Modeling of Hydrological Processes Using Unstructured and Irregular Grids: 2D Groundwater Application

被引:8
作者
Dehotin, J. [1 ]
Vazquez, R. F. [2 ]
Braud, I. [1 ]
Debionne, S. [3 ]
Viallet, P. [3 ]
机构
[1] Irstea, UR HHLY, F-69336 Lyon 9, France
[2] Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon CITA, CSIC, Unidad Suelos & Riegos, Zaragoza 50059, Spain
[3] HYDROWIDE, F-38600 St Martin Dheres, France
关键词
Hydrological processes; Groundwater flow modeling; Boussinesq equation; Heterogeneity; Unstructured grid; Finite volume; Gradient approximation; Flux approximation; FINITE-VOLUME SCHEMES; DISCRETIZATION; EUROPEEN; SYSTEM; SHE;
D O I
10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000296
中图分类号
TU [建筑科学];
学科分类号
0813 ;
摘要
To better handle landscape heterogeneities in distributed hydrological modeling, an earlier work proposed a discretization based on nested levels, which leads to fully unstructured modeling meshes. Upon such a discretization, traditional numerical solutions must be adapted, especially to describe lateral flow between the unstructured mesh elements. In this paper, we illustrated the feasibility of the numeric solution of the diffusion equation, representing groundwater flow, using unstructured meshes. Thus, a two-dimensional (2D) groundwater model (BOUSS2D), adapted to convex unstructured and irregular meshes was developed. It is based on the approximation of the 2D Boussinesq equation using numeric techniques suitable for nonorthogonal grids. The handling of vertical and horizontal aquifer heterogeneities is also addressed. The fluxes through the interfaces among joined mesh elements are estimated by the finite volume method and the gradient approximation method. Comparisons between the BOUSS2D predictions and analytical solutions or predictions from existing codes suggest the acceptable performance of the BOUSS2D model. These results therefore encourage the further development of hydrological models using unstructured meshes that are capable of better representing the landscape heterogeneities.
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页码:108 / 125
页数:18
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