Author(s): Yassine Kaddi, Sebastien Proust, Jean-Baptiste Faure, François-Xavier Cierco

Linked Author(s): Sébastien Proust, Jean-Baptiste Faure

Keywords: Unsteady flow; Compound open-channel; Laboratory experiment; Improved one-dimensional model;

Abstract: This paper investigates the physical and numerical modellings of unsteady overbank flows in a compound open-channel, which consists in a main channel (MC) and one adjacent floodplain (FP). The experiments were performed in an 18 m long and 2 m wide flume. Simulations using the 1D code MAGE coupled with an improved one-dimensional (denoted as 1D+) method termed ISM (Independent Subsections Method, Proust et al. 2009) are compared to the experimental data. The originality of the ISM lies in its solving of the momentum conservation equation in each of the channel sub-sections (MC and FP). The ISM explicitly models the depth-averaged Reynolds stress at the MC/FP interface, and the transverse exchanges of mass and momentum by the mean flow between MC and FP. It also accounts for the upstream discharge distribution between MC and FP. As this method has been validated only for steady non-uniform flows, the present study aims at validating it under unsteady flow conditions. Hydrographs are injected at the flume entrance in the MC and FP, with 100 runs in order to compute ensemble averages of the flow parameters. The ratio of FP discharge to total discharge equals to 7 % at baseflow and 15 % at peakflow, while the ratio of FP flow depth to MC flow depth ranges from 0.14 to 0.30. It was found that the ISM could accurately predict the temporal variations in: (i) the flow depth along the flume; (ii) the depth-averaged streamwise and transverse velocities at the MC/FP interface; and subsequently (iii) the interfacial lateral discharge per unit length.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/38WC092019-1382

Year: 2019