Mountain catchments are prone to flash flooding due to heavy rainfall. Enhanced understanding of the generation and evolution processes of flash floods is essential for effective flood risk management. However, tradit...Mountain catchments are prone to flash flooding due to heavy rainfall. Enhanced understanding of the generation and evolution processes of flash floods is essential for effective flood risk management. However, traditional distributed hydrological models based on kinematic and diffusion wave approximations ignore certain physical mechanisms of flash floods and thus bear excessive uncertainty. Here a hydrodynamic model is presented for flash floods based on the full two-dimensional shallow water equations incorporating rainfall and infiltration. Laboratory experiments of overland flows were modelled to illustrate the capability of the model. Then the model was applied to resolve two observed flash floods of distinct magnitudes in the Lengkou catchment in Shanxi Province, China. The present model is shown to be able to reproduce the flood flows fairly well compared to the observed data. The spatial distribution of rainfall is shown to be crucial for the modelling of flash floods. Sensitivity analyses of the model parameters reveal that the stage and discharge hydrographs are more sensitive to the Manning roughness and initial water content in the catchment than to the Green-Ampt head. Most notably, as the flash flood augments due to heavier rainfall, the modelling results agree with observed data better, which clearly characterizes the paramount role of rainfall in dictating the floods. From practical perspectives, the proposed model is more appropriate for modelling large flash floods.展开更多
One of the largest known megafloods on earth resulted from a glacier dam-break,which occurred during the Late Quaternary in the Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia.Computational modeling is one of the viable approache...One of the largest known megafloods on earth resulted from a glacier dam-break,which occurred during the Late Quaternary in the Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia.Computational modeling is one of the viable approaches to enhancing the understanding of the flood events.The computational domain of this flood is over 9460 km2 and about 3.784 × 106 cells are involved as a 50 m × 50 m mesh is used,which necessitates a computationally efficient model.Here the Open MP(Open Multiprocessing) technique is adopted to parallelize the code of a coupled 2D hydrodynamic and sediment transport model.It is shown that the computational efficiency is enhanced by over 80% due to the parallelization.The floods over both fixed and mobile beds are well reproduced with specified discharge hydrographs at the dam site.Qualitatively,backwater effects during the flood are resolved at the bifurcation between the Chuja and Katun rivers.Quantitatively,the computed maximum stage and thalweg are physically consistent with the field data of the bars and deposits.The effects of sediment transport and morphological evolution on the flood are considerable.Sensitivity analyses indicate that the impact of the peak discharge is significant,whilst those of the Manningroughness,medium sediment size and shape of the inlet discharge hydrograph are marginal.展开更多
Rivers often witness non-uniform bed load sedim ent transport. For a long tim e, non-uniform bed load transport has been assum ed to be at capacity regime determined exclusively by local flow. Yet whether the capacity...Rivers often witness non-uniform bed load sedim ent transport. For a long tim e, non-uniform bed load transport has been assum ed to be at capacity regime determined exclusively by local flow. Yet whether the capacity assumption for non-uniform bed load transport is justified remains poorly understood. Here, the relative time scale of non-uniform bed load transport is evaluated and non-capacity and capacity models are compared for both aggradation and degradation cases with observed data. As characterized by its relative time scale, the adaptation of non-uniform bed load to capacity regime should be fulfilled quickly. However, changes in the flow and sedim ent inputs from upstream or tributaries hinder the adaptation. Also, the adaptation to capacity regime is size dependent, the finer the sediment size the slower the adaptation is, and vice versa. It is shown that the capacity model may entail considerable errors compared to the non-capacity model. For modelling of non-uniform bed load, non-capacity modelling is recommended, in which the temporal and spatial scales required for adaptation are explicitly appreciated.展开更多
Over the last several decades,various sediment transport capacity formulations have been used by geomorphologists and engineers to calculate fluvial morphological changes.However,it remains poorly understood if the ad...Over the last several decades,various sediment transport capacity formulations have been used by geomorphologists and engineers to calculate fluvial morphological changes.However,it remains poorly understood if the adaptation to capacity could be fulfilled instantly in response to differing inflow discharges and sediment supplies,and thus if the calculation of morphological changes in rivers based on the assumed capacity status is fully justified.Here we present a numerical investigation on this issue.The distance required for sediment transport to adapt to capacity(i.e.,adaptation-to-capacity length) of both bed load and suspended sediment transport is computationally studied using a coupled shallow water hydrodynamic model,in line with varied inlet sediment concentrations.It is found that the adaptation-to-capacity length generally decreases as the Rouse number increases,irrespective of whether the inlet sediment concentration increases or reduces.For cases with vanishing inlet sediment concentration a unified relationship is found between the adaptation-to-capacity length and the Rouse number.Quantitatively,the adaptation-to-capacity length of bed load sediment is limited to tens of times of the flow depth,whilst that of suspended sediment increases substantially with decreasing Rouse number and can be up to hundreds of times of the flow depth.The present finding concurs that bed load sediment transport can adapt to capacity much more rapidly than suspended sediment transport,and it facilitates a quantitative criterion on which the applicability of bed load or suspended sediment transport capacity for natural rivers can be readily assessed.展开更多
A depth-averaged quasi single-phase mixture model is proposed for debris flows over inclined bed slopes based on the shallow water hydrosediment-morphodynamic theory with multi grain sizes. The stresses due to fluctua...A depth-averaged quasi single-phase mixture model is proposed for debris flows over inclined bed slopes based on the shallow water hydrosediment-morphodynamic theory with multi grain sizes. The stresses due to fluctuations are incorporated based on analogy to turbulent flows, as estimated using the depth-averaged k-? turbulence model and a modification component. A fully conservative numerical algorithm, using wellbalanced slope limited centred scheme, is deployed to solve the governing equations. The present quasi single-phase model using four closure relationships for the bed shear stresses is evaluated against USGS experimental debris flow and compared with traditional quasi single-phase models and a recent physically enhanced two-phase model. It is found that the present quasi single-phase model performs much better than the traditional models, and is attractive in terms of computational cost while the two-phase model performs even better appreciably.展开更多
Large-scale landslide dams may block the river flow and cause inundation upstream, and subsequently fail and result in severe flooding and damage in the downstream. The need for enhanced understanding of the inundatio...Large-scale landslide dams may block the river flow and cause inundation upstream, and subsequently fail and result in severe flooding and damage in the downstream. The need for enhanced understanding of the inundation and flooding is evident. This article presents an experimental study of the inundation and landslide dam-break flooding over erodible bed in open channels. A set of automatic water-level probes is deployed to record the highly transient stage, and the post-flooding channel bed elevation is measured. New experimental data resources are provided for understanding the processes of landslide-induced flooding and for testing mathematical rivers models.展开更多
目的了解我国中老年人高血压发病情况,并探讨睡眠时间和睡眠质量与我国中老年人高血压发病率之间的关系。方法运用2011年和2015年中国健康与养老追踪调查数据(China health and retirement longitudinal study,CHARLS),共纳入45岁及以...目的了解我国中老年人高血压发病情况,并探讨睡眠时间和睡眠质量与我国中老年人高血压发病率之间的关系。方法运用2011年和2015年中国健康与养老追踪调查数据(China health and retirement longitudinal study,CHARLS),共纳入45岁及以上中老年6 047人。睡眠时间被定义为过去1个月平均每晚的实际睡眠时间,睡眠质量应用自编问卷进行评估。睡眠时间和睡眠质量对高血压发病率的影响采用多因素Logistic回归模型分析。结果经过4年随访,1 151人发生了高血压,累积发病率为19.03%。多因素Logistic回归模型分析结果显示,单纯睡眠时间异常或睡眠质量不佳均对高血压发病率无影响,在性别、年龄的亚组分析中结果保持不变。进一步研究不同组合的睡眠时间和睡眠质量与高血压的关系,结果显示睡眠时间和睡眠质量与高血压的联合效应差异均无统计学意义(均有P>0.05)。结论无充分证据显示睡眠时间和睡眠质量与我国中老年高血压发病率有关且年龄、性别对该相关性无影响。展开更多
The near field stahility and mixing characteristics of buoyant jets produced by thermal diffuse in quiescent shallow water are inw.stigated numerically to predict under what combinations of discharge and ambient chara...The near field stahility and mixing characteristics of buoyant jets produced by thermal diffuse in quiescent shallow water are inw.stigated numerically to predict under what combinations of discharge and ambient characteristics the near field will be stable or unstable, Analyses for different discharging types show that the discharge stability is purely dependent on the near-field hehavior of the jets, or the dynam ic interaction of the buoyant jet region, the surface impinge ment region and the internal hydraulic jump region, and is independent of the far-field geometry of the receiving water. The stability criterion is a function of the relative submerged depth, and source densimetrie Froude number.展开更多
Upwind algorithms are becoming progressively popular for river flood routing due to their capability of resolving trans-critical flow regimes. For consistency, these algorithms suggest natural upwind discretization of...Upwind algorithms are becoming progressively popular for river flood routing due to their capability of resolving trans-critical flow regimes. For consistency, these algorithms suggest natural upwind discretization of the source term, which may be essential for natural channels with irregular geometry. Yet applications of these upwind algorithms to natural river flows are rare, and in such applications the traditional and simpler pointwise, rather than upwind discretization of the source term is used. Within the framework of a first-order upwind algorithm, this paper presents a comparison of upwind and pointwise discretizations of the source term. Numerical simulations were carried out for a selected irregular channel comprising a pool-riffle sequence Jn the River Lune, England with observed data. It is Shown that the impact of pointwise discretization, compared to the upwind, is appreciable mainly in flow zones with the Froude number closer to or larger than unity. The discrepancy due to pointwise and upwind discretizations of the source term is negligible in flow depth and hence in water surface elevation, but well manifested in mean velocity and derived flow quantities. Also the occurrence of flow reversal and equalisation over the pool-riffle sequence in response to increasing discharges is demonstrated.展开更多
基金funded by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 51279144 and 11432015)Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZZD-EW-05-01-03)
文摘Mountain catchments are prone to flash flooding due to heavy rainfall. Enhanced understanding of the generation and evolution processes of flash floods is essential for effective flood risk management. However, traditional distributed hydrological models based on kinematic and diffusion wave approximations ignore certain physical mechanisms of flash floods and thus bear excessive uncertainty. Here a hydrodynamic model is presented for flash floods based on the full two-dimensional shallow water equations incorporating rainfall and infiltration. Laboratory experiments of overland flows were modelled to illustrate the capability of the model. Then the model was applied to resolve two observed flash floods of distinct magnitudes in the Lengkou catchment in Shanxi Province, China. The present model is shown to be able to reproduce the flood flows fairly well compared to the observed data. The spatial distribution of rainfall is shown to be crucial for the modelling of flash floods. Sensitivity analyses of the model parameters reveal that the stage and discharge hydrographs are more sensitive to the Manning roughness and initial water content in the catchment than to the Green-Ampt head. Most notably, as the flash flood augments due to heavier rainfall, the modelling results agree with observed data better, which clearly characterizes the paramount role of rainfall in dictating the floods. From practical perspectives, the proposed model is more appropriate for modelling large flash floods.
基金funded by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11172217 and 11432015)National Key Basic Research and Development Program (i.e., 973 Program) of China (Grant No. 2007CB714106)
文摘One of the largest known megafloods on earth resulted from a glacier dam-break,which occurred during the Late Quaternary in the Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia.Computational modeling is one of the viable approaches to enhancing the understanding of the flood events.The computational domain of this flood is over 9460 km2 and about 3.784 × 106 cells are involved as a 50 m × 50 m mesh is used,which necessitates a computationally efficient model.Here the Open MP(Open Multiprocessing) technique is adopted to parallelize the code of a coupled 2D hydrodynamic and sediment transport model.It is shown that the computational efficiency is enhanced by over 80% due to the parallelization.The floods over both fixed and mobile beds are well reproduced with specified discharge hydrographs at the dam site.Qualitatively,backwater effects during the flood are resolved at the bifurcation between the Chuja and Katun rivers.Quantitatively,the computed maximum stage and thalweg are physically consistent with the field data of the bars and deposits.The effects of sediment transport and morphological evolution on the flood are considerable.Sensitivity analyses indicate that the impact of the peak discharge is significant,whilst those of the Manningroughness,medium sediment size and shape of the inlet discharge hydrograph are marginal.
基金funded by the N atural Science Foundation of China (G rants No. 11172217, 51279144 and 11432015)Chinese Academy of Sciences (G rant No. KZZDEW -05-01-03)
文摘Rivers often witness non-uniform bed load sedim ent transport. For a long tim e, non-uniform bed load transport has been assum ed to be at capacity regime determined exclusively by local flow. Yet whether the capacity assumption for non-uniform bed load transport is justified remains poorly understood. Here, the relative time scale of non-uniform bed load transport is evaluated and non-capacity and capacity models are compared for both aggradation and degradation cases with observed data. As characterized by its relative time scale, the adaptation of non-uniform bed load to capacity regime should be fulfilled quickly. However, changes in the flow and sedim ent inputs from upstream or tributaries hinder the adaptation. Also, the adaptation to capacity regime is size dependent, the finer the sediment size the slower the adaptation is, and vice versa. It is shown that the capacity model may entail considerable errors compared to the non-capacity model. For modelling of non-uniform bed load, non-capacity modelling is recommended, in which the temporal and spatial scales required for adaptation are explicitly appreciated.
基金funded by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 11172217, 10932012 and 10972164)
文摘Over the last several decades,various sediment transport capacity formulations have been used by geomorphologists and engineers to calculate fluvial morphological changes.However,it remains poorly understood if the adaptation to capacity could be fulfilled instantly in response to differing inflow discharges and sediment supplies,and thus if the calculation of morphological changes in rivers based on the assumed capacity status is fully justified.Here we present a numerical investigation on this issue.The distance required for sediment transport to adapt to capacity(i.e.,adaptation-to-capacity length) of both bed load and suspended sediment transport is computationally studied using a coupled shallow water hydrodynamic model,in line with varied inlet sediment concentrations.It is found that the adaptation-to-capacity length generally decreases as the Rouse number increases,irrespective of whether the inlet sediment concentration increases or reduces.For cases with vanishing inlet sediment concentration a unified relationship is found between the adaptation-to-capacity length and the Rouse number.Quantitatively,the adaptation-to-capacity length of bed load sediment is limited to tens of times of the flow depth,whilst that of suspended sediment increases substantially with decreasing Rouse number and can be up to hundreds of times of the flow depth.The present finding concurs that bed load sediment transport can adapt to capacity much more rapidly than suspended sediment transport,and it facilitates a quantitative criterion on which the applicability of bed load or suspended sediment transport capacity for natural rivers can be readily assessed.
基金funded by Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants Nos.51279144 and 11432015)
文摘A depth-averaged quasi single-phase mixture model is proposed for debris flows over inclined bed slopes based on the shallow water hydrosediment-morphodynamic theory with multi grain sizes. The stresses due to fluctuations are incorporated based on analogy to turbulent flows, as estimated using the depth-averaged k-? turbulence model and a modification component. A fully conservative numerical algorithm, using wellbalanced slope limited centred scheme, is deployed to solve the governing equations. The present quasi single-phase model using four closure relationships for the bed shear stresses is evaluated against USGS experimental debris flow and compared with traditional quasi single-phase models and a recent physically enhanced two-phase model. It is found that the present quasi single-phase model performs much better than the traditional models, and is attractive in terms of computational cost while the two-phase model performs even better appreciably.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 50459001)
文摘Large-scale landslide dams may block the river flow and cause inundation upstream, and subsequently fail and result in severe flooding and damage in the downstream. The need for enhanced understanding of the inundation and flooding is evident. This article presents an experimental study of the inundation and landslide dam-break flooding over erodible bed in open channels. A set of automatic water-level probes is deployed to record the highly transient stage, and the post-flooding channel bed elevation is measured. New experimental data resources are provided for understanding the processes of landslide-induced flooding and for testing mathematical rivers models.
文摘目的了解我国中老年人高血压发病情况,并探讨睡眠时间和睡眠质量与我国中老年人高血压发病率之间的关系。方法运用2011年和2015年中国健康与养老追踪调查数据(China health and retirement longitudinal study,CHARLS),共纳入45岁及以上中老年6 047人。睡眠时间被定义为过去1个月平均每晚的实际睡眠时间,睡眠质量应用自编问卷进行评估。睡眠时间和睡眠质量对高血压发病率的影响采用多因素Logistic回归模型分析。结果经过4年随访,1 151人发生了高血压,累积发病率为19.03%。多因素Logistic回归模型分析结果显示,单纯睡眠时间异常或睡眠质量不佳均对高血压发病率无影响,在性别、年龄的亚组分析中结果保持不变。进一步研究不同组合的睡眠时间和睡眠质量与高血压的关系,结果显示睡眠时间和睡眠质量与高血压的联合效应差异均无统计学意义(均有P>0.05)。结论无充分证据显示睡眠时间和睡眠质量与我国中老年高血压发病率有关且年龄、性别对该相关性无影响。
文摘The near field stahility and mixing characteristics of buoyant jets produced by thermal diffuse in quiescent shallow water are inw.stigated numerically to predict under what combinations of discharge and ambient characteristics the near field will be stable or unstable, Analyses for different discharging types show that the discharge stability is purely dependent on the near-field hehavior of the jets, or the dynam ic interaction of the buoyant jet region, the surface impinge ment region and the internal hydraulic jump region, and is independent of the far-field geometry of the receiving water. The stability criterion is a function of the relative submerged depth, and source densimetrie Froude number.
基金Project supported by the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 50459001).
文摘Upwind algorithms are becoming progressively popular for river flood routing due to their capability of resolving trans-critical flow regimes. For consistency, these algorithms suggest natural upwind discretization of the source term, which may be essential for natural channels with irregular geometry. Yet applications of these upwind algorithms to natural river flows are rare, and in such applications the traditional and simpler pointwise, rather than upwind discretization of the source term is used. Within the framework of a first-order upwind algorithm, this paper presents a comparison of upwind and pointwise discretizations of the source term. Numerical simulations were carried out for a selected irregular channel comprising a pool-riffle sequence Jn the River Lune, England with observed data. It is Shown that the impact of pointwise discretization, compared to the upwind, is appreciable mainly in flow zones with the Froude number closer to or larger than unity. The discrepancy due to pointwise and upwind discretizations of the source term is negligible in flow depth and hence in water surface elevation, but well manifested in mean velocity and derived flow quantities. Also the occurrence of flow reversal and equalisation over the pool-riffle sequence in response to increasing discharges is demonstrated.