Abstract
An accurate estimation of river channel conveyance capacity and the water exchange at the river-floodplain interfaces is pivotal for flood modelling. However, in large-scale models limited grid resolution often means that small-scale river channel features cannot be well represented in traditional 1D/2D schemes. As a result instability over river and floodplain boundaries can occur, and flow connectivity, which has a strong control on the floodplain hydraulics, is not well-approximated. A subgrid channel model (SGC) based on the local inertial form of the shallow water equations, which allows utilization of approximated sub-grid scale bathymetric information while performing very efficient computations has been proposed as a solution, and it has been widely applied to calculate the wetting and drying dynamics in river-floodplain systems at regional scales. Unfortunately, SGC approaches to date have not included latest developments in numerical solutions of the local inertial equations, and the original solution scheme was reported to suffer from numerical instability in low friction regions such as urban areas. In this paper, for the first time, we implement a newly developed diffusion and explicit adaptive weighting factor in the SGC model. An adaptive artificial diffusion is explicitly included in the form of an upwind solution scheme based on the local flow status to improve the numerical flux estimation. A structured sequence of numerical experiments is performed, and the results confirm that the new SGC model improved the model performance in terms of water level and inundation extent, especially in urban areas where the Manning parameter is less than 0.03 m−1/3 s. By not compromising computational efficiency, this improved SGC model is a compelling alternative for river-floodplain modelling, particularly in large-scale applications.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3291–3311 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Geoscientific Model Development |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 13 Jun 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research has been supported by UK Research and Innovation (grant nos. NE/V017756/1 and NE/S015795/1) and the Royal Society (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (grant no. WM170026)).
Funding Information:
Youtong Rong was supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC)–University of Bristol Joint PhD Scholarship Programme (grant no. 202006250032). Paul Bates is supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award and the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council (grant no. NE/V017756/1). Jeffrey Neal is supported by the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council (grant no. NE/S015795/1).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Youtong Rong et al.
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