해 잦은 침수 피해가 발생하고 있으며, 이를 예방하고자 폭 20m의 임시 방수로를 폭 80m로 확장할 예정이다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 대표적인 도시 유출 모형의 하나인 EPA의 SWMM 모형을 근간으로 하는 XP-SWMM모형을 이용해 굴포천 방수로 확장에 따른 홍수소통능력을 분석하였다. 재현기간 100년인 설계 강우와 동일한 조위 조건 하에서 개수전과 후에 대한 수위와 유량을 비교하였으며, 분석결과 개수전 상황이 개수후에 비해 통과 유량이 1/3임에도 불구하고 비슷하거나 더 높은 수위를 나타내었다. 또한 개수후 상태에서 모의한 결과 방수로 분기점에서 자연 분류시킬 경우 최고 $300m^3/sec$ 가까운 유량이 방수로 방향으로 역류함을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 방수로의 안정적 운영을 위해서는 굴포천 하류로부터 방수로로의 역류를 차단하기 위한 수리 시설물의 설치가 필요함을 확인할 수 있었다. 【In recent, increasing of the impervious area gives rise to short concentration time and high peak discharge comparing with natural watershed and it is a cause of urban flood damage. Therefore, we have performed for structural and non-structural plans to reduce the damage from inundation. The Gulpo-cheon basin had been frequently inundated and damaged due to the water level of Han river. So, the Gulpo-cheon floodway was constructed with 20 meters width for flood control in the basin but it was not enough for our expectation and now we have a plan to expand the floodway to 80 meters. We use a XP-SWMM model developed based on EPA-SWMM version for analyzing the capacity of flood conveyance by the expansion of Gulpo-cheon floodway with the same 100 years return period design storm and the same tidal conditions of the Yellow sea. The flood conveyance after the expansion of floodway becomes three times comparing it with before the expansion. Also we simulate the flood discharge at the diversion point of Gulpo-cheon for the expanded condition of floodway and know that the discharge of about 300 m3/sec is flowing backward to the expanded floodway. Therefore we may need some kinds of hydraulic structures to prevent the back water.】

By using the electrical resistivity Wenner configuration, 22 sounding points were used to study the shallow subsurface geology along a proposed pass for construction of a flow convergence system in a part of Alexandria, Egypt. The study indicated that no abnormal hidden subsurface objects are present to prevent completion of the project. Lateral inhomogeneities are detected by differences in resistivity values. Some saturated limestone layers also are detected. The associated water may hinder the drilling activities. The geophysical data correlate with the results obtained from nearby boreholes.

2005 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 7 - March 9, 2005., Includes bibliographical references., The Bureau of Reclamation Automated Modified Einstein Procedure (BORAMEP) is a computer model that utilizes the Modified Einstein Procedure (MEP) to estimate the total sediment load in a hydraulic system. The effectiveness of BORAMEP has been evaluated by using sediment and hydraulic data from Low Flow Conveyance Channel (LFCC) on the Middle Rio Grande. The total load and sand load at three cross sections of the Low Flow Conveyance Channel were calculated using three different methods. The suspended sediment load was also calculated. BORAMEP total load results appear to be consistent with the total load estimates from the sampling sills at flow rates near 300 cfs but tend to underestimate the total load at flow rates near 600 cfs by at least a factor of two when compared to the total load estimates from the sampling sills. Sand load estimates from BORAMEP appear to be consistent with sand load estimates from the sampling sills at flow rates near 300 and 600 cfs.