| Title: | A Simultaneous Solution Approach for Coupled Surface and Subsurface Flow Modeling |
| Author: | Gunduz, Orhan ; Aral, Mustafa Mehmet |
| Abstract: | Coupled hydrologic modeling of surface and subsurface systems has gained a lot of popularity in the last two decades. Channel flow and groundwater flow models are coupled to obtain a better understanding of these hydrologic pathways in a watershed. In general, this coupling process is done in an iterative fashion until sufficient convergence is achieved for common parameters linking these different domains. In this study, we propose a new solution methodology based on the simultaneous solution of channel and groundwater flow. The method is based on the idea of solving a single global matrix at once rather than solving separate matrices for each flow domain and iteratively improving the solution. This new solution technique is tested by coupling a one-dimensional stream flow model that uses the complete form of the St. Venant equation with a two-dimensional vertically-averaged groundwater flow model. The proposed simultaneous solution approach provides a more efficient solution for this coupled flow problem and is superior to the approximate solution obtained through an iterative approach. |
| Type: | Report |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28712 |
| Citation: | Gunduz, O. and Aral, M. M. "A Simultaneous Solution Approach for Coupled Surface and Subsurface Flow Modeling," Multimedia Environmental Simulations Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Report No. MESL-02-03, 88p,February 2003. |
| Date: | 2003-04 |
| Contributor: | Georgia Institute of Technology. Multimedia Environmental Simulations Laboratory |
| Relation: | MESL-02-03 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Coupled hydrologic model
Simultaneous solution Dynamic wave channel flow Vertically-challenged groundwater flow |
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