Special Session on:
High-Dimensional Computational Modeling of Rivers and Streams

Conveners:

Marcelo Garcia, University of Illinois
Xiaofeng Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio

Description:

This session encourages contributions on all aspects of computational modeling of rivers and streams. Computational hydraulics has been broadly applied in navigation, flood control, erosion control, geomorphology, bridges and culvert at highway crossings, water qualities, etc. Despite the success and acceptability of one-dimensional modeling (e.g., HEC-RAS type routing), there are growing interests in modeling the hydraulics, morphology, and related riverine processes using high-dimensional models. Progresses and moderate success have been reported in recent years. However, due to the complexity of river systems (e.g., highly three-dimensional and turbulent in meandering bends and tidal channels, sediment laden flows, seasonal vegetations, movable boundaries, transient flash flooding, free surface capturing), there still exist tremendous technical, theoretical, and computational challenges in almost all aspects of high-dimensional computational hydraulics. It is also anticipated that the computational power required will increase dramatically and certain large simulations are only viable through parallel computation on high performance computers (HPC). Emerging technologies, such as cloud computing and GPU computing, will soon have a great impact. Submissions on both numerical model development and applications are welcome.

Papers and Abstracts:

Application of 3D numerical models in confluence hydrodynamics modeling
Dejana Đorđević

Effects of Self-Stratification on Turbidity Currents: A Large Eddy Simulation approach
Som Dutta, Carlos Pantano-Rubino, Mariano Cantero, Marcelo Garcia, Gary Parker

Validation of a 2D depth-averaged rigid-lid model against velocity measurements for a high-amplitude meandering flume
Roberto Fernandez, Davide Motta, Marcelo Garcia

Three dimensional Lagrangial model for fate and transport of Silver and Bighead Carp eggs
Tatiana Garcia, Marcelo Garcia

Modelling Hydro- and Morphodynamic Responses of River Training Structures
Fredrik Huthoff

Numerical Investigation of Density Current over Rough and Uneven Bottom
Yijiu Jiang, Xiaofeng Liu, Rusen Sinir

Simulation of Flow Field around and inside Porous Scour Protection with Physical and Realistic Particle Configurations from Computer Graphics
Xiaofeng Liu, Yijiu Jiang, Rusen Sinir

A History of Hydraulic Modeling at the Waterways Experiment Station
William Martin

3D-Numerical Simulation of The Flow in Pool and Weir Fishways
Hamid Shamloo, Shadi Aknooni

Three Dimensional Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Chicago River: Comparative Study between EFDC and Delft3D
Sumit Sinha, Marcelo Garcia

A Comparative Analysis of Kinematic Wave and SCS-Unit Hydrograph Models in Semi-Arid Watershed
Atiq U. Syed, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Steve Safferman, David Lusch, Jon Bartholic, and Larry J. Segerlind

Investigation of Parallel Scalability and Speedup for Computation of Stream Flow River Networks Made Out of Hundreds of Thousands of Reaches
Ahmad Tavakoly, Cédric David, David Maidment, Zong-Liang Yang

Lock-exchange gravity currents with small volume of release propagating over bottom-mounted obstacles
Talia Tokyay, George Constantinescu